Poznań, 8 to 12 December 2008
Poznań International Fair - Hall 8A/First Floor - Meeting Room "Kite"

The media training workshop is a capacity building initiative targeting developing country journalists. The workshop in Poznań is made possible through capacity building support provided by the Government of Norway and Com+, an alliance of communicators for sustainable development http://www.complusalliance.org. Other collaborating organizations are World Bank, UNEP, GEF, UNDP, UNCCD, UNISDR, IEA, WBCSD,Climate Change Media Partnership, Globescan, and the UNFCCC secretariat.

The topics that will be discussed at the Poznań workshop comprise the science of climate change, the history and present status of UN climate change negotiations, and how the intergovernmental process on climate change works. Other topics to be covered relate to the central building blocks of the Copenhagen agreement. These building blocks are mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions), adaptation (adjusting to the inevitable effects of climate change), finance and technology. As part of the mitigation building block, special attention will be given to the issue of long-term emissions reduction, and review of the mechanisms such as clean development mechanisms (CDM), joint implementation (JI) and emissions trading. A further focus will be on the issue of risk management and risk reduction strategies.

The workshop presentations and documentation are distributed for educational purposes only.

For questions regarding the media training workshop, please contact press(at)unfccc.int