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Climate Change in the Newspapers of Latin America = El tratamiento del cambio climático en la prensa latinoamericana

Buenos Aires: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS), Media and Democracy in Latin America Programme (2008), 22 pp., 22 pp.

Contains many illustrations, tables

Signature commbox: 200:10-Development 2008

"If it wasn't for the international conferences and reports on climate change, this issue would be practically absent from the regional media agenda. Its coverage does not even reach 1 percent of daily reports, as shown in a new study carried out by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation's Regional Program on Latin American Media and Democracy. Global News, an international media monitoring agency, collaborated in the study that compared the two largest ciruclation national newspapers in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela during a month. The main aspects discussed: the volumes published by the media, the main actors on the media agenda, how climate change is inserted in this context, the causes and effects of this phenomenon, the sources used, and the solutions proposed." (Page 2)