Now you can participate in KLIMAPRESS 2026 – an annual conference on climate journalism with a particular focus on the Nordic countries.
Read in Swedish: KLIMAPRESS 2026: Klimatjournalistik i Norden
Read in Danish: KLIMAPRESS 2026: Klimajournalistik i Norden
Climate is, and will remain, important for journalists to cover. Yet media coverage of climate has been pushed into the background in favor of war, armament and other global conflicts. How can we get climate back on the agenda? How do we cover the crisis in a more powerful, inspiring, and engaging way? What works, according to media research? And what role do actors such as companies and activists play in climate issues, and how do the media cover these aspects?
These are the key questions at KLIMAPRESS 2026 – a new Nordic conference on climate journalism.
Among the speakers are former EU Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard and George Marshall, founder of the British NGO Climate Outreach.
The conference took place for the first time in Oslo last year. Now it is Copenhagen’s turn, where the conference will be held on 22 and 23 October at DMJX’s campus and will feature joint sessions with keynote speakers, panel debates, and workshops.
The Department of Media Studies and Journalism at Aarhus University, the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX), and the Nordic Journalism Centre (NJC) are organizing and co-funding the conference and inviting journalists, editors, and media researchers to come together to develop climate journalism in the Nordic region.
At the conference, journalists and media researchers from across the Nordic region and beyond will share their experiences and discuss how climate issues can be covered at a time when international cooperation is under pressure – while the climate continues to break records.
As last year, a professional jury at the conference will award prizes for the best climate journalism in the Nordic region.
Read more: Nominations for the KLIMAPRESS 2026 Award – Nordic climate journalism
Program (in English)
Thursday, October 22:
9:00 Arrival, coffee and small-talk
9:30 Welcome
9:40 Plenary talk 1: Connie Hedegaard (OECD, EU and more)
10:30 Parallel Sessions:
Covering Energy Transitions in a European Context — led by Boris Schneider (Clean Energy Wire, Berlin)
Covering Industries — led by Docent Line Schmeltz (DMJX)
Short inspirational local stories from the 3-5 climate journalist (former NJC participants) — led by Professor Andreas Ytterstad (Oslo Met University)
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Plenary Panel: Meet New Researchers — chaired by Associate Professor Henrik Bødker (Aarhus University)
Sophie Ysholt Hansen (University of Southern, Denmark)
Ingerid Salvesen (Oslo Met University, Norway)
Mikaela Wikström Ruona (Umeå University, Sweden)
Nelli Jäntti-Tuominen (Tampere University, Finland)
14:00 Parallel workshops
Challenges and potentials of long-form journalism — led by journalist Michaela Cavanagh
Working with constructive journalism — led by Gerd Maria May, head and founder of Room of Solutions
Journalism education & and the environment — led by Mette Stentoft (DMJX)
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Plenary talk 2: Sabrina Vitting-Seerup (Assistant Prof. Copenhagen University): “Climate change journalism as and beyond science communication”.
16:30 Reception and price ceremony
18:30 See you tomorrow
Friday, October 23:
9:00 Coffee and small-talk
9:30 Plenary talk 3: George Marshall (Climate Outreach)
10:30 Parallel Workshops
Covering Green Conflicts — led by Associate Professor Mikkel Fugl Eskjær (Aalborg University)
Covering Activism — led by George Marshall (Climate Outreach)
11:30 Closing Event: Summary and presentation of next year’s event.
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Farewell
Støtte og samarbejde
NJC har modtaget støtte til dette kursus fra Demos-programmet, der administreres af Nordisk kulturkontakt i Helsinki på vegne af Nordisk Ministerråd.
