Youth Climate Report

Youth Climate Report (YCR) is a crowd-sourced media project — by youth for youth. The project was developed by Neko Harbour Entertainment in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The goal: to encourage grass-roots science journalism among children and youth on the subject of climate change. Participants can get involved in two ways: by registering and contributing to the YCR blog and by applying to be a YCR video reporter. YCR bloggers contribute regular articles, photos and short video reportages on the subject of climate change. Reporters will take on interview duties and be partnered with university and college journalism students, who will act as interview segment producers. Interview teams (video reporter and segment producer) are assigned a climate change scientist or researcher to interview. Teams then go out and do the interview. The interview is cut into a short (2-3 minutes) news report, and the segments screened online at the Youth Climate Report website. This year, the video news segments will also be screened for delegates participating at The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Conference (COP17). The event takes place from November 28 – December 9, 2011 in Durban, South Africa. Youth Climate Report is in its first year of a planned multi-year, ongoing, crowd-sourced multi-platform series.