Open Call for Journalists, new #AMWAJStories and plenty of events & resources for you this month!📩💦
Get the latest opportunities and news about water and environment-related issues in the #Mediterranean in just one click!🌊
Communicating the shift towards water resilience
Opportunities4u
Innovate4climate Journalists Workshop
Innovate4Climate, in collaboration with REVOLVE, will deliver a 4-hour online workshop about carbon markets and carbon pricing on 23 May 2022 under the umbrella of Innovate4Climate 2022 – the World Bank Group’s flagship climate action event. Climate change reporters from the Middle East and North Africa region are invited to participate.
Applying constructive journalism in environmental reporting: how and why
Come join us on 29 March at 11:00 am CET to celebrate World Water Day! During the Tabadul, we will talk about constructive journalism and we will be announcing the journalists’ winners of the Berytech Climate Reporting Media Training, whom will share their experience implementing constructive journalism in their environmental reporting.
Vanishing Aquifers in the Middle East and North Africa
Aquifers in the Middle East and North Africa are coming under increasing strain and are in real danger of extinction. Eight aquifers systems are categorized as ‘over stressed’ with hardly any natural recharge to offset the water consumed. How can we save aquifiers?
The MEP Water Group and UNESCO are organising an online event on 25 March from 9.00 am to 10.30 am, during which the United Nations World Water Development Report on groundwater will be presented.
Online Course on Advanced Topics in Freshwater Health
IHE Delft’s online course series explores the multiple social-ecological dimensions of freshwater health and introduces the Freshwater Health Index as an open-source and freely available tool to examine water systems.
United Nations Climate Change will held the first-ever Middle East and North Africa Regional Climate Week from 28 to 31 March 2022, which will accelerate collaboration and integrate climate action into global pandemic recovery.
REEF Film Festival is organizing an animation workshop, where participants will learn how to create short films inspired by a nature hike in Akkar, and will use elements from nature & trees to produce their animated clips, raise awareness or simply portray the beauty of the surrounding natural richness.
AWiM is calling for pitches for stories that are solutions-based and that will call attention to the gendered aspect of environmental issues in Africa impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on ecosystems, biodiversity, conservation, waste management and other issues related to the broader ecological challenges in Africa which affect women.
Climate Tracker in collaboration with Solutions Journalism Network has open this call for applications to win a Solutions Reporting Grant, with emphasis on stories related to agriculture and farmer-led sustainable agricultural practices, food systems, and land rights.
AMWAJ stands for A Mediterranean Water And Journalism platform for sustainable development. We aspire to build an energy and water community around the Mediterranean. An initiative by REVOLVE.
