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Climate change communication in Australia

The Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub researches and implements best practice approaches to communicating climate change, in partnership with leading science and media organisations.

Our projects

Our impact-focused projects aim to improve public understanding of climate change by delivering climate information to audiences through existing media infrastructure.

Our research

Our research investigates public attitudes towards climate change, how the media reports on climate change, and how Australia currently engages and could further engage with climate science.

Our team

The academic and professional members of the MCCCRH are committed to building climate literacy in Australia

Our partners

The MCCCRH works with a broad range of partners from television networks and local newspapers to other universities.

Keep up to date with the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub's latest news and updates.

Monash University news

The Climate Crisis - A Different Lens documentary series

Monash University has released a new video on the Climate Crisis featuring our Director David Holmes.

The Hub establishes a node in Malaysia

Monash University news

The Hub is excited to announce that a node of MCCCRH will be established in Malaysia.Through this partnership we will be working with our colleagues in the School of Arts and Social Science and the School of Science at Monash Malaysia to research climate communications in Southeast Asia.

Edward Elgar publishes Research Handbook in Communicating Climate Change, edited by MCCCRH Director & postdoc

The MCCCRH is delighted to share that Edward Elgar’s Research Handbook on Communicating Climate Change has just been released, edited by our wonderful director, A/Prof David Holmes & our fabulous postdoctoral research fellow, Dr Lucy Richardson.

MCCCRH named finalists in Premier's Sustainability Awards

The MCCCRH has been named as a finalist in the Education category of the Premier’s Sustainability Awards for our work establishing 25 hyperlocal climate columns in Leader Community News in 2019, a project funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.
Tennis player retires from Aus Open qualifier after coughing fit

Climate change could make January too hot for Australian Open, scientists say

Republished from ABC News - Posted 20 Jan 2020, 5:17pm

Climate scientists say the Australian Open could become too dangerous to play in the peak of Melbourne's summer and have proposed moving the major to a cooler month.
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