Africa Independent Television, AIT’s climate correspondent, Nkoli Omhoudu, has been selected among 16 journalists from low- and middle-income countries to report from the 31st United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP31, in Antalya, Türkiye.
The fellowship, under the Climate Change Media Partnership, CCMP, will provide selected journalists with access to briefings, expert guidance and high-level engagements during the climate negotiations.
For climate journalists across the developing world, getting close to the negotiations that shape global climate policy can be a major reporting opportunity.
This year, 16 journalists have been selected for the Climate Change Media Partnership fellowship to cover COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye. For AIT’s Nkoli Omhoudu of Nigeria, “This fellowship gives me an opportunity to bring the climate negotiations closer to Nigerian audiences and to report not just what is being negotiated, but what those decisions mean for communities already dealing with climate impacts.”
During the conference, the fellows are expected to participate in orientation sessions, daily briefings, interviews and networking activities designed to strengthen reporting on the climate negotiations.
COP31 will focus attention on the implementation of previous climate commitments, including issues around mitigation, adaptation and climate finance.
The official United Nations Climate Change Conference, UNFCCC, programme confirms that COP31 will take place in Antalya from 9th to 20th November 2026, with negotiations involving COP31 as well as the Kyoto Protocol and Paris Agreement governing bodies.
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For Nigeria, the discussions are particularly significant as communities continue to face the effects of flooding, extreme weather, changing agricultural conditions and other climate-related pressures.
The Climate Change Media Partnership says the fellowship is designed to strengthen reporting from journalists in countries that are often directly affected by climate change but have limited representation at global climate negotiations.
The fellows will join journalists from around the world in Antalya as countries negotiate the next steps in the global response to climate change.
This year, the CCMP’s global open call for applications drew more than 500 applications.
Fellows were selected by a panel of international judges following two rounds of review and interviews with shortlisted applicants.
The fellowship award was announced by the Earth Journalism Network, EJN, a project of Internews, Informed Earth and the Stanley Centre for Peace and Security as part of the Climate Change Media Partnership, CCMP programme.
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