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UN forum to boost reporters’ presentation on climate change

Nov 22, 2008 News

Millions of people at high risk from climate change will get vital information they need, thanks to an initiative that today named 40 journalists from 33 developing countries whom it will bring to the UN negotiations in Poznan, Poland, in December.
The Climate Change Media Partnership will provide the journalists with a two-week programme of support to boost the quality and quantity of media coverage of climate change in their home countries.
Some of the journalists are from highly vulnerable countries, such as Antigua, Bangladesh, Vietnam and Zambia. These countries urgently need to adapt to climate change.
Others are from emerging economies, such as Brazil, China, India and Indonesia. These will play a critical role in a new global deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stabilise the planet’s climate.
Research by the Climate Change Media Partnership shows that few journalists from such countries can afford to attend critical UN negotiations, and that media coverage of climate change in these countries is far from adequate.
The CCMP will ensure that journalists from the developing countries can report to their audiences at home, as Governments try to agree a global plan for addressing climate change.
The increased media presence will put governments under greater pressure than ever to negotiate a fair deal to replace the Kyoto Protocol by their 2009 deadline, says Mike Shanahan of the International Institute for Environment and Development.
In addition to daily briefings, the Poznan programme includes a day-long media clinic, expert editorial support, and a matchmaking service that connects journalists with interviewees, including scientists, government negotiators, activists, and indigenous people.
It means that millions of people in developing countries will get locally relevant information about what goes on at the UN summit, instead of having to rely on recycled reports from Western news agencies.
The Climate Change Media Partnership’s work in Poland has been funded by the UK Department for International Development, the V. Kann Rasmussen Foundation and the Germeshausen Foundation, the World Bank Institute for Sustainable Development, the Ashden Trust, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Ford Foundation.

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