Climate Change Media Partnership invites applications for the 2009 fellowship programme for journalists in developing countries who report on climate change. Forty journalists will be awarded fellowships which will give them skills training including editorial mentoring by senior environment editors, networking with other environmental journalists from around the world, and accessing experts through a matchmaking service with hundreds of key climate experts. The fellowships will include attending the United Nations Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen, Denmark. Women journalists are particularly encouraged to apply.

Working with the deadline of December 2009 set by governments from around the world to agree on a new treaty for addressing climate change, the CCMP intends to involve journalists from across the global South in a programme of activities over several months, including reporting on the summit. Here, in addition to receiving training and mentoring, they will take part in a media clinic and interview sessions with leading climate change experts and negotiators. In preparation for the summit, the partnership will commission articles and run a regional workshop at the pre-Copenhagen climate change negotiations in Bangkok, Thailand, beginning in late September. The programme is organised by the CCMP partners Internews, Panos, and the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), along with numerous regional groups. This year the programme funding consortium is led largely by a grant from EuropeAid. The CCMP is seeking additional financing to expand the number of journalists it can bring to Copenhagen.

Click here for more information and to apply.

Click here to read about previous winners.


Click here to view video interviews of previous winners.

Email from Rod Harbinson to The Communication Initiative on May 20 2009; and the CCMP website accessed on May 27 2009.