Deadline: 16-Oct-22
Are you a journalist interested in covering climate adaptation? With a solutions journalism angle and a hands-on approach, if yes then participants will be equipped to better cover the challenge of climate change locally and globally.
Thomson Reuters Foundation’s programme offers an excellent opportunity for journalists to improve the level of coverage on climate adaptation efforts and to raise awareness of an issue that will be at the centre of the stage in the next UN climate conference, COP27, in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
As efforts accelerate in the lead-up to COP27 in November, increasing attention will be placed on climate change adaptation and making good on commitments from COP26 in Glasgow, which called for doubling adaptation finance from US$20 billion to US$40 billion per year.
Adaptation to climate change is urgent. It involves policies and measures to minimise potential damages from a warmer world. Consequences are already being observed worldwide, especially in developing countries. Nearly half the world’s population is already highly vulnerable to climate impacts, such as water shortages, heat stress, flooding and spread of diseases, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
At the end of the programme, you will be able to:
- Describe climate change and its impacts in your country, and the gaps and challenges to adaptation action;
- Focus on solutions to impacts of climate change generated and implemented by local communities;
- Identify and work with new sources of information on climate change;
- Translate the jargon around climate change into accessible language;
- Find new angles for story ideas and set guidelines for high-impact news and features;
- Report on COP27 with a better understanding of the issues at stake and of the way climate COPs work.
Eligibility Criteria
- Journalists with experience or strong interest in climate change, sustainability, public policy, and/or human rights.
- Please submit a story idea – what would you ideally like to cover at COP27?
- Applicants must be based in Africa (priority countries: Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe).
- Applicants must be full-time journalists or regular contributors for media organisations with a minimum of three years’ professional experience.
- Participant must have a high proficiency level of spoken and written English.
- Applicants must have access to a minimum internet speed of 8 MB/second.
- Applicants must commit to participate for the whole duration of the programme.
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