Green Prospects Asia shortlisted as finalist in the Asian Environmental Journalism Awards 2012

Green Prospects Asia has been shortlisted as one of the finalists for the Toyota Excellence in Environmental Reporting by a Media Organisation award, one of three categories under the Asian Environmental Journalism Awards 2012 organised by the Singapore Environment Council (SEC).

The other five organisations are Asian Geographic Magazines Pte Ltd, Eco WALK the Talk, Eco-Business.com, Singapore Press Holdings and Agence France Presse.

With its aim to recognise and reward excellence in environmental journalism at all levels, the SEC’s inaugural awards highlight exceptional journalistic work of citizen journalists, outstanding professional journalists and environmental attitudes of overall media organisations.

SEC also received 12 applications for the Coca-Cola Environmental Story of the Year category and 13 applications for the CDL Environmental Journalist of the Year category.
Six applications in each category were shortlisted as finalists. They are:

Coca-Cola Environmental Story of the Year

• Reji Joseph, Rashtra Deepika, "Mineral Sand Mining Eradicating Villages"
• Kristine L Alave, Philippine Daily Inquirer, "Sendong Disaster Foretold 3 Years Ago"
• Grace Chua, The Straits Times, "Group told to clear out 'farm' on state land"
• Augustine Anthuvan, Channel News Asia, "Green Financing, Clean Energy & Sustainable Development"
• John B Weller, Asian Geographic Magazine, "Forbearance"
• Mogjan Jamshidi, Shargh Newspaper, "Aral disaster in waiting Urmia Lake in Iran"

City Developments Limited (CDL) Environmental Journalist of the Year

• Rachel Kelly, Channel News Asia
• Wayne Chan, MediaCorp
• Jenny Marusiak, Eco-Business.com
• Arthur Joseph Paul Alipio, Cordillera Conservation Trust
• Jessica Cheam, The Straits Times
• Grace Chua, The Straits Times

The nine judges for the awards were:

1. Dr Kashyap Choksi, managing director, Conservation International Singapore
2. Dr Lee Bee Wah, Government Parliamentary chairman for the Environment and Water Resources and National Development and Member of Parliament for Nee Soon GRC, Singapore
3. Desmond Wong, general manager, Toyota Singapore
4. Jose Raymond, executive director, Singapore Environment Council
5. Mah Bow Tan, MP for Tampines GRC and former Minister for the Environment and National Development, Singapore
6. Nicholas Fang, executive director, Singapore Institute of International Affairs, former Mediacorp and Singapore Press Holdings correspondent
7. Esther An, general manager (corporate affairs) and head (CSR), executive assistant to MD, CDL
8. June Kong, public affairs & communications director, Coca-Cola Singapore
9. Nadya Hutagalung, founder, Green Kampong

The winners will be announced on August 23 at Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel.