Monash CliComm

A slightly different take on the warming stripes for Day 🟦​⬜​​🟥​

👕Ahead of Show Your Stripes Day tomorrow, the team donned their stripey wardrobes to help mark a day dedicated to making climate change visible, accessible and easier to talk about.

🌡️ The warming stripes transform more than a century of global temperature data into a striking visual story with cool blues shifting to deep reds as our planet has warmed. They are a powerful reminder that simple climate communication can help build understanding and connect people to the changes happening around us.

🌏📰 Supporting climate reporting across Indonesia and Australia

Last week, the Hub hosted two days of knowledge-sharing workshops in Melbourne bringing together Indonesian and Australian journalists, climate scientists, climate communication experts and researchers.

These workshops were part of our 'Supporting climate reporting in Indonesian newsrooms' project, conducted in collaboration with the The Australia-Indonesia Centre and funded by the Australia-Indonesia Institute.

Across the two days, participants came together to discuss:

🌡️ The current state of the climate and projections for the future
🗣️ Approaches for effective climate communication
⚠️ How to tackle mis- and dis-information
📖 How Australian journalists approach climate and energy storytelling
🛠 Systems and processes required for effective international collaboration on climate reporting
🇮🇩 Local Indonesian climate research case studies
🧩 Constructive journalism approaches that leave audiences with solutions

The research team are headed to Makassar this week to present findings from the broader research study. This knowledge will shape the tools and approaches required for scientifically-grounded, timely journalism that meets the needs of local communities.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and contributed to the conversations.