COPEAM, thanks to the support of the EIB – European Investment Bank and in collaboration with ASBU, organized in Tunis, on 16 and 17 December 2015, a 2-day training workshop on “Informing and raising awareness about climate challenges and sustainable development”.
Journalists from EPTV/Algeria, EPRS/Algeria, PBC/Palestine, Radio Tunisienne, SNRT/Morocco, TéléLiban, and Télévision Tunisienne attended the session in order to improve their knowledge and their reporting skills related to environmental and climate change issues.
Three experts from the journalistic, institutional and scientific areas - Kevin Burden, journalist and media consultant with a 20-year BBC career; Daniel Cebrian, marine biologist and SAP/BIO programme coordinator at UNEP/MAP; Yadh Labbene, climate change expert and activist - interacted with the beneficiary journalists by providing them with their different viewpoints and with specific content about the main global and regional challenges, with particular consideration of the Paris COP21 Conference results, ended on the 11 December 2015.