Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and The Third Pole (TTP) were awarded a mandate by the Climate Change Division (CCD) of Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation under Indian Himalayas Climate Adaptation Programme (IHCAP), to sensitize journalists on climate change trends in the Himalayan region, as well as orient them about effective reporting on climate change issues, case studies and sustainable development for the mountain communities.
Under the mandate, four capacity building workshops for media on climate change and development in the Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) were organized jointly by CEE and TTP under IHCAP, with support from Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India. The workshops were conducted in the states of Himachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Jammu & Kashmir and Assam, during the period between March 15, 2014 and December 14, 2015. The intention was to cover the entire Himalayan Range - Western, Central and Eastern. It was decided to conduct a workshop in Sikkim also as the state is strategically important for India, lying astride the shortest route from India to Tibet.
Overall 74 journalists from print, television, radio and online media and 51 resource persons and organisers attended the workshops. The duration of each workshop was three days, with the first and last day assigned to in-house sessions - presentations, interactive talks/discussions and group work, while the second day was kept aside for field visits.
CEE - Himalaya Initiative conducted a one day workshop for media in the context of Science Express Climate Action Special visiting the Indian Himalayan Region, with support from Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), under its Indian Himalayan Climate Action Programme (IHCAP). Hosted by the Department of Environmental Sciences of the University of Jammu, and the Press Club of Jammu, the workshops were designed for equipping educators on climate change and on orienting media for climate change reporting. Organised and conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Environment Education and Training, Jammu & Kashmir, and the Press Club of Jammu, the workshop was held in Jammu. A large group of media persons representing broadcast media (television and radio), print and online news attended the workshop.
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