Applications are open for the EJN Virtual Training for Journalists Reporting on Business and Climate Change 2025. Earth Journalism Network is hosting a virtual media workshop in late August-September for business and finance journalists in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand seeking to strengthen their climate-focused reporting on environmental accountability, financial and industry solutions and informing public demand for change in Asia’s business sector.

Journalists who participate in the workshop will gain a better understanding of: 

• How businesses contribute to climate change through their carbon-intensive practices and the need for greater transparency within the sector
• The economic costs of climate change and the private sector’s role in bridging the climate finance gap
• Existing policies to hold businesses to account for their role in contributing to climate change and mitigating its impacts
• The technicalities of ESG, Net Zero, carbon and plastic offsetting, and the just transition
• Corporate greenwashing and gaps in ESG frameworks (opaque carbon pricing; solely voluntary disclosure of climate-related risks and emissions, etc.)
• How the sector can benefit from the drive toward Net Zero and a just transition, and how to effectively report on these solutions
• The pathways needed to transition toward a green, fair and inclusive economy, including policy support for blended finance and investment in innovative solutions and technologies
• The domestic and international financial resources and mechanisms in place for mitigation, adaptation and loss and damage 

The workshop will be held on August 26, 27 and September 2, 3, 2025. Participants who attend all four days of the workshop will also be eligible to apply for a story grant to produce journalistic work following the workshop

Benefits

• To ensure the workshops are accessible, EJN will offer a limited number of communications stipends to those with an unstable internet connection in remote areas. Indicate in your application whether you will require a communications stipend to ensure Wi-Fi connectivity during the training.  
• Participants who attend all sessions will receive a certificate of completion from EJN. 

Eligibility

• Applicants can be from any of the four target countries: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia and Thailand.  
• For the purposes of this training opportunity, EJN will only be accepting applications in English, Thai and Indonesian. Unfortunately, they do not have the capacity to consider applications in other languages at this time. Applicants must have a working understanding of English, Thai and Indonesian to participate in and fully benefit from the workshop. Simultaneous language interpretation will be provided. 
• Applications are open to journalists working in any medium (online, print, television, radio) and other media practitioners with experience covering business, finance and/or the economy. Experience with climate and energy reporting is welcome but not required.   
• They welcome applications from both staff reporters and freelancers reporting for all types of media organizations—community-based, local national and international. They especially encourage women, rural, Indigenous and early and mid-career journalists to apply.
• Applicants are required to be transparent about the use of generative AI tools, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, submitting AI generated content as their own.  

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Application

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For more information, visit EJN Virtual Training.