Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
The Yale Center for Environmental Communication, operating as the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication (YPCCC), is a research center within the Yale School of the Environment that studies public climate change knowledge, attitudes, policy preferences and behavior at global, national and local scales. It produces Yale Climate Connections, an editorially independent news service publishing web-based journalism and a daily radio segment carried on several hundred U.S. radio stations, along with a YouTube channel. The center receives no direct funding from Yale University, relying instead on foundations, alumni and public donations.
The program grew out of a 2005 conference on "Americans and Climate Change" convened in Aspen, Colorado, by the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (now the Yale School of the Environment), bringing together more than 100 national leaders from science, media, religion, politics, business and civil society to develop an engagement action plan. Anthony Leiserowitz founded YPCCC in 2007 after being hired by the school, and continues to direct the program. Major ongoing projects include Climate Change in the American Mind and the Yale Climate Opinion Maps, the latter developed in collaboration with the George Mason Center for Climate Change Communication. In 2017, the program received a "Friend of the Planet" award from the National Center for Science Education.
Director: Anthony Leiserowitz
Editor-in-Chief, Yale Climate Connections: Sara Peach
Address
195 Prospect St, New Haven, CT
Website
https://climatecommunication.yale.edu
Sources
Yale Program on Climate Change Communication. The Program
Yale Scientific Magazine. Into the Newsroom: The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication