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Pacific Magazine: Pacific Journalists Draw Resolutions On Climate Change Reporting

The workshop brought together over a dozen senior and experienced journalists from throughout the Pacific to learn about climate change and share the experiences of reporting in their own countries. With a stronger understanding of climate change and how it effects our environment on the part of key media, the reporting which stems from Pacific journalists should provide greater benefit to local communities.

“I now believe that in order for the Pacific people to take ownership and act on climate change, the media should first of all take ownership and play its role so that the public will know their part. Addressing Climate Change is not only a role for the experts, it is a team effort including me the journalist, the shopkeeper down the road, the fishermen beyond those atolls and even the car dealer in town. It is everybody's responsibility,” said Ulamila Wragg, the Managing Editor of Pacific Magazine.

The workshop was a partnership between the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), the Government of Canada, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Pacific Islands News Association (PINA).