Her får du muligheten til å delta på KLIMAPRESS 2026 – en årlig konferanse om klimajournalistikk med utgangspunkt i de nordiske landene
Læs på dansk: KLIMAPRESS 2026: Klimajournalistik i Norden
Les på svensk: KLIMAPRESS 2026: Klimatjournalistik i Norden
Les på engelsk: KLIMAPRESS 2026: Climate Journalism in the Nordics
Klima er og fortsetter å være viktig dekningsområde for journalistikk. Likevel er medienes klimadekning skjøvet i bakgrunnen til fordel for krig, opprustning og andre globale konflikter.
Hvordan kan klima komme tilbake på dagsordenen? Hvordan dekker vi krisen sterkere, mer inspirerende og engasjerende i konkurranse med andre tema?
Hva fungerer ifølge medieforskningen? Hvilken rolle spiller aktører som selskaper og aktivister i klimaspørsmål, og hvordan dekker mediene disse aspektene?
Dette er de sentrale spørsmålene på KLIMAPRESS 2026 – en ny nordisk konferanse om klimajournalistikk.
Blant foredragsholderne er tidligere EU-klimakommissær Connie Hedegaard samt grunnleggeren av den britiske NGO-en Climate Outreach, George Marshall.
Konferansen ble arrangert for første gang i Oslo i fjor. Nå er turen kommet til København. Den finner sted 22. og 23. oktober på DMJX’ campus og byr på foredrag, paneldebatter og parallel sessions.
Aarhus Universitet, Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøgskole (DMJX) og Nordisk Journalistcenter (NJC) er arrangører og medfinansiører av konferansen og oppfordrer journalister, redaktører og medieforskere til å møtes for å utvikle klimajournalistikken i Norden.
På konferansen vil journalister og medieforskere i og utenfor Norden dele erfaringer og diskutere hvordan klimastoffet kan behandles i en tid der det internasjonale samarbeidet er under press – samtidig som klimaet fortsetter å sette rekorder.
Som i fjor vil en fagjury deler ut priser for den beste klimajournalistikken i Norden – nominér senest 1. september.
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Les mer: Nominasjon KLIMAPRESS 2026 – nordisk klimajournalistikk
Arrangører: Avdelingen for medievitenskap og journalistikk ved Aarhus Universitet, Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøgskole og Nordisk Journalistcenter
Program (in English)
Please note: Unless otherwise stated, all presentations in the program are in English
Thursday, October 22:
9:00 Arrival, coffee and small-talk
9:30 Welcome by Julie Sommerlund, rector at The Danish School of Media and Journalism
9:40 Plenary talk 1: What are major companies actually doing about climate change – and how do the media cover it? By Connie Hedegaard (board member of Danfoss, BBVA, the Villum Foundation, and several other organizations)
As the former European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard has insight into the climate initiatives and strategies of major international companies. She will discuss how companies approach climate action and the considerations behind their efforts, as well as offer her perspective on how the media cover climate issues.
10:30-11.30 Parallel Sessions:
Session 1: Covering Energy Transitions in a European Context — by Boris Schneider (Clean Energy Wire, Berlin)
Boris Schneider is European Programme Manager at Clean Energy Wire (CLEW), he is at the centre of the team’s international and cross-border activities: spotting new partnership opportunities across the continent, sharpening CLEW’s European portfolio, and coordinating the weekly flagship ‘Dispatch from…’ newsletter. He is going to discuss how CLEW’s approach of anticipating societal frictions informs their daily work – and how this helps to bridge gaps between scientific knowledge and public understanding, to build trust in the information ecosystem and to pre-bunk disinformation.
Session 2: Hidden success stories? Why some companies choose not to talk to the media about their climate efforts – by Line Schmeltz (DMJX)
Line Schmeltz is an Senior Associate Professor at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX). Drawing on her research, she will explore “greenhushing” – when companies deliberately avoid communicating their climate efforts in the media for fear of public backlash and accusations of greenwashing.
Anette Maria Christensen is an Executive ESG Advisor at Give Steel A/S, a Danish manufacturer of structural steel, operating on the European. The company considers itself a first mover on several ESG initiatives within their industry in Europe, and is continuously working on ESG initiatives across several areas. However, the company is cautious about communicating its efforts within sustainability in the media, as the complexity of the field can lead to errors and misunderstandings when the issues are reported and communicated in the medias. With new EU requirements on sustainability communication, this issue is more relevant than ever.
Session 3: Short inspirational local stories from climate journalist (former NJC participants) — led by Professor Andreas Ytterstad (Oslo Met University)
Elin Fjellman is a reporter at Sydsvenskan. She is trained as both a journalist and a political scientist, with a focus on climate change policy. Since 2021, she has covered climate and environmental issues from a south-western Skåne perspective. Among many other topics, she has reported on COP conferences, activism, coastal erosion along the Skåne coastline, water scarcity, and the impact of the fashion industry.
Sofia Bergström Nielsen is a reporter at Trelleborgs Allehanda, where she partly covers climate and environmental issues. She will discuss the challenges of reporting on these topics in local media. To capture readers’ interest, she reports on issues such as car dependency in small towns, green hydrogen, carbon capture and storage (CCS), and coastal property insurance. She has also written a master’s thesis on Swedes’ experiences of flood catastrophes.
12:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Plenary Panel: Meet New Researchers — led by Associate Professor Henrik Bødker (Aarhus University)
Sophie Ysholt Hansen (University of Southern, Denmark)
Sophie Ysholt Hansen is a PhD student at the University of Southern, Denmark) and will speeak on green narratives: Potentials and Pitfalls in Constructive Narrative Climate Journalism. Climate change challenges traditional journalistic logics. It is abstract, complex, and marked by uncertainty, while coverage is often bleak, conflict-driven, and sensational. Drawing on her project on constructive narrative climate journalism, she will explore how narrative elements such as proximity, immersion, and identification can interact with constructive perspectives and pathways for action to foster motivation and engagement. And what pitfalls arise if problems are oversimplified, or does journalism lose its critical edge?
Ingerid Salvesen (Oslo Met University, Norway)
Ingerid Salvesen is a PhD student at Oslo Met University, Norway and will speak on how to engage young audiences. Ingerids current research examines whether and how news media shape engagement with and public connection to climate change among Norwegian youth. Combining different mediated public connection frameworks, her study shows why news media often fail to connect young people to climate change as a public issue. She also proposes practice-oriented recommendations.
Nelli Jäntti-Tuominen (Tampere University, Finland)
Nelli Jäntti-Tuominen is a PhD student at Tampere University, Finland and will talk on Newsworthiness and Media Framing of Climate Protests. Climate protests have had to conform to the newsworthiness criteria of journalism by creating spectacles that attract coverage. In the case of disruptive protests, this has often resulted in negative attention and focus on confrontations with the police. This presentation presents findings of her research on the framing of climate protests in Finland, the use of sources in news coverage, and the kinds of actions that have attracted positive portrayals.
14:15-15:00 Parallel Sessions:
Session 1: Crafting Future Narratives — by journalist Sofie Hviid (Klimajournalisterne)
Sofie Hviid is a journalist at Klimajournalisterne. In this session she will – together with her colleague Søren Bjørn Hansen – discuss how to craft a narrative about the future using journalistic methods. And to what journalists can tell stories about uncertain future scenarios without compromising their journalistic ethics. These questions are explored based on Sofie and Bjørn’s experiences from making their recent future-focused podcast Domino Effekten.
Session 2: Working with constructive journalism — by Gerd Maria May, head and founder of Room of Solutions
Gerd Maria May is a Danish journalist, author and founder of Room of Solutions. She develops new approaches to climate journalism, including a research-based project with SDU, TV 2 Fyn and Fyens Stiftstidende that explores how journalism can engage audiences who often avoid climate news. She also leads “RYK Klimaet”, engaging thousands of young people in climate journalism and public debate, and develops formats for Denmark’s national “Klimafolkemøde”.
Session 3: How to cover COP31 in Turkey in November – by journalist Otto Lerche (Dagbladet Information)
Otto Lerche shares his experiences of covering COP26 and COP27. He also provides examples of stories from genres beyond traditional news journalism, such as reportage. Participants in the session who also have experience covering COP conferences are very welcome to contribute advice, as well as tips and tricks.
15:00 Coffee
15:30 Plenary talk 2: Climate change journalism as and beyond science communication – by Sabrina Vitting-Seerup (Assistant Professor Copenhagen University):
Sabrina Vitting-Seerup is assistant professor at the Unoversity of Copenhagen. She will discuss how climate journalism usually is filed under one of two headings: science reporting or political coverage. But what if it could do more? Climate journalism can help us imagine the futures we are heading towards, and the ones we could still choose. It can show what sustainable lives actually look like, without drowning audiences in sustainability fatigue or feeding them infantilising hope. Drawing on science communication research and constructive journalism, this keynote explores how climate journalism can do more than explain the crisis: it can help societies find their way through it.
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: Activists and NGOs: The battle for a place in the media and political decision-making – by George Marshall (strategic communications consultant, founder of Climate Outreach)
For decades, British climate campaigner George Marshall has been an active participant and prominent voice in the climate debate, with a background in grassroots movements and NGO networks. He will analyse how the role of activists and NGOs in climate action has evolved, and how media coverage of these actors has developed over time.
10:30-11:30 Parallel Sessions:
Session 1: Covering Green Conflicts — by Associate Professor Mikkel Fugl Eskjær (Aalborg University)
Mikkel Eskjær is associate professor, Aalborg University in Copenhagen where he researches environmental communication. He will examine how environmental conflicts have evolved over time, increasingly becoming so-called green-on-green conflicts in which different environmental concerns (climate change, sustainability, biodiversity) clash with one another.
Session 2: Climate activists – voices of citizens and political actors? — by Associate Professor Julie Uldam (Copenhagen Business School)
Julie Uldam is an Associate Professor and researcher at Copenhagen Business School (CBS). She will present findings from her research into the relationship – or lack of it – between companies and climate activists, and discuss what this means for media coverage.
Amanda Büchert has been involved in activist and NGO networks in Denmark for many years. She has also founded a grassroots media outlet focusing on stories about climate action. She will share her experiences of how the media cover climate activism and discuss how activists position themselves in the wider climate debate.
Session 3: Journalism education & climate literacy — by Associate Professor Mette Stentoft (DMJX)
What should all (future) journalists learn about climate and environment – regardless of their beat? And how can educators and professionals navigate the challenges of ‘second hand’ climate anxiety? These are some of the questions addressed by Mette Stentoft, associate professor at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX) and one of the driving forces behind the school’s new mandatory course on climate journalism.
12:00 Closing Event: Summary and presentation of next year’s event.
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Farewell
Støtte og samarbejde
NJC har modtaget støtte til denne konference fra Demos-programmet, der administreres af Nordisk kulturkontakt i Helsinki på vegne af Nordisk Ministerråd.
