Internews: Ending the Deathly Silence around Climate Change

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change, to Co-Host Internews Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen

"If we are to have any hope of reversing the effects of climate change, then we have a monumental task of educating the six billion people on our planet."

−Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, Nobel prize winner who will co-host Internews’ Earth Journalism Awards (more)

"What do we need to make the connections on climate change? Effective media infrastructure plays a vital role."

−Environmental Journalism Awards video (watch)

"We must end the deathly silence around this crisis. Those helping raise awareness through journalism should be praised for doing so."

− Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, founding partner of tcktcktck campaign (more)

Nobel Prize Winner on Climate Change to Co-Host Internews Earth Journalism Awards in Copenhagen

Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the Indian climate change scientist who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will co-host the Earth Journalism Awards ceremony in Copenhagen in December. Dr. Pachauri is recognized as one of the world’s greatest authorities on climate change. He is the director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute and has served as chairman of the IPCC since 2002.

"If we are to have any hope of reversing the effects of climate change, then we have a monumental task of educating the six billion people on our planet about how climate change works and what they can do to help. The media is critical in this effort, since just one reporter has the ability to reach thousands, even millions of people. These awards help to expand and honor these vitally important efforts," Dr. Pachauri said. (More)

International Climate Change Campaign tcktcktck Partners with Internews on Human Voices Award

Internews is partnering with the tcktcktck campaign, a movement backed by some of the world’s most recognized political leaders and non government organisations, to ensure that those already affected by climate change are heard by governments negotiating at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen this December. “Today, millions of people are already suffering because of climate change,” said Kofi Annan, President of the Global Humanitarian Forum, a tcktcktck founding partner. (more)

Columbia Journalism Review: Press Eyes Copenhagen

A Columbia Journalism Review article describes the needs for more incisive reporting on climate change, and cites Internews' projects to spur such coverage in the developing world as "perhaps the most interesting and effective of these efforts." The July 6 article by Curtis Brainard says, "The goal of both the CCMP and Earth Journalism Awards is to close the "information gap" in developing countries, which have been greatly underrepresented . . . at the United Nations climate summits and unfortunately reliant upon wire services for coverage." (Full article)

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