Climate Tracker (CT) 2023 Caribbean Climate Resource Grant, Trinidad and Tobago

We’re excited to announce our new Caribbean Community Climate Resource Grant, in partnership with Open Society Foundations. This opportunity aims to incentivise journalists in the Caribbean to create climate resources/tools for other journalists, community organisations, and communicators across the region, with the goal of helping to encourage, improve, and enhance climate reporting, while promoting climate knowledge sharing, and spotlighting underreported regional climate issues

During the first cycle of our 6-month Caribbean Climate Justice Journalism Fellowship, journalists from across the region highlighted the importance of climate justice within their communities through amazing storytelling.

• Table of Content
• About Climate Tracker
• Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant
• Aim and Benefits of Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant
• Requirements for Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About Climate Tracker

Climate Tracker was founded in 2015, and has delivered cutting edge training, innovative media campaigns, and supported incredibly talented teams of young reporters around the world ever since.  The organisation was founded in the lead-up to the Paris Climate talks, but the idea was born years before. In 2009, a global coalition of climate-focused NGOs called the GCCA, believed that innovative young climate bloggers might be able to influence their national negotiators at the UN climate talks. This idea was known as Adopt a Negotiator. The Adopt a Negotiator became an... continue reading

Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant

Aim and Benefits of Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant

The objective here is for our selected grantees to engage in research and investigation to produce a resource/tool (for example an explainer video on covering carbon credits in Guyana , a handbook for hurricane reporting, or even a detailed guide for what communicators needs to know about critical deep sea mining in Jamaica) for the benefit of our growing and expanding community of Caribbean climate journalists and communicators.

Benefits: 

• Access to experts and data on climate change
• 1-1 mentoring and guidance
• Global exposure of your profile and the resource/tool you create
• A $200 grant
• Exposure through our closing online webinar session

Requirements for Climate Tracker Caribbean Climate Resource Grant Qualification

You are eligible if:

• You are from a Caribbean country.
• You are between the ages of 18-35.
• You have at least 1 year of journalistic and/or content creation experience.
• You have proven experience in reporting on environmental issues.
• You have the facilities to share the result of your work within your community.
• You are available to work on a media/communication resource.

Expectation

• Total commitment to the programme and regular meetings with your assigned mentor
• Production of a high-quality and professional communication piece that could have a real impact on your community.
• Openness to feedback and effective about your resource/tool idea
• Sharing the results of your work with your community and network
• Passion for becoming part of the Climate Tracker community
• A lot of creativity and fresh ideas 

Application Deadline

How to Apply

Simply complete and submit this form telling us how this grant could potentially benefit you and your career! 

Application deadline: Wednesday 31st May, 2023 at 11:59pm (GMT-4 | Port-of-Spain time)

For more details visit: Climate Tracker website.