Deadline: 9-Sep-22
The Climatetracker is accepting applications for Grants on Just and Sustainable Energy Transition to promote energy transition reporting in Southeast Asia.
Benefits
- Selected fellows will benefit from:
- Solid understanding of energy transition in Southeast Asia
- Hands-on skills from reputable senior journalists and experts
- Grants to fund your on field reporting and publication
- Establish your profile in the energy, renewables, environmental, and just transition
- Network with like-minded journalists across the region.
What you will do with the Grant?
From September-November 2022, you will get training and be mentored by journalists and experts on a just transition who will help you polish your pitch, deepen your knowledge about energy transition, and improve your reporting about the topic.
- Some story examples to inspire you:
- Asian Development Bank’s Energy Transition Mechanism in the Philippines
- Just transition measures to support ex-workers in fossil fuel industries in Indonesia
- Challenges in transitioning to renewable energy in Malaysia.
Eligibility Criteria
They are looking for 10 teams of journalists. You must apply as a team with another journalist from your country. She/he can be from the same or different media outlet.
- They encourage that either you or your teammate be a journalist that:
- living and working outside KL, Jakarta, and Manila, or
- from a minority identity or language group, or
- under 25 years of age.
Note: Intermediate understanding of English will be helpful as training will be conducted in English, as well as communication with other fellows. But fellows will produce and report stories in their own language of respective publication/outlet.
For more information, visit https://climatetracker.org/grants-on-just-and-sustainable-energy-philippines-indonesia-malaysia/