# taz.de -- Workshop of the taz Panter Foundation: Green Panter Amazonia | |
> Constructive reporting: The taz Panter Foundation is organizing an | |
> international climate journalism workshop with ten journalists from the | |
> Amazon region. | |
[1][taz Panter Foundation] | The Amazon rainforest plays a crucial role in | |
regulating the global climate. It remains one of the Earth´s most important | |
CO₂ sinks. Encouragingly, deforestation has recently declined—at least in | |
the Brazilian part of the Amazon. However, studies suggest that the region | |
could transform into savannah in the medium term, which would have serious | |
global climate consequences. | |
Public attention will return to the Amazon by November at the latest, when | |
COP 30—the UN Climate Change Conference—takes place in Belém, Brazil, at | |
the mouth of the Amazon River. At a time when climate protection and | |
climate journalism are under growing pressure around the world, even as the | |
climate crisis intensifies, the taz Panter Foundation is launching the | |
international workshop Green Panter Amazonia. | |
We have invited ten journalists from eight countries in the Amazon region – | |
Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela. | |
We will first have a series of webinars with our colleagues from Brazil and | |
Latin America, and then in person for a project week in Berlin in | |
September. There, they will meet representatives from academia, civil | |
society, and the media to exchange ideas and network. | |
## Mental health for climate journalists | |
The webinars will cover key topics such as the role of international | |
corporations in the Amazon, the significance of carbon credit trading for | |
local climate protection, and the spread of organized crime in the region. | |
Other focal points include environmental racism, mental health, stress and | |
trauma management for frontline climate journalists, and the impact of | |
climate reporting—and how it can be improved. | |
The participants will write articles sharing their perspectives on the | |
Amazon´s climate crisis and potential solutions. For us, climate reporting | |
also means highlighting constructive approaches. Their contributions will | |
be featured in a special eight-page supplement of the taz that will be | |
published on Friday, September 12. | |
One day later, on Saturday, September 13, our ten guests from Latin America | |
and Brazil will arrive in Berlin in time for the taz cooperative assembly. | |
On Wednesday, September 17, the public will have an opportunity to meet and | |
engage with them at a special public event hosted by taz. | |
The project is led by journalist Niklas Franzen and Ole Schulz from the taz | |
Panter Foundation. | |
Green Panter Amazonia is supported by the Federal Foreign Office, the | |
Global Strategic Communications Council (GSCC), Misereor and the | |
Umverteilen Foundation. | |
12 May 2025 | |
## LINKS | |
[1] /panter-stiftung/vom-wort-zur-tat/!v=e4eb8635-98d1-4a5d-b035-a82efb835967/ | |
## AUTOREN | |
Niklas Franzen | |
Ole Schulz | |
## ARTIKEL ZUM THEMA |