The polls are still open for the Global Public Award, so take a minute to vote for her here: http://awards.earthjournalism.org/finalist/climate-change-focus-on-eritrea-eritrea
Jaspreet was invited to receive the award in Denmark and is currently providing daily humanitarian coverage from the proceedings in Copenhagen.
The award is sponsored by the Danish government, who are hosting COP15, the World Bank, MTV, and others. Over 900 environmental reporters across all media - print, radio, TV and online - professional and citizen journalists, photojournalists and bloggers from more than 145 countries participated in the awards competition.
Read the series here:
- Reaping the wind
- Climate-proofing for the future
- Water on their minds
Read the COP 15 coverage here:
- How to get attention in Copenhagen
- A Dow Jones Index for climate change
- Climate change costs a lot
- Undernutrition and climate change linked
- How not to fight over scarce resources
- Read IRIN's Indepth, The Gathering Storm
- View IRIN Climate Change films here
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