Following the Climate Money by Thomson Reuters Foundation

Each year, tens of billions of US dollars are sent from developed to developing countries to help them deal with the effects of climate change, protect tropical forests, or reduce carbon emissions. Developing countries themselves are investing increasing amounts of their domestic public budgets in climate action. This is the world of climate finance – a huge flow of money which is set to grow further in the coming years.

If you are a journalist in Asia who would like to dig into these huge sums and produce agenda-setting stories on how they are being spent and how different countries in the region are coping with the impact of global warming, then we would like to hear from you.

This programme will draw on the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s long track record of covering climate change and climate funding for a global audience. It will feature an intensive 5-day workshop in Indonesia. The workshop will introduce participants to climate finance, as well as related areas like carbon markets and the cost of disaster management, always using real case studies. It will also demonstrate how data journalism could be applied to this topic. Participants will then receive support from project editors to help them produce original stories. Modest funding will be available to help with reporting costs.