Deadline: 12 August 2016
Climate Tracker is currently inviting applications for its South Asia Adaptation Conference with an aim to highlight adaptation to climate change in South Asia in the face of keeping global temperature below 1.5 degrees of warming.
The main goal is to publish an article about this, highlighting the actions or the problems that their region is facing.
Climate Tracker aims to send best Trackers to the first Climate Tracker conference to train them about climate journalism and advocacy.
The campaign will start the 1st of August by opening a publishing window. Applicants can publish their best article from the 1st to the 12th of August. Applicants have to write an awesome piece about Adaptation in 1.5 degrees in South Asia. And then publish it in a place where it will have a great impact across the region.
Benefits
- The 15 best writers will be chosen to attend the Climate Tracker conference in Sri Lanka from the 14th to the 16th of October, and receive a personal and innovative training to improve their skills on climate advocacy and journalism.
- Applicants will receive lectures from the Climate Tracker team and other facilitators and experts on issues related to climate change, journalism and advocacy.
- After learning those skills, applicants will implement them by joining the 5th Asia Pacific Climate Change adaptation forum and writing pieces with the rest of the team from there.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants that are between 18 and 35 years old, but applicants are encouraged to apply anyway if they do not fulfill this requirement.
How to Apply
Interested applicants have to find a news site, blog, newspaper, magazine themselves that are willing to publish their articles.
Eligible Countries: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives,
For more information, please visit South Asia Adaptation Campaign.