Me­dia prac­ti­tion­ers from across the Caribbean Com­mu­ni­ty gath­ered for a work­shop ti­tled “Re­port­ing Cli­mate Im­pacts in a Cli­mate Jus­tice Con­text” last Wednes­day. The event was host­ed by the Me­dia In­sti­tute of the Caribbean and Cli­mate An­a­lyt­ics Caribbean.

Jour­nal­ists, ed­i­tors, con­tent cre­ators, and stu­dents par­tic­i­pat­ed both in per­son and on­line. The ses­sions fo­cused on strength­en­ing re­port­ing ca­pac­i­ty with em­pha­sis on ac­cu­ra­cy, con­text, and jus­tice frame­works.

Dr James Fletch­er, Cari­com Cli­mate En­voy, high­light­ed the sever­i­ty of cli­mate im­pacts in his home­land of St Lu­cia. He ex­plained that the coun­try is im­port­ing wa­ter from Do­mini­ca due to drought con­di­tions. He not­ed that farm­ers are aban­don­ing crops, schools are clos­ing, and res­i­dents are ex­pe­ri­enc­ing heat-re­lat­ed ill­ness­es.