WACC partner awarded UN Climate Change Media Fellowship

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WACC partner awarded UN Climate Change Media Fellowship

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By Teresia Mutuku, Communications Officer and Web Manager, WACC

The Director of the Centre for Communication and Development (CCD), a WACC project partner in Bangladesh, is among 40 outstanding journalists from 26 developing nations who will participate in this year’s Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP) fellowship Programme.

G M Mourtoza, who is also the Editor of Radio Desh, the first news based online radio of Bangladesh, is one of the two journalists from the country to have received this significant fellowship.

Over 600 journalists had applied for the fellowship programme organized by the CCMP partners Internews, Panos, and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) along with numerous regional groups.

The nine month long fellowship include an intensive two-week programme reporting on the historic UN Climate Change Conference which takes place in Copenhagen, Denmark, 7-18 December this year. The journalists will take part in interview sessions with leading climate change experts and negotiators.

The programme creates an opportunity for journalists to report in depth on the negotiations at the UN climate change summits and share their stories with millions of people around the world. The CCMP fellows at the past two UN climate summits, in Indonesia and Poland, produced over one thousand climate-change stories for media worldwide.

WACC is increasingly concerned about the issue of climate change as a matter of social justice requiring radical and rapid global response. It is pleased that the role of communication in promoting greater awareness on climate justice is being realized through the CCMP fellowship programme.

WACC continues to alert its members and wider constituency about the issue of climate justice through a web page dedicated to resources on climate-related issues. On World Environment Day, 5 June 2009, WACC issued a statement urging communicators and faith communities to study the issue of climate change and to demonstrate crucial leadership to combat threats to the environment and to advance climate justice (See full statement)

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