NEELIMA VALLANGI

Neelima Vallangi is an independent climate journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker from India, splitting time between Kathmandu, Nepal and India. Her stories, images and films have been published in The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, Smithsonian.com, Al Jazeera English, BBC, South China Morning Post, The Hindu, etc. With a keen interest in mountain ecosystems and climate change, she specialises in unique stories and in-depth features from the Himalayan region, the Indian subcontinent & South Asia.

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https://neelima.contently.com/

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Deeply inspired by the many months spent among the lofty peaks of the Himalayas over the last decade, the unprecedented changes taking place in the high mountains moved her to exclusively start covering climate change since 2019. She has more than 15 years of experience working in the high altitude Himalayas, and currently builds on that formative experience to deliver impactful stories, media projects and direct documentary films on the emerging challenges of climate change and associated environmental and cultural shifts in these least reported regions, across India and Nepal Himalaya.

She is passionate about demystifying climate change through creative communication, bridging the gap between science and policy through impactful storytelling, spotlighting regional climate experts in global media platforms, and mentoring journalists and storytellers from the Global South to help cover climate change. Her work on climate change spans a documentary film that has been broadcasted to millions, award-winning photo story that is currently part of a worldwide travelling exhibition, short films that have been screened at high-level UN and global policy meets, an easy to understand book on climate change for public and policymakers, and several articles for world’s top media publications covering climate science and climate impacts.

She frequently collaborates with top regional research organisations and academics working on climate change, including scientists at the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), India’s premier engineering and technological institutions, spearheading climate research in the region. She broke the viral story on Venezuela becoming the first country to lose all its glaciers to climate change, for The Guardian, which was then picked up by hundreds of outlets across the world. She has also participated in and organised several public-facing events, giving presentations about climate change, joining panel discussions and screening her work.