Today, the world’s attention is focused on COVID-19 and the threat it poses. And rightly so.
Across the globe, significant resources have been marshalled to tackle the health care, economic and social challenges posed by COVID-19. Over the past nine months, CNA has and will continue to play its part by providing accurate and timely news reporting to explain the latest developments on COVID-19 as well as its toll on society with clarity and compassion.
However, CNA also has its eye on an important long-term “existential” crisis - climate change.
A year ago, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong put climate change on the national agenda, describing it as “one of the gravest challenges facing humankind”. Noting that climate change defences are “existential for us”, he warned that this is a matter of “life and death”.
Against this backdrop, CNA is committing to significant and sustained coverage of climate change. In the coming months, CNA will strengthen our climate coverage. Today we are launching a section dedicated to climate change coverage on our website – cna.asia – and app.
We will be producing regular news reports, short features and long-form documentaries on the effects, defences and trade-offs of climate change across Asia for television and YouTube. Later this month, we will launch a podcast called The Climate Conversations on digital and CNA938.
You can access our enhanced climate change coverage at cna.asia/climatechange.
We will also work with like-minded organisations to provide open access to factual and contextual reporting on climate change.
Early next year, depending on the COVID-19 situation, we hope to host a CNA Leadership Summit on Climate Change which will give our audience access to some of the top Asian thought leaders in climate change. We hope that these efforts underline CNA’s commitment to quality environmental journalism, rooted in scientific fact.
Amid pockets of delusional denial, we will explain the science, as clearly as possible, for as wide an audience as possible. We will also explain the breadth of the impact of climate change.
Singapore cannot isolate itself from the effects of climate change. As global temperatures rise, sea levels will rise. Rainfall has become more intense in recent years and could overwhelm drainage systems and lead to flash floods. Climate change will impact biodiversity and alter ecosystems. Higher temperatures raise the spectre of vector-borne diseases, heat stress and will threaten global food security.
Climate change is not just an issue for future generations. It is happening today and it creates uncertainties and trade-offs for policy makers, companies and individuals.
Even as Singapore and the world at large set targets for action, e.g. in achieving net-zero emissions, we will track how countries and societies in Asia are managing in meeting these targets. We will celebrate the successes, but also draw attention to those who may face implementation challenges, tougher trade-offs or lag behind.
Amid these challenges, we will also spotlight innovations and breakthroughs from the adoption of alternative and clean energies to new green financing. CNA will seek out stories that tell of optimism, resilience and the ability of societies to adapt to climate change.
Most importantly, we will tell the stories of people. People who have been and will be affected. We will tell the stories of the most vulnerable, especially those in Asia and Southeast Asia.
Asia’s story on climate change is not just about sustainability. In some cases it is about survival. Where necessary, we will describe what is before us as we see it - a crisis. A climate crisis.
We invite you to continue to read, watch and listen to CNA, as we embark on this multi-year commitment to covering climate change.
Walter Fernandez, Editor-in-Chief, Mediacorp
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2020-08-03 00:12:19Z
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