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Ahead of the UN Climate Change Summit #COP21 in Paris, 25 media organisations from around the world have created a new publishers network to collaborate on their coverage of climate change. The initiative is coordinated by the Global Editors Network. The Climate Publishers Network (CPN) will provide a mutual syndication of articles related to climate change free of charge during the run-up to COP 21. Each media organisation will be able to re-publish material without having to worry about license fees. The aim of the collaboration is to widen each publisher’s spectrum of coverage between now and the UN Climate Change Summit in December. Climate change is a topic many news organisations around the world would like to cover more often, but for which they don't necessarily have the resources. The 25 CPN founding partners, brought together by The Guardian, El País and the Global Editors Network, will run this initiative for a sixmonth period, ending on 11 December - the final day of the UN Climate Change Summit. The founding partners (logos below) represent a variety of political leanings - from China Daily in China to Politiken in Denmark, from Al Ahram in Egypt to Clarín in Argentina - and are based all over the world: Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Europe and the Middle East. Alan Rusbridger, Editor-in-Chief of the Guardian, Antonio Caño, Editorin-Chief at El País and Ricardo Kirschbaum, President of the Global Editors Network, are inviting more publishers to join the syndicate: “We very much hope that publications across the political spectrum will join us either in using some of our material or, ideally, offering their own material as well.” Editorial material, as well simple terms and conditions for each publisher, are available from the Climate Publishers Network. A new section will be added for every media partner joining the project.

The Age Australia

Al Ahram Egypt

China Daily China

Clarín Argentina

Der Standard Austria

De Standaard Belgium

El Comercio Peru

El Deber Bolivia

El País Spain

El Watan Algeria

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Germany

Gazeta Wyborcza Poland

The Guardian United Kingdom

India Today India

The Irish Times Ireland

La Presse Canada

La Repubblica Italy

Le Monde France

Le Quotidien de Nouakchott

Politiken Denmark

The Seattle Times United States

The Straits Times Singapore

Stuff New Zealand

Mauritania

The Sydney Morning Herald

Australia

Notes: For operational questions related to CPN, please contact either: Nabeelah Shabbir, The Guardian ([email protected]) Patricia Fernandez de Lis, El País ([email protected]) Contact: Karen Burke, Director of Communications at GEN: [email protected]

The initiative is coordinated by the Global Editors Network.

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