Journalists, non-media stakeholders engage in launch of environmental reporting award

Dr James Murombedzi, the Chief of the African Climate Policy Center (ACPC) of United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

It is “very wrong” to view Covid-19 as a stand-alone crisis when the nexus between the disease and other crises that threaten human existence is obvious. Journalists must, therefore, help the world, whether policy makers or citizens, to participate and concurrently tackle the current crises by appealing to relevant entities to act most appropriately.

This was the message during the launch of the African Climate Change and Environment Reporting (ACCER) Awards 2020, an initiative that targets African journalists telling the continent’s environment and climate change story.