DEADLINE: EJN Asia Pacific Media Grants 2025

In 2024, countries across the Asia Pacific experienced scorching heatwaves and droughts and grappled with monsoon rains that triggered catastrophic floods and landslides.

According to the Asian Development Bank, climate impacts alone could lead to a 17% GDP drop across Asia and the Pacific by 2070 under a high carbon emissions scenario, which could rise to 41% of GDP by the end of the century.

And as the climate crisis accelerates, it exacerbates challenges across the region: claiming lives, threatening livelihoods and children’s educations, increasing the burden of poverty, food insecurity and disease, and further destabilizing ecosystems and biodiversity.

These interconnected global crises pose a grave threat to vulnerable nations, and existing funding commitments do little to meet the need for adaptation, mitigation and resilience.

To boost public awareness of these issues — and the urgent need for cross-sectoral solutions — the Earth Journalism Network is pleased to announce a new round of media grants through its Asia-Pacific Phase 2 project, which aims to boost the quantity and quality of environmental coverage in the region and amplify the perspectives of at-risk communities.

This round of grants will be focused on supporting media outlets, journalism institutions and other organizations that work directly with media or content creators in the Asia-Pacific region. Applicant organizations must be legally permitted to receive grants from foreign organizations.

Civil society organizations, community-based groups and research institutions will not be eligible for this round.

For the purpose of this call, we are only accepting applications from low-and middle-income countries in the Asia-Pacific region. We are unfortunately unable to accept applications from Pakistan and Central Asian or Middle Eastern countries.  

This grant fund has US$100,000 available for awards this year, which would ideally be shared among 5-6 projects. The grant amount can range between US$15,000 to US$20,000 depending on the scope of the proposed activities.

EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, plagiarism and submitting AI-generated content as their own.

Deadline: January 30, 2025 @ 11:59 PM (Pacific/Niue)

More information.