As South Asia Director of the Third Pole Project, run jointly by China Dialogue and Internews’ Earth Journalism Network, Joydeep Gupta writes and commissions articles on climate change, biodiversity, pollution, and sustainable development for the bilingual environmental news website www.thethirdpole.net. He is a lead trainer at workshops for environmental journalists from South Asia and Southeast Asia. Gupta has covered the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, UN climate summits since 2007 and the biodiversity summit in Nagoya. He has reported for the Indo-Asian News Service, The Statesman, The Sunday Observer and Sunday Mail, and is the Vice President of the Forum of Environmental Journalists in India. For his contributions to environmental journalism, Gupta won the 2012 Green Globe Award at the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit. Joydeep teaches Environment and Climate Journalism at Jindal Global University. He holds a Masters in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management from the University of York (UK).