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Climate ActionThe European Union will use next month's COP31 climate summit in Turkey to push for agreement on a "package" of efforts to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions heating the planet, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed. The strategy, detailed in a draft prepared by Ireland — which currently holds the EU's rotating presidency
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Climate ActionThe European Union's environment and climate ministers will meet in Luxembourg on Monday 12 October 2026 for an Environment Council session dominated by one question: the EU ETS review — how far should the bloc go in overhauling its carbon market, the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS)? Ministers will also seek to lock in
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Climate ActionABU DHABI – More than 1,000 researchers, policymakers, investors and young innovators gathered this week in Abu Dhabi for the inaugural Abu Dhabi Climate Solutions Summit 2026, a three-day meeting themed 'From Climate Knowledge to Climate Action' aimed at moving climate research out of laboratories and into real-world deployment. FAKTA Event: Inaugural Abu Dhabi Climate
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Climate ActionCanada has unveiled one of the largest home energy programmes in its history: a $2 billion investment over eight years to retrofit one million homes, cutting household heating costs and reducing the country's emissions by more than 25 megatonnes. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the plan on 8 October 2026 in Sherbrooke, Quebec, as a
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Climate ActionFiji, Ireland, the Netherlands and Denmark pledged about $15 million to the Pacific Resilience Facility at the pre-COP ministerial in Nadi, Fiji — but the island-owned fund remains far short of its $500 million target after COP31.
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Climate ActionVerra has approved the first carbon credits under its VM0046 food loss and waste methodology: Brightly’s US food rescue project avoided about 720,000 tonnes of CO2.
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Climate ActionAustralia will spend AUD 7.3 million on grid modelling, technical experts and workforce training to help Pacific nations shift to renewable energy, announced at the pre-COP31 summit in Fiji on 5 October 2026 — alongside a new solar agreement with Vanuatu.
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Climate ActionTokyo hosts the TIME TO ACT FORUM 2026 on 6 October 2026 — cities, countries and international organisations gather on the climate crisis and the energy frontier.
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Climate ActionThe world added a record 693 GW of renewable power capacity in 2025, IRENA and the COP31 Presidency report — but annual installations must rise to about 1,200 GW to triple capacity by 2030.
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Climate ActionThe Philippines has reaffirmed its 75% emissions reduction target under its 2026 NDC and presented a ten-step superpollutant action plan at the CCAC summit in New York.
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Climate ActionThe Philippines' national carbon intensity keeps rising: fossil CO2 is up 25% since 2021, Climate Change Commission chief Robert Borje told corporate executives at the Philippine Net Zero Conference 2026, warning that corporate emissions keep climbing.
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Climate ActionCanada has announced $66.3 million for 162 projects to make homes more energy efficient nationwide, funding community retrofit financing programmes and sustainable affordable housing construction and upgrades.
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The Ocean Cleanup will make Australia and Asia-Pacific its primary focus, directing two-thirds of its effort to Southeast Asia — source of 79% of ocean plastic reaching Australia — while urging 'action and cash' ahead of COP31.
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ClimateGreen 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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Green JournalismWUFT's Rose Schnabel and the Miami Herald's 'Built on Sand' series share the 2026 Waldo Proffitt Award for outstanding environmental journalism, announced 2 October.
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Green JournalismA new international planetary health journalism prize is calling on journalists to report one of the least-covered intersections in climate coverage: how demographic change shapes the health of the planet — and vice versa. The Demographics & Planetary Health Story Prize 2026, hosted by Johns Hopkins University institutions, will award $500 in each of two
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