| Day 1: Wednesday, October 28, 2009
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| 09.00 am Registration |
| 10.00 am – 11.30 am Inaugural Session |
| Welcome Address: Mr Darryl D’Monte, President,
IFEJ |
| Guest of Honour: H. E. Mr Ole Lønsmann Poulsen,
Danish Ambassador to India |
Bridging North-South Difference in Reporting
Climate Change
Keynote Addresses:
Ms Sunita Narain, Editor, Down To Earth Magazine, Centre
for Science and Environment Download
Presentation
Mr Bryan Robert Walsh, Staff Writer,
Time magazine, USA Download Speech
Vote of Thanks: Ms P. N. Vasanti,
Director, CMS Academy of Communication and Convergence
Studies
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| 11.30 am TEA BREAK |
| 11.45 am – 01.30 pm |
Panel Discussion
Presentations by prominent environmental journalists:
Mr Eric Roston, Author of THE CARBON AGE: How Life’s
Core Element Has Become Civilization’s Greatest
Threat, Duke University, US Download
Presentation
Mr Martin Aagaard Jensen, Climate Editor, Politiken, Denmark
Mr Kunda Dixit, Editor of Nepali Times, Kathmandu, Nepal
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James Fahn, Director, Internews, Thailand
Mr Herve Kempf, Environment Editor, Le Monde & author
of How the Rich are Destroying the Earth, France
Mr Bryan Robert Walsh, Staff Writer, Time magazine, US
Mr Mats Hellmark, Editor, Swedish Nature, Sweden
Q & A
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| 01.30 pm Lunch Break |
| 02.30 pm – 04.00 pm India’s Energy Scenario |
Chair: Mr Herve Kempf, Environment Editor, Le Monde &
author of How the Rich are Destroying the Earth, France
Speaker:
India’s Energy Scenario; comparisons with US and
China: Mr Girish Sant, Trustee (Prayas), Coordinator -
Prayas Energy Group, Pune Download
Presentation
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| 04.00 pm Tea Break |
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| 04.15 pm – 05.30 pm |
North-South differences in electronic media
Chair: Mr Nalaka Gunawardene, Director and CEO, TVE AP
(TV for Education, Asia Pacific), Sri Lanka
Speakers: Mr Jesper Bulow Zolk, Editor, TV2 News, Copenhagen,
Denmark
Mr Po Garden, Project Director, Internews' Earth Journalism
Network, Thailand
Ms Bahar Dutt, Environment Editor, CNN-IBN Delhi, Download
Presentation
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Day 2: Thursday,
October 29, 2009
09.00 am: Registration |
| 02.30 pm – 04.00 pm |
Editors’ Roundtable
Editors from South and North field questions from international
environmental journalists on their coverage of climate
change
Chair: Mr Darryl D’Monte, President, IFEJ and
Chair, FEJI
Panel: Mr Kunda Dixit, Editor of Nepali Times, Kathmandu,
Nepal
Mr Martin Aagaard Jensen, Climate Editor, Politiken,
Denmark
Mr Herve Kempf, Environment Editor, Le Monde & author
of How the Rich are Destroying the Earth, France
Mr Raj Chengappa, Managing Editor, India Today, New
Delhi
Mr Mats Hellmark, Editor, Swedish Nature, Sweden
Mr Jesper Bulow Zolk, Editor, TV2 News, Copenhagen
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| 04.00 pm TEA BREAK |
| 04.15 pm - 6:00pm |
Chair: Ms Keya Acharya, Vice Chair, FEJI
Speaker: Mr Satinder Bindra, Director of Information and
Communications, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
Nairobi and launch of “Seal the Deal” campaign
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Presentation
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Day 3: Friday,
October 30, 2009
09.00 am: Registration
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| 10.00 am – 11.45 am |
Adapting to Climate Change: Oxfam India
Chair: Dr Prodipto Ghosh, India's
climate negotiator on adaptation finance
Speakers:
Adaptation interventions for agriculture: Dr Shiraz
Wajih, Member, Climate Action Network, South Asia
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Presentation
Adaptation interventions in disaster-prone areas: Prof
Santosh Kumar, Head, Policy, Planning & Cross-cutting
Issues, National Institute of Disaster Management Download
Presentation
Adaptation and the UNFCC: Ms Aditi Kapoor, Lead Specialist
(Economic Justice), Oxfam India Download
Presentation
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| 11.45 am Tea Break |
| 12.00 pm - 01.30 pm |
Central Himalayan Glaciers: Witnessing Change
A report by World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Birla
Institute of Technology (BIT)
Speakers
Dr Rajesh Kumar, Scientific Officer, Glaciology, BIT
Mr Shirish Sinha, Head, Climate & Energy, WWF India
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Presentation
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| 01.30 pm Lunch Break |
| 02.30 pm – 04.00 pm |
Emerging Science: Does the Atmospheric Brown Cloud exist
over South Asia and what are its impacts?
Chair: Mr Bryan Robert Walsh, Staff Writer, Time magazine,
USA
Speaker: Prof V. Ramanathan Center for Clouds, Chemistry
and Climate (C4), Scripps Institution of Oceanography
(SIO), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), USA
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Presentation
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| 04.00 pm Tea Break |
| 04.15 pm – 05.15 pm
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Summing up by Journalists’ Panel and Close of
Congress
Chair: Mr Darryl D’Monte, President, IFEJ and Chair,
FEJI
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