IMS and COP15
In connection with the global UN meeting on climate change, the COP15 in Copenhagen from 6-18 December 2009, IMS engaged in collaboration with other international media development, advocacy and support organisations to raise awareness about the dangers facing environment journalists in countries across the world.Archive
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- Living the green dream
- Call to Action for better protection for environmental journalists
- Call to Action to protect environmental journalists
- Press briefing: threats to climate change reporting
- Vote for the world's best climate change story
- Supporting media during global conference on climate change in Copenhagen
Syrian journalists: COP15 an eyeopener
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Climate change issues were boosted in Syrian media during COP15 thanks to three Syrian journalists who took part in the climate change conference upon invitation from IMS
- Climate change has not received much attention in my country, says Dalia Haidar, journalist for Syria Today and Al-Watan. Speaking from the conference hall, she and two other journalists from Syria have come to Copenhagen to cover the UN Conference on Climate Change for their respective media.
As a means to offer more journalists the opportunity to follow the negotiations first hand, IMS Media Cooperation Programme for the Arab World and Iran funds the visit of the Syrian guests during their stay in Copenhagen. Over the course of ten days, Dalia Haidar, Ibrahim Hamidi, bureau chief in Syria for the Pan-Arab newspaper Al Hayat and Khaled Ismael, journalist at Radio Syria Alghad join up with IMS at the conference hall to follow briefings and meting with delegations, and they join a field trip to the island of Samsoe, which is reknowned for its zero CO2-emission energy production scheme.
In their own words, Dalia Haidar and Ibrahim Hamidi share their impressions from the climate change conference in Copenhagen. Click on the window to play the video.
Ibrahim Hamidi:
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