The Global Energy Transition: Is Journalism Ready? #GETJO17
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The most recent PROGRAMME version can be found HERE. For the list of speakers see HERE - please note that this list is updated regularly.
The implications and innovations of the energy transition cross traditional national, business, and journalistic boundaries. Journalists across the globe have set out covering the epochal shift towards a low-emissions economy crucial to meet the pledge 195 countries signed up to with the Paris Agreement.
Such a truly global story needs an international perspective as well as cross-border research and cooperation. Many major energy and climate policy stories cannot be told in a purely national context. They demand an audience beyond a domestic readership. However, many publications are still stuck in the national discourse. Cross-border collaboration among journalists is an exception rather than the rule and only a few media houses can afford to draw from a range of international views and research.
Against the backdrop of the COP23 climate conference in Bonn, Clean Energy Wire is inviting journalists, journalism and media networks, communication scientists, policymakers and journalism funders to discuss what global energy transition reporting should look like and how we can make it happen.
We want to hear about experiences in cross-border reporting in other journalistic fields, talk about readers’ and policymakers’ expectations and stimulate energy transition reporting across borders.
OUR CONFIRMED SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
(Update: 27 October 2017)
- Keynote, Friday: Alan Rusbridger, former Editor-in-Chief of The Guardian
- Keynote Saturday: Brigitte Alfter, Managing Editor of Journalismfund and investigative journalist
- Christoph Bals, Policy Director at Germanwatch.org
- Claude Turmes, Member of European Parliament, the Greens/European Free Alliance
- Felix Dembski, Vice President Strategy at sonnen
- Laurie Goering, Climate Editor at the Thomson Reuters Foundation
- Mark Rice-Oxley, head of special projects at The Guardian
- Kieran Cooke, accomplished foreign and economic correspondent (including the BBC, Financial Times), representing the news service Climate News Network
- James Fahn, Global Director of Internews’ Environmental Programs, Executive Director of the Earth Journalism Network and environmental journalist (the New York Times, The Economist, Newsweek and The Jakarta Post published his work)
- Meaghan Parker, board member of the Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ) and senior writer/editor for The Wilson Center Environmental Change and Security Program
- Craig Morris, senior fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, co-author of the book ‘Energy Democracy - Germany’s Energiewende to Renewables’ and lead author of the energytransition.org blog.
- Dagmar Dehmer, environmental journalist (including at the national daily Tagesspiegel), head of company communications for the federal company for radioactive waste disposal (BGE)
- Joydeep Gupta, South Asia Director at news website The Third Pole and award-winning environmental journalist
- Prof. Holger Wormer, Institute for Journalism at the Technical University of Dortmund
- Dr. Sam Geall, Executive Editor at China Dialogue
Beyond this, representatives from hostwriter, n-ost e.V., ClimateTracker, Connectas, and other organisations have confirmed to speak at the conference.
A SELECTION OF KEY QUESTIONS WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT:
- 'Fake news' and best practice in journalism: What is the role of trust, transparency and quality standards? And who decides?
- What changes when journalists collaborate on climate and the energy transition?
- Sharing what works: What are the ingredients of a successful energy transition story that will get published?
- Do we need special international fact-checkers in the energy policy field?
Clean Energy Wire will also award three research grants for collaborative cross-border research projects as part of the launch of our own international network of energy transition and climate policy journalists.
Please register your interest in the conference by filling in the online form on this page until. We will notify you by 06 November whether we will be able to offer you a free place at the conference. We have a very limited amount of hotel rooms available from 09. -11. November - do notify us when submitting your application if you would require support with accommodation.
What does Clean Energy Wire CLEW offer?
Clean Energy Wire will cover all costs throughout the conference programme, including meals and travel expenses between locations.
What languages will be spoken?
The entire programme at the 2017 Clean Energy Wire CLEW Network Conferencewill be held in English.
How can I keep posted on the conference if I can’t make it in person?
The conference hashtag is #GETJO17. Clean Energy Wire will share all updates from our new Twitter account @ClewNetwork. We will also share forward coming opportunities and other Clean Energy Wire events via this account.