By Sariba Manneh
Ministry of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, recently conducted a daylong training for Gambian Journalists aimed to capacities journalists on the skills of reporting climate change in the country, at Baobab Hotel.
Salmina E Jobe, director of central project coordinator at the Ministry of Environment, described journalists as pivotal actors who can help in disseminating message about climate change to the public on its damaging impact it has on the human society.
“The media today is playing leading roles and not only keeping contemporary issues alive across the world, but also significantly informing and influencing world leaders opinion on these issues,” he said.
He added: “My Ministry with support from development partners such as the Clean Investment Fund (CIF) and the African Development Bank (AFDB), and the NEMA CHOSSO Project has found it prudent to engage the Gambia media practitioners from both the print and electronic media houses with a view to ensuring that they get true and scientifically generated sound information on climate change which they would then use for informing the general public on the grim realities of its impacts on the country’s economic.”
He said the national climate change policy focused exclusively on media practitioners to be fully equipped with the requisite knowledge and skills on climate change, with mitigation and adaptation processes that will enable them better report on the looming dangers of the menace.
