Social Dimensions of Climate Change Seminar Series BBL: Communicating the Social Dimensions of Climate Change

January 22, 2009  |  12:00 – 1:30pm  |  MC2-800
* * Box Lunches will be provided on a first come, first served basis * *

Description:
This afternoon seminar will examine, through lively discussion, various opportunities for and challenges of effectively communicating climate change from the perspectives of a varied panel of film-makers, journalists, academics and World Bank Group staff.   Box lunches will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Panelists:
Mathieu Mazza is a Washington-based videographer and president of NewsGroup Communications. He has shot and produced award-winning documentaries and series that have aired on the History Channel, Planete, PBS National and on networks in more than twenty countries. NewsGroup's clients include the World Bank Group, Reuters Television, APTN, CBC, MTV, Entertainment Tonight and the State Department, for whom he covered the Afghan refugee story at the beginning of the Afghan war.

Edward Maibach is Director of the Center for Climate Change Communication at George Mason University (Fairfax, Virginia) and a highly experienced public health and social change professional in the field of communication. His work over the past 25 years has helped define the fields of public health communication and social marketing, and his book, Designing Health Messages: Approaches from Communication Theory and Public Health Practice, is widely used by academics and practitioners alike.

Lisa Friedman is Deputy Editor Climate Wire, a web-based daily that covers climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. Juliet Eilperin is a correspondent for the Washington Post. Both have years of experience communicating climate change to a political audience and are well respected journalists on Capitol Hill.

 

For more information about this seminar, please contact Megumi Makisaka at mmakisaka@worldbank.org