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Climate ActionKenya has launched the first draft of a new National Environment Policy, with 2035 targets of a 35% emissions cut and 30% protected land. The draft replaces the 2013 policy and is open for 21 days of public participation before final adoption.
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Climate ActionThe United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a virtual public hearing on 1–2 October 2026 on its proposed full repeal of greenhouse-gas standards for fossil-fuel-fired power plants, a proposal that has drawn strong opposition from states and environmental groups and is already the subject of active litigation. FAKTA The 1–2 October 2026 hearing concerned
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Climate ActionThe OceanEye International Alliance was launched at UNGA81 in New York, with more than 30 countries pledging at least €211 million to sustain the Global Ocean Observing System that underpins weather forecasts, climate predictions and maritime safety.
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Climate ActionCOP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia face growing pressure to put fossil-fuel language on the agenda in Antalya, after the presidency's listed priorities omitted the transition away from fossil fuels.
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Climate ActionThe COP31 Presidency picked Pakistan among five BRIDGE pilot countries and launched the SURFF city resilience finance facility at New York Climate Week.
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Climate ActionThe UN has adopted its first Declaration on Sea-Level Rise, affirming that sinking island nations keep their statehood, sovereignty and maritime zones even as seas rise.
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Climate ActionAt the 17 September Global Cooling Pledge Assembly in Singapore, UNEP unveiled the inaugural Cool Leaders awards, a Global Roadmap on Heat Resilience, and a US$36m Nature for Cooling Challenge as cooling demand surges toward 5.6 billion air conditioners by 2050.
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Climate ActionWMO's State of Global Water Resources report (17 September 2026) finds 2025 among the driest years for river discharge in 35 years, with global terrestrial water storage declining since the mid-2010s and every major glaciated region losing ice.
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Climate ActionIceland's glaciers hold 3,400 km³ of ice — about 9 mm of potential sea-level rise — and have lost 540 gigatonnes since 1890, with nearly half the loss after 1994; a strong-warming scenario could wipe out a third of their volume by 2100.
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Kenya planted over 3.3 million trees in one hour under the Green Challenge on Mazingira Day, passing two billion trees on its national dashboard toward the 15-billion goal by 2032.
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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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