December , 2009
Reporting on climate change, taking sides
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As hectic talks get underway on day 10 of the climate change negotiations, mediapersons from hundreds of news channels are here in Denmark. How do these many media organizations report on climate change issues and does their reporting correspond to the political alliances of their own countries? As I report here on climate change, I report on behalf my country and its concerns, but sometimes , also on the larger picture , on why cutting our greenhouse gas emissions is important and if we don't seal a deal at Copenhagen, it maybe too late. But one glance at what the wires report--and do understand many of the wire services are based in the developed world--reflect exactly that, the concerns of the rich nations. Unfortunately these wire services also provide news to media outfits in the developing world. So at the end of the day , we as the....
From Copenhagen: Chaos and cold cloud over climate talks
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It's been three days now in this cold cold country and the only way to describe the COP15 Copenhagen Summit is ABSOLUTE CHAOS! Whether its the negotiations, or the organisational abilities of the hosts, every process has been in disarray. Monday morning as temperatures dipped to -2 degrees Celsius, over one thousand people stood in the queue outside the Bella Centre, the main venue of the COP15. Along with me were over 10 journalists from print and TV networks across India, including Sunita Narain from the Centre for Science and Environment, waiting patiently to be let in. Minutes went into hours, and the queue outside was over 2 km long, with no signs of any of us being let in, and the temperatures continue to dip further. No water, no food, thousands waited patiently, in the hope of being let in to this historic summit. This despite the....
More about Bahar Dutt
Bahar Dutt is a wildlife conservationist by training. She has worked for the last ten years on crucial wildlife conservation projects in India and abroad. In England she worked at the world famous Jersey Zoo set up by naturalist Gerald Durrell and was involved in assessing the conditions for release of endangered primate in the Amazon forests. . She has over 10 awards to her credit including the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2006 and the Wildscreen Award , UK and the Young Environment Journalist Award 2007. As an environment editor at CNN-IBN she has done a range of stories travelling to far and forgotten corners of this country to expose the nexus between the mining mafia, politicians and corporates. She has posed as a furniture maker to expose the illegal trade in banned timber in the Western Ghats, and the nexus between the police and a mining company in the Niyamgiri hills of Orissa. One of her most dramatic exposés involved a cement company of global dimensions that had been operating illegally in the forests of Meghalaya on the India-Bangladesh border. More recently, she and the CNN-IBN team exposed the operations of a miner in Goa who had illegally devastated forest lands. Their story led to the shut down of the mine.
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