Athar Parvaiz

With a Masters’ Degree in Journalism and Mass Communication, Athar Parvaiz is an award-winning environmental Journalist based in the Himalayan state of Jammu & Kashmir. His articles appear in a number of national and international news outlets like Thomson Reuters, Inter Press Service, Hindustan Times, Business Standard, The Thirdpole, scidev.net, India Climate Dialogue, Scroll.in, IndiaSpend, The Wire, The Quint, rediff.com and many Srinagar-based English newspapers. Over the past several years, Athar has extensively written on environment and climate change. He has covered the global climate change negotiations twice from Copenhagen and Paris and has participated in a number of international and national environmental conferences besides earning over a dozen fellowships mostly on environment and climate change. He tweets @AtharParvaiz and can be contacted on atharparvaiz.ami@gmail.com