New Internet-TV-broadcast with guests from the climate caravane

On december 7  the independant internet-TV-newscast Kontext started with a pilot broadcast on the UN climate summit in Copenhagen.

Guests from Germany, the UK and Latin America were invited to the studio in Berlin, among them two participants of the international climate caravane from Geneva to Copenhagen: Camila Moreno from the Global Forest Coalition / Friends of the Earth Brazil and Alexandra Almeida from Oil Watch / Accion Ecologica, Ecuador.

The broadcast also features the well-known climatalogist Hartmut Grassl from Hamburg, Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition-Town-movement, Tina Löffensend from Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) and Ines Koburger, activist with the Climate Justice Action network.

The guests speak about the controversies concerning marked-based mechanisms such as carbon trade, Clean Development Mechanism and REDD, about climate depts, oil drilling and new propositions from Latin America – and about grassroots alternatives such as transition towns.

Kontext is a project for an independent one-hour newscast inspired by US-based Democracynow! It wants to provide a platform for independent voices from Germany, Europe and abroad who are rarely heard in corporate or public media, offering profound background information in the form of interviews and discussions beyond the usual three minute bits.

Kontext doesn‘t air advertisements and is independent of advertisers, governments, political parties, and corporations.

The project has been initiated by the  news reporter, radio feature author and investigative journalist David Goessmann and by the author, playwright and media activist Fabian Scheidler.

The broadcast is online under www.kontext-tv.de

It can be embedded as video or audio podcast.