About Teymoor

Chapter 1

Awakening

I started my pivot to green without really knowing it.

I was sitting in the Doha convention centre, a day before the start of COP 2012, interviewing Christiana Figueres, who was then Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC.

What she was telling me - about the state of the planet, about the dangers ahead - was blowing my mind. And as she spoke all I could think about was "How come I haven't heard all of this before? How come we are not all shouting this stuff from the rooftops?"

I knew I had been missing something significant.

Chapter2 Flashback

That encounter also marked my 5th year with the still youthful Al Jazeera English, and my 20th year as a broadcast journalist.

I had ended up in Doha after a journey that had begun in a small radio station in Hong Kong, and which had taken me to Singapore, London, New York and Kuala Lumpur, for stints with CNBC, the BBC and CNN, before arriving in Doha.

During those years I covered a vast spectrum of breaking news stories in the field and in the studio. From 9/11 to the Asian tsunami to the Global Financial Crisis to the Japan earthquake and nuclear meltdown, I watched and reported almost every major event in global news. I interviewed Presidents, Prime Ministers, celebrities , CEOs and war criminals - Kofi Annan, Mahathir Mohammed, Helen Clarke, Jeff Immelt, Bill Gates, Anwar Ibrahim, Goh Chok Tong, Ayatollah Rafsanjani, Nuon Chea, Hun Sen, David Beckham were just a few of the names.

But with digital media taking off I sensed that alternative ways to work were around the corner, and I knew the global conversation also needed to change.

It was time to move on.

Chapter 3

The Trough Of Disillusionment

In 2013 the world of climate journalism, and that of digital media, were in their infancy. Having taken a emotional and mental leap, I found there was no solid ground on which to land.

So when I was approached by Channel News Asia in Singapore to help drive their transition to becoming a regional news platform I saw a stepping stone that could ease my own transition away from broadcasting.

At first, the move seemed like serendipity. That summer, uncontrolled Indonesian wildfires blanketed Southeast Asia in choking smoke - a compelling and very visible argument for greater climate coverage. But my attempts to highlight it ruffled more than a few feathers.

Chapter 4

The Far Horizons

When I left CNA, and broadcasting, in 2016, covering live news was pretty much all I had known for 25 years. My work had given me thousands of hours of experience and expertise in interviewing people, chairing panel discussions, researching and writing stories to tight deadlines, demystifying complex political and economic issues for general audiences. But I still didn't know what role I could play in the Great Climate Change Battle. (Yes, that's how I see it.)

But in the years following, and especially through the COVID years, I have seen ever more people waking up to the realities around them, and millions are asking the same questions - What next? What can I do?

They want to talk about it, and learn about it, and most of all do something about it.

And I want to help them.