Environmental News Channel
Environmental News Channel (ENC )
“Reporting for a sustainable future”
Vision
Informative reporting aimed at influencing policy on environmental and climate justice and ensuring environmental and climate justice, gender equality and poverty eradication
Objectives
Ensuring a responsive leadership on environmental and climate justice
Positioning the media to push for environmental and climate justice through policy influencing
Amplifying voices of marginalised communities on environmental and climate justice
Amplifying the voices of women and female youths on environmental and climate justice
Interviews with CSOs/CBOs and international organisations working on climate change and environmental issues
Reflecting on progress on commitments on environmental and climate change policies – recommendations from CSO perspectives
Interviews with EMA/Ministry officials
Local authorities on LEAPs and Masterplans- Mayor’s, Town Clerks, Environmental Management Committee Chairpersons
Residents Assiciations on environmental issues.
Field visits eg in partnership with EMA and RAs
Experts on climate change
Profiling YALI Alumni working on environmental and climate change issues
Press Club discussions on environmental and climate change issues . Media trainings as well
Roundtable discussions eg in partnership with the Media Centre
Events at the US embassy
Xspaces/Zoom discussions – local, regional and international level. To partner with PP experts on environmental and climate justice
Livestreaming of events
Exhibitions eg on wetlands destruction, environmental issues, climate change issues
Documentaries on environmental and climate justice
Investigative Stories
Profiling regional YALI Alumni working on environmental and climate change issues
Vox pops
Press club discussions at colleges- students to contribute stories after . Necessary to link with colleges and university departments
Environmental clubs at schools
Profiling Ramsar sites and pushing for implementation on progress regarding the Ramsar convention eg Twitter Spaces discussion on “Zim commitments under the Ramsar Convention: Reflecting on progress”
Exclusive interviews with experts . One on one interviews for site , Columnists,
Letters to the Editor/Community Voices
Republish stories on environment
Mining and the environment
- Come up with a database of CSOs/CBOs, International organisations working on environmental and climate justice issues
- Database of local YALI Alumni working on environmental and climate justice issues
- Database of mining companies – pushing for accountability on environmental protection. Profiling their community projects on environmental protection/sustainable use of the environment
- Database of Mining companies and their various areas of operation
- Approach embassies supporting media and environmental and climate change issues
- Engage PP for links
Publications- Climate Brief – gendered impacts of climate change Climate Justice- the case of Chimanimani
Interviews – Environmental Focus , ENC Brief,
“Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it’s too late.”
– John Delaney