International research co-ordination on media coverage of climate change for the Sustainability Initiative (OSI) of Oslo University's Centre for Development and the Environment where Paddy Coulter acts as communications advisor www.sum.uio.no
The Oslo Sustainability Initiative, funded by the Norwegian Research Council, is embarking on a four-year project "Overcoming limitations to creative adaptation in addressing climate change". Working in partnership with Chinese and African universities, the project will explore the shaping of responses to the climate challenge in the affluent West, the impoverished South and the rapidly emerging East.
An important empirical basis of the project will be in-country "stakeholder dialogues" between politicians, civil society organisations, industry and the media. Following a research methodology workshop held at Oslo University in June, research on how different national media are covering climate change is commencing on an internationally coordinated basis.