Raul Cazan
Romania

For more than five years, Raul is communicating EU’s policies in biodiversity and climate change as Editor-in-Chief of the cross-media environmental portal, 2Celsius Network, a product among few of this kind in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently he is collaborating with the Brussels based European Journalism on issues related to reporting climate change. He is covering for different media in Central and Eastern Europe. Raul holds two Master’s Degrees in social sciences from the prestigious Central European University Budapest and University of Trento, Italy, encompassing research in environmental communication and media studies. He is also a constant collaborator on multimedia projects of the World Wildlife Fund, Transport & Environment, and other pan-European groups. For a few years he acted as an environmental consultant in Brussels and recently co-authored a book on ecological connectivity in the EU.

Project: Communism against Nature 
CaN is an international project that uses multimedia in order to get the public acquainted with a topic less frequently discussed in the context of totalitarian regimes: environmental destruction in communist regimes and how environmentalism contributed to the collapse of socialist states.