Ugochi Anyaka
Environmental Journalist

Ugochi Anyaka is a passionate award winning Free lance environmental journalist with a focus on development and climate change. She has won the Young Environmental Journalist award by UNEP (United Nations Environmental Programme) for a story on how a young man in Mpape community in Abuja is converting waste paper into briquettes to produce energy for cooking. She also won a fellowship for the climate change media partnership (CCMP) and also had the opportunity to cover the COP16 (United Nations Climate Change Conference) in Cancun, Mexico through the support of the CCMP. She also won the United Nations Framework Convention on climate change (UNFCCC) clean development mechanism (CDM) African Radio Contest in 2011. Ugochi enjoys sparking debates on climate change and sustainable living through her radio shows, on Twitter and via her blog Eco Nigeria. http://greennigeria.wordpress.com/

 

 

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