Al Jazeera correspondent wins UN Climate Change Award
DOHA, December 16, 2015
Al Jazeera’s correspondent won the Prince Albert II of Monaco and UNCA Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change during the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Awards recently.
The award was for four television reports Andrew Thomas made to show how a small island like Samoa was able to attract worldwide attention by organizing a summit to focus on problems that small islands and big countries need to solve to avoid the disaster of climate change, said a statement.
Giles Trendle, acting managing director for Al Jazeera English, said: “We are delighted Andrew Thomas is the Gold Medal Winner for the Prince Albert II of Monaco and UNCA Global Prize for coverage of Climate Change.
"At Al Jazeera English we recognise the importance and urgency of covering environmental and climate change issues, and we are thrilled that Andrew’s outstanding reports have received such recognition.”
Thomas is an Asia-Pacific correspondent for Al Jazeera, based in Sydney. - TradeArabia News Service
