COP30 Climate Change Media Partnership Reporting Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 15, 2025

Applications are open for the COP30 Climate Change Media Partnership Reporting Fellowship 2025. The Climate Change Media Partnership (CCMP), led by Internews’ Earth Journalism Network (EJN) and the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, is happy to announce the COP30 CCMP Reporting Fellowship Program for journalists inquisitive about protecting the thirtieth United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP30). Hosted this yr by Brazil, the convention is scheduled to happen within the metropolis of Belém from November 10-21, 2025, with the World Leaders’ Summit on November 6-7.

Now in its 18th iteration since its launch in 2007, the CCMP has introduced greater than 500 journalists from low- and center-revenue nations to attend and report on the annual UN local weather talks. This has enabled journalists from world wide to cowl the local weather negotiations for his or her home audiences, whereas benefiting from working alongside educated media trainers and gaining a multifaceted understanding of how nations are responding—or failing to reply—to local weather change’s international affect.

Fellowship

In-person CCMP Fellows will journey to Belém to attend the UN local weather negotiations in November 2025, with particular arrival and departure dates to be decided. Fellowship help consists of: 

• Operational and logistical help: The CCMP will cowl non-refundable economic system-class airfare, lodging, meals, journey medical insurance coverage and floor transportation prices associated to Fellowship participation. Organizers may even facilitate the press accreditation course of and supply logistical help regarding the journey. Note that the method of acquiring any mandatory visas is the guy’s particular person duty, although the CCMP will reimburse visa prices.
• Accommodation: Given the uncertainties round lodging, candidates needs to be snug with the opportunity of shared housing.
• Financial help: Selected fellows can be supplied a small stipend to offset the price of meals and different incidental bills associated to the fellowship.
• Reporting sources and editorial help: Fellows can be guided by EJN trainers, who’re senior journalists with expertise protecting UN local weather summits. Prior to the beginning of COP30, fellows will obtain informational sources and technical help to assist put together for reporting on the convention, together with a pre-COP digital workshop to satisfy the trainers, focus on reporting alternatives, and ask any questions. Once in Belém, fellows will take part in an in-individual orientation session with seasoned local weather journalists and consultants on the important thing points at this COP and specifically designed actions on the bottom, together with day by day briefings and 1-1 discussions with mentors. They could have entry to a Trello board for ease of entry to sources on-the-go and be part of a gaggle chat to share data, focus on and ask questions on a protected and safe platform. Fellows may even be inspired to hunt suggestions from EJN trainers on story concepts and drafts all through the fellowship.
• Opportunities for interviews: Fellowship organizers will organize group interviews with excessive-stage officers and material consultants.
• Opportunities for networking: Fellows can be inspired to attend networking mixers with different journalists and take part in cohort-constructing actions together with group meals and/or native excursions. Selected fellows might also be invited to take part as audio system or moderators at official and/or unofficial aspect occasions happening through the summit.

CCMP digital fellows will cowl the COP remotely from their home nations and can take part in program actions totally on Zoom. Fellowship help consists of: 

• Financial help: Virtual fellows can be supplied with a communications stipend to make sure they can preserve a steady web connection all through the fellowship.
• Reporting sources and editorial help: Fellows can be guided by an EJN coach, who’s a senior journalist with expertise protecting UN local weather summits. Prior to the beginning of COP30, Fellows will obtain informational sources and technical help to assist put together for reporting concerning the convention, together with a pre-COP digital workshop to satisfy the coach, focus on reporting alternatives, and ask any questions. The CCMP will present entry to livestreams, recordings, and different sources to allow digital fellows to look at COP proceedings and report successfully just about. Fellows will take part in different specifically designed digital actions, together with common briefings and 1-1 discussions with mentors. They could have entry to a Trello board for ease of entry to sources on-the-go and be part of a gaggle chat to share data, focus on and ask questions on a protected and safe platform. Fellows may even be inspired to hunt suggestions from EJN trainers on story concepts and drafts all through the fellowship.
• Opportunities for interviews: Fellowship organizers will organize group interviews with excessive-stage officers and material consultants on Zoom when potential.

Eligibility

To be eligible for the fellowship, the applicant should: 

• Be an expert journalist from or representing a longtime media home and reporting from a low-and center-revenue nation.
• Must not have attended a COP earlier than—both self-funded or as part of a fellowship.
• Those making use of for the in-individual fellowship should be accessible and keen to journey to Belém to attend COP30 in individual.
• Have a superb command of the English language.
• Have earlier expertise reporting on local weather change points and clearly point out the sorts of tales you would possibly pursue through the convention.
• Commit to take part in all fellowship actions.
• Share an up-to-date resume/CV.
• Share a video, not more than 2 minutes in size, explaining what you’ll be reporting on at COP30.
• Provide a letter of help from an editor, producer, or supervisor who can affirm that your information stories can be revealed or broadcast in a longtime media outlet. Freelancers are welcome to apply however should present a signed letter of help from a media outlet for which they intend to report, which commits to publishing the tales they produce as part of this fellowship. Applicants ought to rigorously contemplate their chosen outlet’s attain, article format, viewers and publication schedule to make sure it aligns with the rigorous and quick-paced nature of reporting from COP30.
• Provide current, related and journalistic work samples on local weather change matters that had been revealed between 15 July 2024 to fifteen July 2025, which may be uploaded as paperwork or internet hyperlinks. Stories needs to be centered on particular local weather change matters related to the applicant’s nation—broad or basic tales can be much less aggressive. Stories may be in any language so long as they’re accompanied by a brief English synopsis.

Judging Criteria

They are in search of candidates who:

• Have demonstrated expertise protecting local weather change, local weather coverage and different environmental matters;
• Have reported just lately on local weather change and might present two work samples centered on local weather change themes that had been revealed within the final yr;
• Have developed a transparent and nicely-researched reporting plan for the COP, together with potential story concepts. Review previous COP programmes and agendas and guarantee your reporting plan is as particular and detailed as potential;
• Are capable of present an estimated variety of tales they’ll produce through the Fellowship;
• Have a relationship with a longtime media home and a signed letter of help from an editor agreeing to publish or broadcast work produced on the COP.

The CCMP additionally considers the necessity to assemble a various cohort of journalists from various kinds of media homes, mediums and geographies. 

Application

The application deadline is July 15, 2025, 11:59 PM (Pacific/Niue).

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to COP30 CCMP Reporting Fellowship.