Climate Change TV

{{Short description|Broadcaster dedicated to climate change issues}}

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Climate Change TV is the world’s first online broadcaster dedicated entirely to climate change issues.{{cite web |title=Climate Change TV |url=https://www.climate-change.tv |accessdate=10 April 2020}} It contains interviews from heads of state, government officials and negotiators, NGO's, Civil Society and business professionals with a range of views on the climate change negotiations.

It is hosted by Responding to Climate Change,{{cite web|url=http://www.rtcc.org/|title=RTCC - Responding to Climate Change|work=RTCC}} an NGO and Official Observer{{cite web|url=http://unfccc.int/adaptation/nairobi_work_programme/partners_and_action_pledges/items/5005.php?detail=j&id=261&nwp=org&dirc=DESC&seite=2&anf=25&organisation=4®ion=§or=&del_activity=&work_area=&cl_hazard=|title=Nairobi work programme (NWP): Partners, Action Pledges and Experts Database|author=United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change|date=10 February 2011|publisher=}} to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

RTCC provides a daily news and analysis service following latest developments in climate policy,{{Cite web |url=http://www.rtcc.org/policy/ |title=Policy | RTCC |access-date=2012-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120529132359/http://www.rtcc.org/policy/ |archive-date=2012-05-29 |url-status=dead }} research{{cite web|url=http://www.rtcc.org/learning/|title=Research|work=RTCC|access-date=2012-05-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120525114510/http://www.rtcc.org/learning/|archive-date=2012-05-25|url-status=dead}} and other aspects of the climate debate. In February this year they submitted a series of proposals{{Cite web |title=RTCC: Durban Platform submission |url=https://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2012/smsn/ngo/140.pdf |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=unfccc.int}} to the UNFCCC on raising the ambition of the Durban Platform, which had been agreed at COP17.

The Studio{{cite web |url=http://www.rtcc.org/unfccc-videos/ |title=UNFCCC Videos | RTCC |accessdate=2012-05-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415181020/http://www.rtcc.org/unfccc-videos/ |archivedate=2012-04-15 }} is run for the UNFCCC at the annual COP. The interviews are hosted on RTCC and the UNFCCC's studio portal.{{Cite web |url=http://unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/items/6528.php |title=Climate Change Studio - 1 December | Durban Climate Change Conference - November 2011 |access-date=2012-05-28 |archive-date=2012-05-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513155258/http://unfccc.int/meetings/durban_nov_2011/items/6528.php |url-status=dead }}

It provides for one-on-one video interviews with a wide array of stakeholders from civil society, intergovernmental organizations and party delegates. The studio provides a platform for discussing the effects of climate change, causes of global warming and possible solutions. It continues at COP17/CMP 7 after successfully running at COP15/CMP 5 in Copenhagen, and COP16/CMP 6 in Cancun.

At COP17, held in December 2011, the Climate Change TV Studio was visited by UNFCCC Chief Executive Christiana Figueres,{{cite web | url=http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/unfccc-videos/unfccc-chief-figueres-on-women-and-climate-change/ | title=UNFCCC chief Figueres on women and climate change }} lead Netherlands negotiator Maas Goote,{{cite web | url=http://www.rtcc.org/climate-change-tv/maas-goote-lead-dutch-negotiator/ | title=Maas Goote, lead Dutch negotiator }} and UK Minister for energy and climate change Greg Barker, along with members of Oxfam and 350.org.

Climate Change TV conducted interviews during COP29, which was held in Baku, Azerbaijan.{{Cite web |date=April 22, 2025 |title=COP29 in Baku |url=https://www.climate-change.tv/category/meeting/un-cop29 |access-date=April 22, 2025}}