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Harold Williams
Environmental Journalist Harold Williams is a multi-media producer with on-line and broadcast publications. AFRICANEWS.COM is the publisher of his electronic news. Harold is a contracted News Editor and Producer of ENVIROSCOPE, an environmental awareness programme which has been on air since 1997 at the Sierra Leone broadcasting Service. Harold is the Chairman of the Union of Environmental Journalists, working towards transparent environmental disclosure, since 1996. He is a trainer of journalists certified by the New Partnership for Development-NEPAD, a programme begun in 2006. Harold has been the frontline media partner with the Climate Change Office in Sierra Leone, the country’s Forestry Department and its Environment Division.
Posts by Harold Williams
Green Light for Africa’s Forests if REDD is Agreed
No commentsAfrica has secured little of the wealth being generated in developing countries by the UN’s Clean Development Mechanism. But a new scheme, designed to pay people to keep forests intact, could benefit much of the continent.
»Adaptation pleas fall on deaf ears
No commentsSierra Leone’s coastal residents are being flooded year-on-year. How can this poor country afford to pay for climate change adaptation?
»A Man-made Drought
No commentsPoor communities suffer the most due to floods and water shortages that affect food production. In Sierra Leone, the crops affected include rice, corn, millet and cocoa.
»2050 Climate Targets Become 2350 Targets If…
No commentsShocking are the revelations of some high level climate change experts, who say the time is now for key reduction targets to be set.
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