Projects

Global Governance, Global Justice

Global Climate Coverage Program 2026

Pine Forest Media’s 2026 climate coverage focuses on five interconnected areas where science, policy, and lived experience intersect most clearly — and where public understanding is most urgently needed.

Science Speaks @ AUP

Environmental knowledge is not static. It is produced through teaching, debate, interpretation, and time.

Science Speaks centers academic and interdisciplinary work as a public practice, creating space for scientists, scholars, artists, and communicators to share ongoing research rather than simplified conclusions

This agenda item focuses on:

Research as process, not outcome
Interdisciplinary ways of knowing
Universities as civic spaces
Science communication beyond headlines

Ocean Action

Oceans connect climate systems, biodiversity, food security, and global economies, yet ocean governance often feels distant from everyday life.

Coverage around the Our Ocean Conference examines how marine science informs international commitments — and how those commitments translate into action for coastal communities, researchers, and practitioners.

Key questions include:

How ocean science enters policy
Who benefits from ocean governance
Where commitments meet reality
How local action informs global frameworks

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Desertification and the Science of Intervention

Land degradation and water scarcity affect livelihoods worldwide. This focus area explores the scientific and technical tools being developed to respond.

Reporting around the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification focuses on intervention itself — how solutions are designed, tested, and experienced on the ground.

This agenda explores:

Restoration and drought resilience
The limits of technocratic solutions
Local knowledge and implementation
Who defines success, and why

Biodiversity Under Pressure

Biodiversity loss is one of the three pillars of the triple planetary crisis, yet it receives the least sustained attention.

Coverage around the Convention on Biological Diversity COP17 centers ecosystems and species often sidelined in climate discourse, examining how biodiversity is measured, valued, and governed.

This focus highlights:

Species loss beyond climate metrics
Conservation politics and trade-offs
Links between biodiversity and resilience
Why biodiversity remains politically invisible

Global Governance, Global Justice

Climate decisions are negotiated globally but lived locally — often unevenly.

Coverage around international climate negotiations intentionally examines how lived experience, community knowledge, and scientific evidence make their way (or fail to) into global political spaces.

This agenda asks: