Press briefing: Covering Climate Now helps us understand the tyranny of the immediate in global conflicts

Covering Climate Now takes us into the world's war zones to help us understand how the tyranny of the immediate distracts us from the hard realities of climate change.The group, an organisation set up by journalists, for journalists, most recent "press briefing' was entitled: "War and Climate Change".The group says: "War and climate change are intertwined in ways that journalists need to understand. Violent conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, and elsewhere are not only causing terrible human suffering, they are feeding the climate crisis."War — and military operations in general — have a massive carbon footprint that is often overlooked, partly because militaries’ emissions are excluded from limits imposed under UN climate agreements. Not only does conflict contribute emissions, but extreme weather and other climate impacts can kindle armed conflict — both within nations as people from drought-stricken rural communities migrate to cities and between nations. Perhaps most challenging for journalists is that, when guns and bombs are killing people, that necessarily grabs headlines, but also edges out climate change on the news agenda."