Monday, March 1, 2010 - 8:00am - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 - 7:09pm
The Climate Change Communication Conference Africa is easy to Remember. Simple as 1, 2, 3 March 1-3 2010. Now that COP 15 has closed the Climate Calendar Year, we are pleased to invite you to Uganda for the First Climate Change Communication Conference in Africa. Kindly put a star on the following dates in March 2010 and book them for Kampala, Uganda. Monday March 1st, Tuesday March 2nd and Wednesday March 3rd 2010 will be the Climate Change Communication Conference days.... Welcome.

Story and Pictures
By Judith Akolo
in Ghana

Kakum National Park in Ghana is home to the remaining equatorial rain forest that once covered the African continent.
The Kakum National Park is one of the wonders that could one day end up in the world records. It amazes to imagine walking at a height described as a bird’s eye view.

It is dense and dark, as the lianas that form part of the flora weave around the other plants.

Announcement (First)

The Climate Change Communication Conference will take place in March 2010 in Kampala, Uganda. This conference will be informed by the outcome of a number of major conferences on Climate Change that have recently been concluded or soon to be concluded. These include the World Science Journalists Conference -London, the World Climate Conference (WCC3)-Geneva, The Global Broadcasters Conference-Paris among others.

In all these meetings the importance of communicating climate and climate change information has come out clearly as a major priority. It is against this background that this conference is being organized by a consortium of institutions and organizations.

These include but are not limited to:
1. The Network of Climate Journalists in the Greater Horn of Africa-NECJOGHA
2. Network for Environment and Climate Journalists in Africa-NECTAFRICA
3. Internews
4. Uganda Journalists Association-UJA
5. IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center-ICPAC
6. Several others still to confirm.

Application Forms will soon be posted for participation in the various categories.

A call for abstracts of paper and poster presentations will soon be made available.

Patrick Luganda
Chair NECJOGHA
Director NECTAFRICA

Africa seeks climate change cash

Ministers from 10 African countries have met in Ethiopia to try to agree a common position on climate change, months before a crucial UN meeting.

They were expected to renew demands for billions of dollars in compensation for Africa because of damage caused by global warming.

And they are likely to ask rich nations to cut emissions by 40% by 2012.

African nations are among the lightest polluters but analysts say they will suffer the most from climate change.

Provisional Media Agenda for WCC-3

Monday 31 August 2009

11:45 – 12:15 (tbc) WCC-3 opening press conference (CICG Room 15)
Mr Michel Jarraud, WMO Secretary-General
Mr Alexander Bedritsky, WMO President
Mr Bruno Oberle, Director of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (tbc)

12:15 – 12:25 Daily press briefing (CICG Room 15)

12:30 – 12:45 Book launch: Climate Sense (CICG RC)

12:45 – 13:15 USA press conference (CICG Room 15)

Governments to Take Decisive Action For Climate Adaptation
at World Climate Conference - 3

(Geneva, Switzerland, 31 August – 4 September 2009)

Dr. Rajendra Pachauri, the Indian climate change scientist who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, will co-host the Earth Journalism Awards ceremony in Copenhagen in December.
Dr. Pachauri is recognised as one of the world's greatest authorities on climate change. He is the director-general of The Energy and Resources Institute and has served as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 2002.

Research News

New fund for innovative knowledge sharing launched by AfricaAdapt

Dear all,

UNDP, Olympus Foundation and Agence France-Presse (AFP) Foundation organize Picture This: Caring for the Earth photo contest which seeks out single photos and photo essays profiling people in Africa working to reduce the effects of climate change in their countries, cities and communities.
Check it out:
http://picturethis.undp.org/about

Population Action International’s latest working paper, Projecting Population, Projecting Climate Change: Population in IPCC Scenarios, shows that population growth is not adequately accounted for in the emissions scenarios produced by the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). This is the second in a three part series that explores role of population dynamics in climate change mitigation and adaptation. This working paper:
· Explains the population projections used in scenarios of emissions growth

Innovative New Book Highlights the Threat of Climate Change

Dr. Tammy Boyce, formerly of Cardiff University and now at The King’s Fund, London and Dr. Justin Lewis of Cardiff University have co-edited a groundbreaking new study on climate, Climate Change and the Media, published by Peter Lang Publishing.

International Media Studies - Master's Programme Scholarship
Deadline Date
May 31, 2009

The Investment Climate Facility (ICF) for Africa and the Thomson Reuters Foundation have launched a call for applications to their groundbreaking business journalism training course being held in Zambia next month. Participants have until Tuesday 19 May to apply for the Zambian course that will be delivered in English in Lusaka from 25 – 29 May 2009.

In response to the global food crisis, countries such as China, Korea, and the United Arab Emirates are buying or attempting to buy agricultural land in poor countries to meet the food demands of their own populations. The land acquisitions have the potential to increase investment into agriculture and rural areas in developing countries, but they raise concerns about the impact on small-scale farmers. A new brief by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) sheds light on these controversial issues and offers recommendations to safeguard the interests of affected people.

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UC Berkeley Fellowships for African Journalists
http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/press/african_journalists/

The Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at
Berkeley is pleased to invite applications for two yearlong
fellowships for accomplished African journalists, beginning in August
2009.

The fellowships will each total $36,000, including roundtrip airfare,
professional stipends, and rent while in Berkeley. The initiative
will also offer dedicated funding for both domestic U.S. and Africa
travel for research and reporting work.