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(Ntungwe Ngalame Elias) is a multiple award winning professional journalist and publisher of a bi-monthly Environment and Climate Change Newspaper in Cameroon, Eco-OUTLOOK. He is the Central African regional coordinator for the Pan African Media Alliance for Climate Change, PAMACC,( a network of over 100 African Journalists writing on environment and climate change issues). He has been working as a freelance international journalist  for the past ten years with particular interest in environment and climate change, governance, human rights, agriculture,information technology, science issues, writing for several international media organizations like Thomson Reuters Foundation, The Guardian, InfoCongo, Wren Media,SPORE News,Mongabay.com, Climate Reporters and PAMACC news. He does multi-media news production including videos, audios, maps and data. AWARDS - Elias Ntungwe Ngalame got the first prize (print category) in a national journalism competition on Climate Change reporting organized by the British High Commission- Cameroon in 2010. The award earned him a short training at the Thomson Reuters Foundation -London on climate change reporting in 2010. - In 2013 he won the first ever ACCER (African Climate Change and Environmental Reporting) AWARDS organised by PACJA (Pan African Climate Justice Alliance) in Nairobi- Kenya. He did not only emerge first in the print category but was declared overall best and African Climate change journalist of the year. In 2014 he won the Dicourse Media renewable energy reporting award orgainsed by Discourse Media in Canada. The award earned him a one week training programme in Toronto-Canada.

He has covered many international climate change and environment conferences including COP 19-Poland,COP21 Paris,COP22 Morroco,COP23 Bonn-Germany.

Fellowships Ntungwe Ngalame Elias has bagged so many environment and climate change reporting fellowships.

-	2013 United Nations Environment Programme,UNEP fellow in climate change reporting in Africa, to cover UN General Assembly in Kenya

-	2014 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertfication,UNCCD selected fellow to cover COP 12 in Turkey

-	2014 Deutche Welle Radio(Afrikalinks) selected fellow for two months training in Bonn GERMANY on Environmental reporting.

-	2015 Africa Forest Forum,AFF fellow selected to cover AFF General Assembly in Togo

-	2015 African Development Bank sponsored Fellow to cover COP21 in Paris- France

-	2016 Reporting Africa Water Week conference in Tanzania

-	2017 Selected fellow in the CSE’s Global Media Fellowship Programme on reporting REDD+ in Africa.

-	2017 Selected Fellow of the Wits Africa-China Workshop on Reporting Africa/China Engagements for Journalists t in Addis-Ethopia.

UNFCCC Conference of Parties Coverage -COP19- 2013 Warsaw-Poland -COP21- 2015 Paris- France -Pre COP 23-Bonn-Germany - COP 23 ,Bonn-Germany

Further Training -2010 Training on climate change reporting, Thomson Reuters- London -2013 Training on climate Change Reporting by the Accer Awards Finalist Accademy,TAAFA- Nairobi-Kenya. -2014 Two Months training on community Radio reporting, DW Afrikalinks,Bonn-Germany -2015 One week pre-COP training by Climate and Development Knowledge Network,CDKN in Paris France on understanding the challenges in COP negotiations. -2017 Training on Wits Africa-China Workshop on Reporting Africa/China Engagements in Addis-Ethopia. -	LANGUAGE English- Excellent French- Very Good German- Fair