Media and Climate Justice
On the evening of Saturday, September 28, 2024, the seventh session of the Media and Climate program was held. This program is implemented by the National Forum for Environment and Sustainable Development (NFESD) in cooperation with the Arab Network for Scientific Journalism and the Humanitarian Journalism Foundation. The session was conducted via Zoom and was titled “Press Coverage of Global Climate and Environment Conferences.”
The session began with a presentation by Hala Subhi Murad, a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, environment and climate change, Executive Director of the Dubeen Development Association and member of the International Union for Conservation of Nature. She shared with the participants the concept of climate justice, noting that the cause of climate change is pollution from waste and that the countries causing it are the developed countries, while the damage is borne by developing countries and countries of the South.
She pointed out that the environmental issue is a political issue and that the concept of climate justice is the right of all affected community groups to receive support that mitigates the resulting effects.
She stressed that work on climate justice is multi-dimensional and that about 100 companies alone produce about 71% of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming, while the pursuit of climate justice lies in the direct distribution of environmental benefits and burdens in order to bear the historical responsibility that industrial countries have acknowledged for more than a century.
She concluded with the importance of the role of journalists in helping climate activists and stakeholders by addressing climate issues that increase the strength of their arguments and prove the existence of impact and damage to the environment.
This session is the seventh in a series of sessions of the Media and Climate program launched by the National Forum for Environment and Sustainable Development (NFESD) in cooperation with the Arab Network for Scientific Journalism and the Humanitarian Journalism Foundation, in order to develop the capacities of journalists in dealing with climate and environment related topics.
