By Fatima Saka
In an effort for excellent reportage on climate change issues and in setting agenda for the government, A Non-Governmental Organization, Centre for Innovation and Development (CJID) has equipped more than twenty journalists on Climate Change Media Reporting for effective reporting and sustainable accountability.
Speaking at the Two-Day workshop in Abuja, Mr. Nicholas Adeniyi, Project Officer, CJID, said the Centre through its Climate Change Project noticed that a lot of journalists reporting on climate change do not really have an in depth knowledge of what climate is all about, adding that this has been a lot constrains revolving the media space while reporting.
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He further stressed that many journalists missed common environmental issues as climate change related issues, saying that the Centre wants journalists to be well acquainted with climate change issues, so that they can be able to report well, in order for the government and citizens to be properly informed.
Mr. Adeniyi said meanwhile, the media is perceived as custodians of information, as a journalist you are expected to know so much, it doesn’t speak good of any media if they continue to report surface stories.
“CJID holds the mandate to use the media to set agenda for the government, because the government sometime advantage of this ignorance among journalists, that is the reason why CJID organized this workshop, and we believed that the participants have learned so much, now they will be able to inform the citizens, as well as the government, when they go to the international space, to the Conference of the Parties (COP) they will be making the negotiation from an inform perspectives for the interest of the citizens.”
The following are Professionals among the facilitators who took the journalists on Climate Change Media Reporting; the Executive Director of CJID, Dr. Tobi Oluwatola, Mr. Daniel Oladoja , from Global Climate Diplomacy and the GSCC Network, Ms. Tengi George-Ikoli from the National Resources Governance Institutes (NRGI’s) among others.
