Climate experts, journalists for clean, nature based solutions to address environmental degradation.

KARACHI -- The Climate Change experts and journalists have highlighted the need of clean, nature based solutions to the problem of climate change and the need of sensitizing journalists towards promoting responsible reporting on the impacts of climate change.

These issues were discussed and addressed during a workshop organized for journalists titled 'Reporting on Climate Change: Making the Invisible Visible', on August 2-3, by The Centre for Excellence in Journalism (CEJ) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), a news release said here.

Centered around building the technical knowledge and skills of journalists, the workshop's objective was to promote responsible and inclusive reporting on the way climate change is playing out locally. Climate change is deeply intertwined with local patterns of inequality and those already marginalized or in vulnerable situations face disproportionate impacts of this crisis.

Veteran journalist and lead trainer for the workshop, Shahzeb Jillani said 'It is imperative that we place local communities at the heart of our stories and highlight the indigenous impacts of climate change that are otherwise absent from mainstream media coverage',

The workshop was attended by 13 print, broadcast and digital journalists from various media organizations and featured expert sessions by Malik Amin Aslam, former Minister for Climate Change, Dr. Nausheen Anwar, Director Karachi Urban Lab, Sardar Sarfaraz, Chief Meteorologist at the Pakistan Met Department, Dr. Sher Muhammad, Glaciologist at ICIMOD, and Maaz Tanveer, Head of Communications for HANDS...