Write your best climate change story and get an opportunity to join and cover COP21
While climate change is a global phenomenon, it is hitting the
world’s poorest regions - and most marginalized communities - the
hardest. These changing conditions are impacting human health, economic
activity, and are threatening basic human rights including access to
water and food security. Climate change is already affecting local
communities in low and middle income countries but stories on the
negative impacts as well as on the solutions that governments,
communities and individuals are implementing often get lost in the
global climate change debate.
UNDP story telling contest on climate change aims to contribute to
raising public awareness on the negative impacts of climate change on
people and communities as well as on the opportunities and solutions
seen in actions by individuals and governments in vulnerable developing
countries.
The contest provides young journalists in developing countries a
unique opportunity to contribute to the global debate on climate change
in the run-up to COP21, while building their capacity, and providing
recognition for excellence. Authors of the top two stories will be
funded to attend and cover COP21.
Target Group
We target journalists 35 years of age and under from developing countries vulnerable to the impact of climate change who:
- Are already engaged in public writing through an official media outlet
- Have a strong interest in reporting on climate change as a
contribution – locally and internationally – towards greater public
awareness on this critical global topic
- Are eager to seize an opportunity to build their journalistic capacity and contribute to COP21
Timeline of the Campaign
The contest was launched on August 27th. The deadline to submit an entry is October 11th 2015, with early submission encouraged. Following selection, different stories will be published every day from 2nd to 29th November. The two winning journalists will cover the climate conference in Paris.
