The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) and its fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth, in association with Media for Environment, Science, Health and Agriculture (MESHA), will release “Africa’s Environment Report 2023” next week in Nairobi, Kenya.
Published by the New Delhi-based Down To Earth, this report will be an annual feature from now on, CSE pointed out in a statement.
“The release function will be followed by a two-day media briefing on some of the key aspects that the report covers.”
CSE, a think-tank based in New Delhi, India, which works on some of the key issues and concerns of environment and development in the Global South. Down To Earth is also a fortnightly English magazine that the Centre has been helping publish since the 1990s.
A number of writers, subject experts and journalists from Africa regularly contribute articles and opinions in this magazine.
One of India’s environmental thinkers and writer Sunita Narain who is also the head of CSE and a member of the COP28 UAE Advisory Committee will preside the inaugural book release event.
Free e-copies of the report will be available to African journalists on request from October 1, it was indicated.
The Africa Network Media Cafe is also a new initiative under a partnership between CSE/Down To Earth and MESHA – designed as a series of media briefings on some of the most critical and current survival questions that are dogging the Global South.