EJN Virtual Training for Journalists Reporting on Business and Climate Change 2025 – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Training for Journalists Reporting on Business and Climate Change 2025. Earth Journalism Network is internet hosting a digital media workshop in late August-September for enterprise and finance journalists in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand searching for to strengthen their local weather-centered reporting on environmental accountability, monetary and business options and informing public demand for change in Asia’s enterprise sector.

Journalists who take part within the workshop will achieve a greater understanding of: 

• How companies contribute to local weather change by their carbon-intensive practices and the necessity for better transparency inside the sector
• The financial prices of local weather change and the non-public sector’s function in bridging the local weather finance hole
• Existing insurance policies to carry companies to account for their function in contributing to local weather change and mitigating its impacts
• The technicalities of ESG, Net Zero, carbon and plastic offsetting, and the simply transition
• Corporate greenwashing and gaps in ESG frameworks (opaque carbon pricing; solely voluntary disclosure of local weather-associated dangers and emissions, and many others.)
• How the sector can profit from the drive towards Net Zero and a simply transition, and learn how to successfully report on these options
• The pathways wanted to transition towards a inexperienced, honest and inclusive economic system, together with coverage assist for blended finance and funding in progressive options and applied sciences
• The home and worldwide monetary assets and mechanisms in place for mitigation, adaptation and loss and harm 

The workshop will likely be held on August 26, 27 and September 2, 3, 2025. Participants who attend all 4 days of the workshop may also be eligible to apply for a narrative grant to supply journalistic work following the workshop

Benefits

• To make sure the workshops are accessible, EJN will provide a restricted variety of communications stipends to these with an unstable web connection in distant areas. Indicate in your application whether or not you’ll require a communications stipend to make sure Wi-Fi connectivity in the course of the coaching.  
• Participants who attend all periods will obtain a certificates of completion from EJN. 

Eligibility

• Applicants may be from any of the 4 goal nations: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand.  
• For the needs of this coaching OPPORTUNITY, EJN will solely be accepting purposes in English, Thai and Indonesian. Unfortunately, they don’t have the capability to contemplate purposes in different languages at the moment. Applicants will need to have a working understanding of English, Thai and Indonesian to take part in and absolutely profit from the workshop. Simultaneous language interpretation will likely be supplied. 
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (on-line, print, tv, radio) and different media practitioners with expertise overlaying enterprise, finance and/or the economic system. Experience with local weather and vitality reporting is welcome however not required.   
• They welcome purposes from each workers reporters and freelancers reporting for all forms of media organizations—neighborhood-based mostly, native nationwide and worldwide. They particularly encourage girls, rural, Indigenous and early and mid-profession journalists to apply.
• Applicants are required to be clear about the usage of generative AI instruments, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the best to disqualify candidates from consideration if they’ve been discovered to have engaged in unethical or improper skilled conduct, together with, however not restricted to, submitting AI generated content material as their very own.  

Application

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For extra info, go to EJN Virtual Training.