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Green to Greenbacks: Covering the Business of Climate Change |
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By alouis on
5/29/2008 12:36 AM
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Climate change is not all about looming disasters. It's also about business: There's money to be made in helping fight the effects of climate change under programs known as clean development mechanism. Just one element, carbon markets, generated trades worth $64 billion (or about Rs 2,560 billion). The Energy Resources Institute and the Knight International Journalism Fellowships Program of the International Center for Journalists organized a seminar for business and environment reporters and editors on this complex subject. The first program for the media in India on business aspects of climate change, the seminar featured academics as well as market, finance and business professionals. Indo-Asian News Service was the media partner for the event.
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What the media needs to better cover climate change |
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By alouis on
2/21/2008 11:13 PM
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Journalists at an Editors’ Consultation organized recently in New Delhi spoke about some of the problems they face covering climate change and made suggestions to help improve coverage. At the roundtable organized by ICFJ’s Knight International Journalism Fellowship and The Energy and Resources Institute, a leading international think tank on the environment, the journalists and global leaders involved in shaping climate change policies discussed the role and responsibility of media. The second part of the blog covers the journalists’ perspective.
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Global leaders on climate change discuss media’s role |
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By alouis on
2/21/2008 6:10 PM
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Experts who help shape policies on climate change around the world and journalists met at an Editors’ Consultation organized recently in New Delhi by ICFJ’s Knight International Journalism Fellowship and The Energy and Resources Institute, a leading international think tank on the environment. Yvo de Boer, UN's top climate change official; Rajendra K. Pachauri, head of the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and director of TERI, and Jeffery Sachs, special adviser to the UN Secretary General participated in a panel discussion with senior journalists.
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The Changers versus The Warmers |
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By alouis on
2/3/2008 6:39 AM
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Move over Hatfields and McCoys. It's the Changers and Warmers – as in Climate Change and Global Warming – who are having the big feud.
Is Global Warming the right name for the phenomenon now taking place or is Climate Change the more appropriate one? Is Change just a politically motivated, watered down term meant to lull people? Or is Warming an inadequate, too narrowly focused appellation?
It's a hotly debated subject and it is relevant for me in an unusually cold New Delhi while I prepare for a meeting of editors on – well, whatever is happening to the climate, the globe ... Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....
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Report from Bali: Getting developing country journalists to cover climate conference |
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By alouis on
12/12/2007 5:42 AM
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Barely 10 percent of the journalists covering the United Nations climate change conference were from the developing countries (if those from the host country were not counted). Yet these countries will bear the brunt of climate changes, and initiatives at the conference will affect them profoundly. A program launched by three organizations brought 33 journalist from 16 developing countries to the Bali conference so their audiences can make informed decisions about the issues.
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