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# 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
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