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DW.COM in 30 languages ABOUT DW.COM Akademie Home Who we are Publications Contact Opportunities and Tenders Regions Africa Asia Europe/Central Asia Latin America Middle East/North Africa Key topics Innovation for Dialogue MIL Media Safety Media and Journalism Education Media viability Insights In focus Tools Library Impact Education International Media Studies Traineeship Training Workshops and Coaching Communications consulting Journalism Training Get in touch FAQ Who we are Publications Contact Opportunities and Tenders Home Climate change and the media From the Amazon to Dubai: Community and indigenous media head to the COP climate summit DW Akademie and the Brazilian NGO Saúde e Alegria send communicators from the Brazilian Amazon, one of the regions most affected by climate change, to cover the negotiations at the COP28 in Dubai. Aboard a small boat that braves the waters of the mighty Tapajós River, a tributary of the Amazon River in Brazil, ten journalists from different parts of the Brazilian Amazon head toward the city of Santarém. They are the participants that were selected for the final event of the "Get Ready for the COP!" project: travelling to Dubai to cover COP28, the United Nations conference on climate change. The DW Akademie and Projeto Saúde e Alegria project aims to provide local journalists and communicators with tools to practice climate journalism. Prior to this first face-to-face meeting, around 30 reporters from the Brazilian Amazon took part in a virtual course that covered the impacts of climate change in the region, international climate agreements and the basics of climate journalism. Their journalism can then go on to provide citizens with tools for climate action. In Santarém, a select group of ten people from the participant pool are learning about the local reality of the effects of climate change on the Brazilian Amazon. Fortified with the knowledge they will glean from conversations with local scientists and journalists and members of traditional communities, as well as environmental activists, such as Tica Minami, head of the Amazon campaign at Greenpeace Brazil, they will embark on their journey to Dubai. The group of journalists, communicators and editors prepare for their trip to Dubai The Amazon, epicenter of climate change effects The group's meeting place is Saúde e Alegria's headquarters in Santarém, a city of 400,000 inhabitants located at the mouth of the Tapajós River in the Amazon River. Normally, this place is a veritable sea of rivers: the Tapajós alone reaches a width of about ten kilometers. But the extreme drought in the area is making it difficult for the journalists' boat to cross the river to an agroforestry experimentation center on the other bank. Dodging jutting rocks and sandbanks, the ferryman tells the participants that he has never seen the river so low in his 15 years of work. When the boat runs aground, there is still more than a hundred meters to go to reach the shore. The group of journalists must wade to the beach with their luggage, running the risk of being stung by poisonous stingrays hiding in the sand. The main culprits of the climate crisis are industrialized countries, but regions such as the Amazon suffer the most from its impacts Unfortunately the low water is not an exception, but rather an example of how climate change affects life in the Amazon region. In Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas, the lowest water level in history has been recorded this year. Drought alternates with periods of torrential rains and severe flooding: climatic extremes that are now part of everyday life for riverine communities. "Get Ready for the COP!" focuses on journalists from these communities. COP28: From global to local One of the participants selected to travel to COP28 is Ray Baniwa, an indigenous communicator from the Baniwa people living on Brazil's border with Venezuela and Colombia. Currently, he is researching the impacts of climate change on the indigenous communities of the Rio Negro, some 1,600 kilometers upstream from Santarém. "My goal is to learn how to combine the data handled by indigenous researchers in the area with geo-satellite information," Baniwa explained. Five Brazilian media editors support the group with their areas of expertise, from data journalism to audiovisual production, to podcasting. Of particular interest to Baniwa, for example, is the experience of Gustavo Faleiros, a pioneer of environmental journalism in the region and founder of the independent media organization InfoAmazonia. Faleiros has extensive experience in the use of satellite images to document environmental issues and in covering international negotiations. After the preparatory meeting, the journey to COP28 in Dubai begins. From there, the team will take on the challenge of translating the complexity of such a conference into a language understandable to their communities, using the lessons learned at "Get Ready for the COP!" Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Climate journalism for climate action Journalism has a responsibility to cover the climate crisis, its causes and its consequences in different parts of the planet, especially in vulnerable areas such as the Amazon. Yet it also has the opportunity to show real instances of successful action to reduce the severity of the impacts. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Learning to communicate from the Amazon DW Akademie and the Brazilian NGO Saúde e Alegria have launched a project to prepare Brazilian journalists and communicators to cover the climate crisis, both locally, from the Amazon, and globally, from the climate negotiations in the United Arab Emirates. This project offers a virtual and an in-person course and concludes at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Expressing the complexity of climate change The training was attended by media and science professionals who exchanged tools to learn about and transmit the climatic and environmental reality of the Amazon and the measures available to reduce the impacts. Lucas Vaz Peres, professor of meteorology at the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará in Santarém, gave an introduction to the complexity of climate in the Amazon. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Amazon region experiences water scarcity Santarém is a city located at the confluence of the great Amazon and Tapajós rivers, which hundreds of thousands of people depend on to transport basic commodities such as food and medicine. However, the Brazilian Amazon is experiencing a historic drought that is pushing its inhabitants to the limit. In 2023, water levels in the Tapajós River were the lowest ever recorded. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Global production, local impact Brazil is the world's largest producer and exporter of soybeans, but the expansion of soybean plantations is the second biggest direct cause of deforestation in the country, increasing the environmental and climate crisis. The photo shows the cargo terminal at the river port of Santarém, from where the grain is exported. Soybeans are mainly exported to produce animal feed. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit A destructive combination of factors Hundreds of forest fires on the banks of the Amazon River can be seen from the above. October 2023 saw the largest fires in the region in 15 years, according to Infoamazonia. These fires spread more easily due to increased temperature and drought, yet are often intentionally set to make way for cattle or soybean plantations. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Transforming production to safeguard Amazonia The Agroforestry Experimentation Center, managed by Saúde e Alegria, explores economic alternatives that are less damaging to the Amazon region. For example, they improve the viability of small-scale production of indigenous crops. This farmer washes the fruit of the bacaba palm to make juice, an agroforestry initiative that takes advantage of Amazonian biodiversity without overexploiting it. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Learning to use data and tell stories Environmental journalist Gustavo Faleiros (left), founder of the InfoAmazonia portal, is part of the group of media professionals who have supported the participants of "Get Ready for the COP!" on their way to COP28. He is accompanied by journalist Tayna Silva, who investigates ancestral strategies used by Amazonian communities to cope with changes in the climate. Amazon community journalists prepare for the UN climate summit Preparing to cover the COP28 Luiza Cilente, DW Akademie's project officer in Brazil, talks with students such as Ray Baniwa, an indigenous communicator from the Baniwa people. During the course in Santarém, Cilente accompanied the training of the group of Amazonian communicators and laid the necessary groundwork for their participation in the COP28 climate summit, the culmination of the "Get Ready for COP!" project. For the journalists and their communities, this is just the beginning: Brazil will host the UN climate summit in 2025. Ten years after the Paris Agreement, Belém, a metropolis at the mouth of the Amazon River, will become the capital of climate negotiations. This will be an unmissable opportunity to expand the diversity of voices heard from the Amazon. The "Get ready for the COP!" project is funded by the German Federal Foreign Office. DW recommends Journalism to save the rainforest Environmental conflicts are coming to a head in the countries of the Amazon basin. Illegal mining and deforestation are rapidly destroying local livelihoods with repercussions for the global climate. The Amazon - The challenge of communicating diversity. The cases of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. This study offers key data on the diverse characteristics of the Amazon region in order to better understand the communication processes there and identify the needs, best practices and perspectives for the future. Amazon community...