18 November 2015 at Himawari Hotel, Phnom Penh— Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Information is co-organizing training workshop on “Media and Climate Change” to approximately 60 media professionals who are reporters and editors from TV, radio and press working at the national and local levels. This is the second joint training between the two ministries with the specific objective of raising awareness and engagement of the multiple media groups in reporting climate change issues.
Spoke persons from 8 key ministries/agencies are additionally invited to attend the above training and those includeMinistry of Public Work and Transport, Ministry of Water Resource and Meteorology, Ministry of Women’s Affairs, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Rural Development, Ministry of Education Youth and Sport, Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Fisheries, and National Committee for Disaster Management.
In his remark given on behalf of Minister of Environment, H.E.Dr. Yim Kimsean, Secretary of State, Ministry of Environment, recognized the critical need to minimize the climate change impacts on people and the national economy. Media has, therefore, played crucial role in raising public awareness to mitigate and adapt to climate change more effectively.
In response, H.E. Khieu Kanharith, Minister of Information, expressed his fully support on the good cooperation between the two ministries. His Excellency also recognized the important role of Media and as a result, with the support of Ministry of Environment, Ministry of Information has successfully developed its Climate Change Action Plan 2015-2018 which has been implementing. His Excellency further recommended that all media institutions from both state and private should regularly broadcast current climate change hot news, events and educational programs.
Climate change technical officials from Department of Climate Change of the General Secretariat of the National Council for Sustainable Development and press officials of the Ministry of Information presented the key points of climate change including 1) the impact of climate change on development in Cambodia, 2) the role of media in climate change issue 3) sources of climate change information 4) United Nations Climate Change Conference-CoP21 and Cambodia’s Intended Nationally Determined Contribution in implementing the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and 5) sharing experience of writing climate change articles, and 6) climate change financing.
