Panos South Asia and Climate Change

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Panos South Asia and Climate Change

• November 1999, Tough Terrain (Media report on
  mountain issues). Two reports on climate change
  in the Himalayas, viz, i) Feeling the Heat
  (global warming) ii) Into Thin Air (glacier
  melting).
• May 2004, Environment for All. Some of the
  reports touched upon the issues of climate change
  and its impact (like coastal erosion).
• October 2004, Disputes Over the Ganga. Some of
  the reports tried to look at the Ganges water
  basin management issues in Bangladesh, India and
  Nepal from climate change perspectives (like
  floods).
• 4. June 2006, On the Brink, desperate energy
  pursuits in South Asia. Reports looked at energy
  pursuit (fossil fuels) and climate change issues
  in South Asian countries.

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Media, ICT and Climate Change?

• Online Media Campaign on Climate Change(project
  conceptualized and proposed)
• The projects goal is to facilitate online media
  campaignon
• climate change in South Asia. Specific project
  objectives
• are
• To facilitate access to information/knowledge on
  climate change (CC) and role of media for
  advocating prevention/mitigation/adaptation of
  CC
• To build the capacity of media practitioners in
  South Asia to practice online media campaigning
  on climate change and
• To facilitate the practice of online media
  campaigning on climate change.

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• The planned activities of the project are
• Organizing a consultative interface between the
  various CC related actors (I/NGOs. Donors,
  governments, multilaterals etc) and the role of
  media in climate change
• Organizing a training to build their capacity for
  South Asian media practitioners on application of
  ICTs for online campaigning on climate change
  and
• Creating an online platform for online media
  campaign on climate change.