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Manipadma Jena
Manipadma Jena writes on a range of climate change issues in Asia as a freelance contributor to the Thomson Reuters Foundation. She has covered international climate-related conferences in Islamabad, Chgwon, Yousu, Bangkok, Inner Mongolia and Hyderabad, and won the 2012 best media reporting award at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Climate Change Adaptation Forum in Bangkok.
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