{"id":33422,"date":"2025-01-16T20:10:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=33422"},"modified":"2025-01-16T20:12:03","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T19:12:03","slug":"how-can-i-contribute-to-informing-the-public-about-the-issue-of-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2025\/01\/16\/how-can-i-contribute-to-informing-the-public-about-the-issue-of-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How can NSOs contribute to informing the public about climate change issues."},"content":{"rendered":"

NSIs play a crucial role in informing the public about climate change issues, as they are a trusted source of data<\/strong> and information. The basic principle of their functioning is independent and impartial provision of data<\/strong> on economic, demographic, social and environmental topics. In today's world, where unverified information and disinformation are spreading, their role in providing reliable statistics on climate change is particularly important.<\/p>\n

The publication identifies several ways in which NSIs can contribute to informing the public:<\/p>\n

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  1. Publishing relevant and high-quality statistics:<\/strong> In addition to data on greenhouse gas emissions, the NSI should also provide other types of climate statistics, for example on the impact of climate change on health, the economy, or biodiversity.<\/li>\n
  2. Simplifying data access and interpretation:<\/strong> NSIs should publish data in a comprehensible form, supplement it with explanatory comments and visualizations, and use plain language.<\/li>\n
  3. Active communication with the public:<\/strong> NSAs should proactively reach out to the public through press releases, environmental reports, interactive websites and social media. It is also important to organize educational activities for schools and universities to raise awareness about climate change and relevant statistics.<\/li>\n
  4. Cooperation with the media:<\/strong> Journalists play a key role in communicating information to the public. NSIs should provide them with the necessary support, for example through specialized service lines and press releases focused on current issues.<\/li>\n
  5. Taking into account the needs of different user groups:<\/strong> NSIs should publish information in a variety of formats and at different levels of detail to meet the needs of the general public, experts, and journalists.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The publication emphasizes that NSOs must be responsive to user needs<\/strong> and regularly evaluate their experience with data access<\/strong>Only in this way can they ensure that their work is relevant and helps raise public awareness of the issue of climate change.<\/p>\n

    In addition to the points above, it is important that the N\u0160U cooperated with other actors<\/strong> in the field of climate change, such as government agencies, research institutions and non-governmental organizations. This collaboration will help ensure that the public has access to comprehensive and reliable information on climate change and its impacts. Spring<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

    Glossary<\/h3>\n
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    • Climate change adaptation:<\/strong> Adapting to current or expected impacts of climate change to reduce damage and take advantage of potential opportunities.<\/li>\n
    • Greenhouse gas emissions inventory:<\/strong> Systematic recording of greenhouse gas emissions from various sources and their removals within a given area and time period.<\/li>\n
    • Climate finance:<\/strong> Financial resources intended to support climate change mitigation and adaptation measures.<\/li>\n
    • Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs):<\/strong> Individual country plans setting out their climate change mitigation commitments under the Paris Agreement.<\/li>\n
    • Paris Agreement:<\/strong> The 2015 global climate change agreement aims to keep the increase in global average temperature well below 2\u00b0C compared to pre-industrial levels.<\/li>\n
    • Residence principle:<\/strong> Recording greenhouse gas emissions based on the economic activity of resident units in a given national economy.<\/li>\n
    • Territory principle:<\/strong> Recording greenhouse gas emissions based on their release in a given area.<\/li>\n
    • SEEA:<\/strong> Environmental and economic accounting system.<\/li>\n
    • Just transformation:<\/strong> A transition to a low-carbon economy that is socially just and ensures that no one is left behind.<\/li>\n
    • Climate change mitigation:<\/strong> Reducing greenhouse gas emissions or increasing their removals to mitigate climate change.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      NSIs play a crucial role in informing the public about climate change issues, as they are a trusted source of data and information. The basic principle of their functioning is the independent and impartial provision of data on economic, demographic, social and environmental topics. In today's world, where unverified information and disinformation are spreading, their role in providing reliable statistics on climate change [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adaptacia-na-zmenu-klimy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}