Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) is going to hold a three-day workshop on titled "Framing responses: Journalist workshop on climate change impacts and challenges", which will start from March 20 in Islamabad. The journalists from South Asia will be trained by the environmental scientists and climate change experts on how to report on climate change and its impact on the country and the region.
The workshop is designed by LEAD Pakistan in collaboration with Heinrich Böll to bring together journalists from Pakistan and India. The workshop will be facilitated by environmental scientists and climate change experts from other parts of the world. The purpose of the workshop is to discuss how climate change can affect South Asian region and what can be done at a local and possibly a regional level through media awareness and action planning at micro and meso level.
Through a participatory learning approach, the participants will be sensitised on climate change issues and challenges. Training will include activities such as interactive talks/discussions, presentations, group work, case studies, role plays, videos and field visits.
Briefing journalist about the workshop at LEAD House, Chief Executive Officer Ali Tauqeer Sheikh has said that media in regional countries like India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives was well aware of climate change and its impact on their countries but Pakistan was lagging behind in its coverage of climate change issues because the media focuses more to cover the issues about politics, extremism and terrorism.
"Journalists in Pakistan are not aware of the science behind climate change so they do not report on climate change and its impacts on the country and region, while our focus of the workshop is to tell them that climate change is a reality and we have to learn how to cope with it," Sheikh underlined.
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