“One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between man and nature shall not be broken.”
Climate is the long term weather report of an area. The main thing that we have to focus on is the climatic change that is caused by the environmental constraints. This environment degradation is only because of excessive human needs. We are unable to perceive a good climate for many decades,which is only due to increase in technology and chemical factories. The human needs are increasing day by day and as a result we are facing a substandard climatic circumstance. In view of this fact, humans and our biodiversity are getting drastically affected. So there is a need to aware people about our climate and prompt them to make a change in their life and environment.
“Progress is impossible without a change.“
Climate tracker is a journalism based organization that works on climate reporting, writing articles and connects with the great young journalists of the world to publish their articles for a change. Climate tracker is a global platform for a creative and enthusiastic young journalist to raise their voice through articles.
“Climate change increasingly poses one of the biggest long-term threats to investments.” — Christiana figueres, secretary of the UNFCCC.
The organization was established in 2015. The organization’s co-founder and director is Chris Wright. Climate tracker is building the world’s largest network of young and powerful voices that can write it on the paper today to become the headlines of tomorrow. This organization focuses on empowering youth to be the local voice for a climatic change.
Elucidation-
Since 2015, the organization has delivered training, innovative and fruitful media campaigns and brought incredibly talented teams of young reporters to the UN climate negotiations. Organization has relinquished in-person training in more than 30 countries, hundreds of online webinars and awarded travel scholarships to more than 350 young journalists. Organization have run participatory and cooperative media research in over 20 different countries and are developing distinctive data analytics tools to give journalists the best probability to get quickly and directly through national debates.
These young journalists have published 6000 articles in their national media covering more than 114 countries and 24 languages. More than 90% of the opportunities are given to the young people from the developing countries which can make strong impacts in their national media. Moreover, 60% of the rewarded trackers have been women and include over 75% women in the global team of climate trackers.
The clear intuition of the organization is:
“That with the right support, any journalist can shape climate narratives around the world.”
At the start of 2017, we found three flaws in the public debates on climate, energy, health and jobs. They identified 10 countries which are in need to influence the public debate. The organization started an open call on three topics to publish three articles on it for 3 months. Namely,
1. Benefits of renewable energy.
2. Need for climate financing.
3. Climate, energy and health.
The competition goes along with webinars and toolkit in all languages with important information on each topic. The competition was facilitated by climate tracker’s App. Journalists can create personal user accounts, hand in their articles, collect training materials and get individualized analysis on their publications. The results after such competitions are-
· Over 1500 journalists signed up.
· Over 1250 were trained online and in webinars.
· 5 received a fully funded fellowship to COP23.
· Over 500 articles, reports have been published in 10 focus countries.
· 93 journalists were trained in tailored multi-day regional workshops.
· Total 750 publications over 109 countries.
This program has influenced the media’s narrative in various targeted countries and brought the under-reported topics to public programs. Many young journalists who never published any article before, being a climate tracker they managed to publish big outlets.
Climate tracker work with various local and global partners on projects. They are looking forward to the partnership skills that improve quality and quantity of environmental journalism, creates a significant amount of publications on underreported topics, trains and empower journalists and communicators.
Undertakings of Climate Tracker —
Climate is now a pent up thing that everyone is not paying attention to it. There is a drastic change in the climate but none of us is eager to know about it. It is necessary to protect ourselves, our wildlife and our biodiversity. The one who is the culprit for bad climatic conditions is only humans. We need to focus on such topics which are needed for sustainability.
“What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on.”
There is a need for climate caretakers who let the people know the consequences of the climate. Focusing it through articles will affect the people and make them know why tracking is necessary in climate.So the climate trackers help interested young writers and journalists to be environmental reporters :
1. Organization run various campaigns to encourage young journalist globally –
In 2017, climate tracker ran 18 different media campaigns that varied from global to national media topics. The journalist involved in the campaigns provided them with full journalist freedom along with this; they encouraged the young journalist to publish in national publications where the editors play a vital role in quality control. These amazing writers published over 2000 articles in national media across more than 100 countries.
The main aim is to highlight new and inventive narratives, train journalists to gain some new storytelling techniques and offer great incentive for those who make a great impact in the national media.
2. Innovatory workshops for youngsters to learn and improvise the data —
Climate trackers also run amazing workshops. In the past 3 years, they have done various workshops across 35 different countries in 8 different languages. They have worked with various NGOs that were seeking to improve their young writers who wanted to be in the spotlight and seasoned journalists who wanted to understand the concept of data journalism and climate change.
3. Data analytics and media research for tracking out the climatic change –
The organization is also investing heavily in research and Data Analytics. They are building a data analytics tool that was able to track global climate change narratives. Also they conduct some pretty leading-edge media research projects on climate change reporting in different media environments.
4. Conference sheathing opportunities for the team to represent themselves as a great trackers –
In the past years, the organization specialized on UN climate negotiations, where the team of this organization was known as “Negotiator Trackers”. The organization sends a journalism team to have the world’s biggest conferences. The reporters track the national negotiators and do some of the innovative and important reporting from UN Talks. Since then, the reporting teams have gone through many conferences which were held on topics like adaptations, Biodiversity, energy, migration, growth and even climate finance.
5. Mentorship and fellowship provided to many and important events of climates to encourage youths –
The mentorships combine in-person and online engagement where a large number of local and international mentors are provided to the young journalists and writers. It offers fellowship to most the important climate events such as UNFCCC COPs to empower young journalism.
“It is our collective and individual responsibility … to preserve and tend to the world in which we all live.”
If you want to develop your data journalism skills and want to be taught by great mentors then become a partner with a climate tracker to let your young local voice get a stage.
