Hope and action in times of climate pessimism

19.Oct - 19. Oct, 2023 Cod. W05-23

Dialogue between Matt McGrath and Caty Arévalo.

Description

Journalists Caty Arévalo (EFE) and Matt McGrath (BBC), who have been reporting on climate change for more than two decades, will talk about the growing and increasingly visible impacts of global warming, along with reasons for hope.

Can we be in time to stop the worst consequences of climate change? What does science tell us? What are we seeing on the streets and in the political sphere?

McGrath and Arévalo will look at the solutions that are being launched in different parts of the world and at all levels to tackle climate change, and they will give their views on what each of us can do individually to help tackle the greatest challenge facing humanity.

 

TIMETABLE OF THE ACTIVITY

from 18:00 to 19:00

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Activity directed to

  • All public
  • University student
  • Students not from university
  • Teachers
  • Professionals

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Program

19-10-2023

18:00 - 19:00

“HOPE AND ACTION IN TIMES OF CLIMATE PESSIMISM“

  • Caty Arévalo Martinez | Journalist and communicator expert in environment
  • Matt McGrath | Environment correspondent for BBC News

Speakers

Caty Arévalo Martinez

Journalist and communicator expert in environment

Caty Arévalo is a journalist and communicator expert in environment. For almost two decades she has covered the main events in this field at national and international level as environmental correspondent of the EFE Agency. In parallel, she has been a researcher and author of publications on climate change communication at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she was part of the Knight Science Journalism program in the 2013/14 academic year, and at the Reuters Institute of the University of Oxford. Her career in communication and dissemination of knowledge of environmental issues has been recognized, among others, with the BBVA Foundation Award for Biodiversity Conservation. rom 2018 to 2021 she led the communication of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, from where she contributed to promote the social debate on the need to move towards a new development model. She is currently an advisor to the Presidency of the Senate of Spain.

Matt McGrath

Environment correspondent for BBC News

Matt McGrath began his career working as a technology magazine editor. In 1997 he joined BBC Radio 5 as a science and technology specialist, and in 2006 he became the BBC's science and environment reporter, before taking up the position of environmental correspondent in 2012, which he continues to do today. Between 2010-2011, he spent time at the MIT after winning the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship, the most prestigious fellowship in the field of science and environmental journalism. As an environmental reporter, he has covered a wide range of topics, from the commercialisation of the first genetically modified foods to scientific reports and climate change summits, an issue he considers to be of utmost importance, along with the biodiversity crisis. His journalistic output, through online and TV channels, is a reference for millions of people around the world seeking rigorous information on global environmental issues. In 2019, he was awarded the first Biophilia Environmental Communication Award, conceived by the BBVA Foundation, for his exceptional contribution to improving public understanding and awareness of environmental challenges through his ability to communicate complex environmental.

Venue

Miramar Palace

Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián

Gipuzkoa

43.3148927,-1.9985911999999644

Miramar Palace

Pº de Miraconcha nº 48. Donostia / San Sebastián

Gipuzkoa

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