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In 2022, the Global Center on Adaptation partnered with Thomson Reuters Foundation to train 12 multimedia journalists on reporting the impacts of climate change, and locally led efforts to address them. The training sought to expand coverage of local climate impacts, and locally led efforts to deal with them.

“We made a desert and called it development.”

Watch Award-winning journalist P. Sainath's lecture during the 2022 training, on why climate change is a human rights and survival issue, the dangers of climate apartheid, and the role of journalists in reporting the local impacts of climate change with sensitivity. "The people you hope to cover have a wealth of knowledge and information that is not to be scoffed at," he reminded trainees, while sharing stories and experiences of journalists writing on climate-related issues for the People's Archive of Rural India.

P. SAINATH EXPLAINS THE ROLE OF JOURNALISTS IN REPORTING LOCALLY LED ADAPTATION

Lecture by P. Sainath - Reporting on Locally Led Adaptation: Training for Journalists

“Lack of local engagement and leadership can lead to failed or less effective adaptation investments.”

SALEEMUL HUQ EXPLAINS THE HISTORY AND RATIONALE OF LOCALLY LED ADAPTATION.

Lecture by Saleemul Huq - Reporting on Locally Led Adaptation: Training for Journalists

2022 TRAINEES

2022 GUEST SPEAKERS