South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change

South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change

Centre for Science and Environment
Core 6A, Fourth Floor, India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road
New Delhi, India

August 27-28, 2009


Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) invites you to attend a South Asian Media Briefing Workshop in New Delhi on the subject of climate change: its science, impacts, mitigation strategies, politics and global negotiations.

Participation at the Workshop is open to active journalists, including freelancers, from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

What will the Workshop give you

First-hand information on and understanding of the subject straight from the key women and men in the field – the national negotiators, policy-makers, climate change experts, and civil society representatives.
Opportunity to interact with them, and to interview them; opportunity to also meet editors and journalists covering the subject in other South Asian nations.
Guidelines and information to prepare you for the forthcoming global meets on climate change, including the Copenhagen summit in December.
Participation

There are only 30 seats for the Workshop. Interested journalists can apply through e-mail or fax on the format provided below.
There is no participation / registration fee. CSE offers to support the travel and accommodation of all selected participants. But to avail of this sponsorship opportunity, interested journalists must apply immediately.
Selection of the participants will be done by CSE on a first come-first served basis. The cut-off date for receiving applications is July 20, 2009.

For more information contact:
Souparno Banerjee, Coordinator
Media Resource Centre
Centre for Science and Environment
41, Tughlaqabad Institutional Area, New Delhi-62, India
Cellphone: 099108 64339
Land phones: 91-11-29956399, 29953394, 29951124 Fax: 91-11-29955879
E-mail: souparno@cseindia.org, Website: www.cseindia.org