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ClimateMore than 280 young students from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the EU have turned the pressure of looming climate negotiations into working solutions, building 47 prototypes in 60 hours in the European Union's first regional youth climate hackathon — timed to feed fresh youth-led ideas into COP31. Called Climate Hack-tion, the fully online
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ClimateUttar Pradesh's Cabinet has approved a dedicated incentive package for sustainable aviation fuel production from farm waste and municipal refuse, with tiered units and a five-year policy window.
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ClimateThe ACF-AO project closed in Ziguinchor after three years of women-centred mangrove restoration in Senegal's coastal regions.
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ClimateThe Zero Waste Foundation (Sıfır Atık Vakfı) has tied its New York climate diplomacy directly to COP31 in Antalya, joining Türkiye’s new mechanism to support green industrialisation in the world’s Least Developed Countries — with a formal launch expected at the November summit, according to an announcement issued by the foundation on 12 October. From
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ClimateTurkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman confirmed on Wednesday that he has been invited by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to attend the COP31 climate summit in Antalya next month — and that he will travel to the Turkish Mediterranean city. The confirmation came one day after Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides announced his own attendance, meaning
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ClimateCypriot President Nikos Christodoulides confirmed on October 13 that he will attend COP31 in Antalya next month, in what would be the first visit by a Cypriot president to Türkiye in a decade. A day later, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman confirmed his own invitation from President Erdogan. Both announcements settle months of uncertainty over Cyprus's place at the summit.
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ClimateEJN will send ten journalists to New York to cover the first BBNJ High Seas Treaty COP in January 2027. Applications close 27 October 2026.
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ClimateCambridge has extended weekly food-waste collections to more than 23,000 additional homes, taking the total past 90,000 households — a milestone the city councils say shows food waste recycling turning kitchen scraps into electricity and fertiliser instead of landfill emissions. From 13 October 2026, households across Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire received silver pest-proof food-waste
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ClimateThe International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) warned on 13 October 2026 that the global energy transition is "under stress" — and says installed renewable power capacity must grow from 5.2 terawatts today to around 38.2 terawatts by 2050 to stay on a 1.5°C-compatible pathway. The warning comes in IRENA's 2026 World Energy Transitions Outlook (WETO),
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ClimateThis week, climate action is being built not in negotiation halls but in city halls, university rooms and community centres. From 12 to 18 October 2026, cities around the world are joining Global Climathon Days — a coordinated wave of citizen ideathons where ordinary residents co-create solutions to their own city's climate challenges. And in
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ClimateThe world's largest alliance of cities fighting climate change has appointed three new mayors to its leadership board, giving South Asia, Latin America and Europe new champions for urban climate action just weeks before the COP31 climate summit in Antalya. The Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy (GCoM) announced on 12 October 2026
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ClimateGreenfield Community College has received the 2026 Clean Energy Workforce Development Champion award from the Alliance for Climate Transition for expanding access to clean energy careers.
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More than 280 young students from Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific and the EU have turned the pressure of looming climate negotiations into working solutions, building 47 prototypes in 60 hours in the European Union's first regional youth climate hackathon — timed to feed fresh youth-led ideas into COP31. Called Climate Hack-tion, the fully online
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Green JournalismClimate journalism matters more than ever: 1,200+ entries competed in the 2026 Covering Climate Now awards. An explainer on the craft's vital role.
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Green JournalismCANADA. The Equality Fund has opened applications for its inaugural Journalism Fellowship, a new opportunity designed to support working journalists in Global South countries who report on local solutions to global crises — including the climate crisis — through a gender lens. The fellowship, launched in partnership with Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) and
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Green JournalismThe Solutions Journalism Network and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have opened applications for the SJN/MIT Climate Journalism Fellowship 2027, an eight-month programme that will give ten local and regional U.S. journalists a $7,500 stipend each to report on climate solutions in their own communities. Applications close at midnight on 26 October 2026. What the
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Green JournalismAwareness article: Climate reporting is one of the most dangerous beats in modern journalism. UNESCO data shows that environmental journalists are attacked, threatened and in some cases killed for their work — and that protecting the press is a prerequisite for protecting the planet. Journalists who investigate illegal logging, poaching, pollution and the climate crisis
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Green JournalismWASHINGTON – The Washington Post’s sweeping investigation into the world’s rising flood danger, Floods Above, has won the inaugural Poynter Journalism Prize for Excellence in Climate Change Reporting, a new award for scientifically grounded climate journalism announced by the Poynter Institute. The prize, sponsored by the Hennecke Family Foundation, recognizes rigorous reporting that enlightens and
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Green JournalismLECCE: Italy's Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) has named Agence France-Presse's "Future of the Planet" desk and Sky TG24 Deputy Editor-in-Chief Daniele Moretti as the winners of the 2026 Romeo Bassoli Award for scientific journalism on climate and sustainability. The prize will be presented on Thursday, 15 October, in Lecce during the Conversazioni sul
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Green JournalismThe European Parliament has shortlisted ten investigations — including probes into data centres' environmental toll and green investment funds — for the 2026 Daphne Caruana Galizia Journalism Prize. The winner is announced on 21 October in Strasbourg.
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