25 | The new environmental agendas: between politics, news and society

The decisions that shape the day-to-day of a country's environmental portfolios are framed within a scale of agendas that span national, regional, and global levels. In addition to the existence of agendas exclusively focused on environmental issues, the truth is that the theme is, fortunately, increasingly transversal to all sectors (primary, secondary and tertiary), requiring the collective construction of a path towards sustainability.

In reality, the policies that concretize these agendas and their potential materialization "on the ground" end up going unnoticed by the public that is less disposed to bureaucracy and more attentive to its effects in their lives. There is a need to investigate how knowledge and information can and should be transferred from what is written in the policies to concrete national cases, which can be illustrated in the news media, and thus understandably reach civil society.

What path do these agendas follow between their origin and the individual? What consequences and opportunities are brought about by the Strategies, Policies, Pacts, Decades and other epithets that designate guidelines for the measures taken in favor of the environment? What stands out in Portugal, in Europe and in the world? Have the Portuguese kept up with international developments?

"The new environmental agendas: between politics, news and society" will be the motto of the third roundtable of the Environmental Journalism Week. On Wednesday, May 25, join us and the panel composed of representatives from the political spectrum, media and sociology.

Luís Ribeiro                         Leonídio Paulo Ferreira

José Alho                             Luísa Schmidt