China Climate Change Fellowships
In March 2009 One World Media ran its first Climate Change Media Fellowship, in collaboration with the British Council China. The scheme brought eight environment journalists from China to the UK for one week, during which they met a range of people involved in reporting on and tackling the issue.
The scheme gave them the opportunity to explore how climate change is reported in the media, and to share their own perspective on how the media handles the issue in China. It also brought them into contact with some of the leading climate change figures from the worlds of government, business, academia, and NGOs.
Click here to download the full programme (pdf file).
Their packed schedule in the UK featured meetings and roundtable discussions at the BBC, the Guardian, Greenpeace, the Greater London Assembly, the Carbon Trust, Imperial College London, the International Institute for the Environment and Development (IIED), and the sustainable design exhibition Ecobuild.
There was also an interview session with Ed Miliband MP, Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, hosted at his department (DECC).
The journalists were selected as winners of a national climate change reporting competition, as part of the British Council China's Climate Cool project. They were judged by experts and their peers as the most outstanding reporters on climate change across broadcasting and print media.
Climate Change Fellows at the BBC
The eight Chinese fellows with the Rt Hon Ed Miliband MP, formerly Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change
Climate Change fellows 2009:
Zhu Yan, News Editor, China Central TV
Liu Shixin, Vice-Director, Economic Department, China Youth Daily
Qiu Dengke, Director of News Center, Private Economy News
Xia Jianhong, Editor, Nature and Science Magazine
Qin Qing, Correspondent, Xinhua News Agency
Wang Liping, Correspondent, Science Times
Gao Wenhuan from Shantou University
Zhao Huaiyan, Documentary Producer, Huafeng Group of Meteorological Audio and Video Information