Climate Change Advert
An advert highlighting the effect of global warming, designed by a cabaret singer, was shown on Sky News and all other Sky channels from 26 November 2009, in the run up to the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.
Zac Bauman, 35, won a Sky News’ climate advert competition in which entrants were asked to pitch a 30-second TV advert to inspire people to reduce their carbon emissions. His idea was based on a disaster movie trailer with a twist at the end. The final caption reads, "This is not a movie. This is real". The competition was judged by Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change Ed Miliband MP, Friends of the Earth Executive Director Andy Atkins and Sky News Executive Editor Chris Birkett.
Copenhagen
The competition was launched as the countdown to the crucial Climate Conference got underway. Sky News’ Holly Williams was in Copenhagen for the United Nations Climate Change Summit providing extensive coverage. Throughout the conference, Sky News Correspondents around the world also reported on how climate change could affect some of the planet’s poorest communities. Find out more about the Copenhagen Summit
Antartic Expedition
Sky News’ Africa Correspondent Emma Hurd undertook an Antarctic Expedition with a team monitoring the continuing melting of the polar ice cap and its potentially devastating effect on global water levels, habitats and wildlife. RTS Television Journalist of the Year Alex Crawford, meanwhile, travelled to Nepal to report on the fastest retreating glacier in the Himalayas.
On the 10, 11 and 12 December, Sky News presented ` Turning Up The Heat’, which saw Anna Botting anchoring from Mumbai, a city whose emissions are set to increase as its population continues to rise, and Andrew Wilson reporting from Brazil; a key player in the block of developing countries involved in climate change negotiations.
Sky Rainforest Rescue
Every minute, an area larger than three football pitches is lost in the Amazon forest. With 20 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions created by deforestation, world leaders are trying to find a way of making the forests worth more alive than dead. Andrew was in the western-Brazilian state of Acre, the home of Sky’s Rainforest Rescue project which aims to tackle deforestation. More information visit: www.sky.com/rainforestrescue (opens in a new window)