Organiser
Current sustainability challenges cut across Asia Pacific, with climate change, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation affecting multiple countries and communities in the region. Geopolitical tensions and conflict, most recently the war on Iran, are adding to these pressures.
Now in its fourth season, SMA will explore the importance of intersectional and cross-border storytelling, highlighting how climate stories extend far beyond the realm of environmental journalism.
Held virtually on 7-8 May 2026, it will touch on how the Iran war’s disruption of liquefied natural gas supplies exposes Southeast Asia’s risky fossil-fuel expansion and fragile energy security, casting light not only to the urgency of the renewable energy shift but how it affects everything from food prices to gendered labour migration.
Based on these timely themes, reporters from all sectors such as business, finance, law, as well as photojournalism, can enrich their work by examining how environmental issues traverse those of gender, inequality, and economic development.
