Following the global direction of GAIA to strengthen climate work, this fellowship connects existing work in the region to the bigger climate issue.
While South Asia and East Asia may seem worlds apart, not just geographically, a fellowship combining the two subregions will highlight that despite the seemingly huge differences in economics and stature, these subregions face the same problems and false solutions and both have the capacity to effect genuine solutions.
The GAIA Asia Pacific Media Fellowship on Climate – South and East Asia gathers over 30 journalists from South Asia, East Asia, and one from the Pacific Islands.
Module 1:
Climate issues, policies, and conferences – what to look out for, Mariel Vilella (Zero Waste Europe)
Module 2:
Climate, Zero Waste, and Waste Pickers, Ambily Adithyan (GAIA Asia Pacific), Harshad Barde (SWaCH), Qabeer Jalandhari (Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers)
Module 3:
Climate and Plastics, Neil Tangri (GAIA), Xavier Sun (Taiwan Zero Waste Alliance)
Module 4:
Climate and Burning, Yobel Novian Putra (GAIA Asia Pacific), Afrah Ismail (Zero Waste Maldives)
Module 5:
Climate Reporting, Jhesset Enano (Philippine Daily Inquirer), Ranjit Devraj (SciDev.Net/InterPress News Agency), Shailendra Yashwant (CAN South Asia)
Parvez Babul, The Daily Observer
Sustainable Waste Management in Bangladesh and South Asia
Yichun Luo, Business Ecology
Aobag: The Trash Recycling Practice Behind ‘Recycle Station’
Bhumi Kala Poudel, Pragya Seeds, Nepal
जलवायुमा अपाङ्गता सवाल (Disability Issues in Climate) [NP]
Asim Ahmad Khan, Balochistan Express/CNN
Zero Waste Management in Pakistan: A Way Forward
Matiullah Mati, Daily Asia Today Quetta
In Quetta, Every Person Generates 0.72 kg Solid Waste Daily
Muhammad Arslan Saeed, Pakistan Television Corporation
Islamabad and State of Solid Waste Management
Wisal Yousafzai, The Express Tribune
Plastic Waste: A Threat to Marine Life
Dishani Senaratne, Daily FT
Role of Youth in Achieving Zero Waste: Opportunities and Challenges
SM Ashraful Alam, ATN Bangla
Episode 1: The Plastic Problem, Episode 2: Plastic: Solutions
Cheena Kapoor, Freelance Journalist
Global Health Now: India’s Mountains of Biomedical Waste
Pallavi Sareen, The Straight Line
Jammu’s Palli shines as carbon-neutral panchayat, while Kot Bhalwal dumping site remains an eyesore
Ananta Prakash Subedi, Center for Research on Agriculture, Journalism and Environment, Nepal
Waste Management and landfill sites: Bharatpur’s case
Mukesh Pokhrel, Ukaalo
Plastic bag ban: repeatedly announced, why not implemented?
Rakesh Prasad Chaudhary, Freelance Journalist
Plastic Bottles and Impact of Climate Change
Matiullah Mati, Asia Today Quetta
In Quetta, Every Person Generates 0.72 kg Solid Waste Daily
Sabir Hussain, Sunrise Today
Effect of Garbage on Climate Change, Revenge of Climate Change, Climate Crisis in Pakistan