Global Climate Media Network urges world leaders to ensure climate justice

The Global Climate Media Network (GCMN) has urged the global community to ensure climate justice by providing necessary support to the developing world to mitigate climate impacts.

The network, formed during the COP29 in Azerbaijan's capital Baku as a global platform for climate journalists to disseminate climate information and ensure equity, made the call in its first meeting, according to a press statement today (4 December).

At the meeting, the GCMN stressed the "need for ensuring proper monitoring in the global arena so that the developing world carries out its commitments towards the poorer nations for a better and sustained world".

Discussants in the meeting expressed their dissatisfaction over the outcome of COP29 saying that it fell far short of goals for climate finance.

COP29 failed to reach an agreement on how to follow up on fossil fuels, they lamented.

They hoped that the focus of COP30 in Brazil should be to ensure that the voluntary commitments due in 2025 align with the target of keeping global temperature below 1.5°C above preindustrial levels, a threshold reflected in the 2015 Paris Agreement.

GCMN Convenor Md Habibur Rahman of Ekattor Television, Bangladesh presided over the meeting, while Ibrahim Khalilullah of CNN Academy, Bangladesh moderated.

Various civil society leaders, including Sharif Jamil, member of the Board of Directors of Waterkeeper Alliance, Zakir Hossain Khan, CEO of Change Initiative, Professor Kamruzzaman Majumder, founder chairman of CAPs, GCMN Member Secretary Borhanul Ashekin of Channel 24, Elisa Cabiale, editorial staff of ImprontaZero, Italy, Mohammad Azizur Rahman of The Financial Express and Shamim Jahangir of JustEnergyNews also spoke in the GCMN meeting.