Aug 16 - Caribbean journalists and climate change experts are working together to produce a handbook for coverage of climate change issues in the media.

A draft document is to be fine-tuned at a two-day workshop to be held in Trinidad at Cascadia Hotel on
August 17 and 18, 2005.

The project has been pulled together by the Belize-based Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre
(CCCCC) and the Mainstreaming Adaptation to Climate Change (MACC) Project in collaboration with the
Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers (ACM) and the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).

Climate change is considered by experts to be among the major challenges to the Caribbean in the 21st
century.

The CCCCC and MACC Project have been at the forefront of efforts to generate greater concern in the region, including among the region's journalistic community.

The ACM has offered its support for the project and has initiated broad discussion of the draft document
among regional journalists.

The August 17-18 workshop is a sub-project of the programme to build Caribbean capacity in Public
Education and Outreach in seven targeted Caribbean countries.

It proposes to develop a Caribbean Journalist's Handbook on Climate Change through the efforts and
direction of regional media practitioners and experts in the field of climate variability and climate
change.

Association of Caribbean Media Workers 55 Caiman Circle, St Joseph Trinidad, WEST INDIES

http://www.freewebs.com/acmediaworkers/index.htm

Wesley Gibbings, President: (868) 645-4145 (Trinidad) Clive Bacchus, General Secretary: (869) 466-9586 (St Kitts)