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Welcome, everyone, to Uncovering Asia: The Second Asian Investigative Journalism Conference. From September 23 to 25, we are bringing together top investigative reporters, data journalists, and media law and security experts from across Asia and around the world.

Below you will find more than 60 sessions and special events. There are panels on digging out hidden facts online, the environment, business, and how to fund your project; seminars on security and tracking dirty money; data journalism workshops by the best in the business; and much more.

You can follow us on Twitter at #IJAsia16. On behalf of your hosts — the Global Investigative Journalism Network, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, and the Centre for Investigative Journalism, Nepal, we wish you a big hello! Namaste!

Friday, September 23 • 11:15 - 12:30
Investigating Climate Change

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Climate change is increasingly cited as the most dire challenge facing the planet today. How can journalists apply the skills of investigative reporting to dig deeper and reveal what's really happening in the field? What is stopping progress on controlling greenhouse gas emissions? Whose financial interests are at stake? Here are three journalists with extensive experience covering climate change, based in Bangladesh, India, and Nepal. 

Moderators
avatar for Subhra Priyadarshini

Subhra Priyadarshini

Editor, Nature India, Nature Publishing Group
Subhra Priyadarshini joined Nature India after a decade-long stint with mainstream Indian media. She took to writing science when in journalism school. Though she chased deadlines to cover politics and sports, fashion and films, crime and natural disasters as a journalist, she kept... Read More →

Speakers
avatar for Rajneesh Bhandari

Rajneesh Bhandari

Multi-media Journalist, Freelance
Rajneesh Bhandari is an independent multimedia journalist and documentary filmmaker from Nepal. He has reported on Nepal’s news and current affairs for the last ten years. His multi-media work on different issues have appeared in the New York Times (NYT), National Geographic (Nat... Read More →
avatar for Joydeep Gupta

Joydeep Gupta

South Asia Director, TheThirdPole.net
Joydeep is an Indian journalist who has been writing on environmental issues since covering the Bhopal disaster in 1984. For his contributions to environmental journalism, he won the 2012 Green Globe Award at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit.
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Abu Siddique

Environment Correspondent, Dhaka Tribune
Abu Bakar Siddique, a Bangladeshi Journalist based in Dhaka. Currently he works for Dhaka Tribune. There, he is responsible for reporting on climate change, biodiversity, water, wildlife, agriculture and other environmental issues. In addition, he writes for thethirdpole.net as a freelancer. Siddique has received many training and fellowships in his carrier. Some of them are-training fellowship on Environmental Reporting from the International Institute for Journalism, Berlin, Germany, and Climate Change Media Partnership fellowship by Earth Journalism... Read More →


Friday September 23, 2016 11:15 - 12:30 GMT+0545
Durbar Hall 1st Floor