The general director of SIGRE Medicines and Environment, Miguel Vega, and the president of EFE, Miguel Angel Oliver, have expressed this Tuesday, in which Earth Day is commemorated, the importance of environmental journalism at a time of growing climate disinformation.
This was during the renewal of the scholarship programme on environmental journalism and ecological transition, developed by both entities and now in its twelfth consecutive edition.
"After more than a decade promoting this scholarship together with the EFE Agency and its School of Journalism, we are convinced that environmental journalism is more necessary than ever. In 2025 we renew this commitment with the same enthusiasm as on the first day, aware that rigorous information is key to protecting the health of the planet and, with it, the health of people," said Vega.
Vega also highlighted how "the triple planetary crisis is one of the greatest concerns of our time, along with misinformation and hoaxes. Therefore, from SIGRE, as the largest environmental alliance of the health sector in Spain, we continue to support this scholarship, which allows to train journalists specialised in environment and ecological transition with a rigorous approach and based on scientific evidence".
For his part, Oliver referred to EFE's public service vocation in "a field such as environmental and scientific journalism, something that forms part of its news DNA and which has been reinforced with climate verification, from EFEverifica, and the specialisation of new journalists through EFEescuela".
In this sense, he highlighted the alliance with SIGRE, "an initiative that connects with the SDG 17 of the United Nations, which helps to train journalists in one of the key issues for a citizenry that demands quality information on issues such as the climate and biodiversity crisis or the ecological transition, which are complex".
The agreement signed today is a continuation of the specialisation programme in environmental information launched by SIGRE and EFEverde.com, through the EFE School of Journalism in February 2012.
The nine-month scholarship of 600 euros gross per month allows a student, in the last two years of Information Sciences or postgraduate, to take an internship in the newsroom of EFEverde.com in the Digital Content Directorate, on topics covering biodiversity loss, climate crisis, circular economy, ocean degradation, invasive alien species or waste management, among others.
The signing of the renewal of the agreement, at the headquarters of EFE in Madrid, was also attended by the director of Communication and Sustainability SIGRE, Mario Zarzuela; the director of the School of Journalism of EFE, Carlos Gosch; and the director of EFEverde.com, Arturo Larena.
12th SIGRE/EFEverde/EFEescuela 2025 Environmental Journalism Scholarship Call for Entries
Ecological calendar. Dates set for a more environmentally friendly 2025