Climate Action
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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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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Bangladesh will press developed countries at COP31 in Antalya to provide climate finance as grants rather than loans, State Minister Shama Obaed Islam said at a Dhaka briefing on 2 November.
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Green JournalismUN-OHRLLS has opened a fully funded journalism fellowship for reporters from 44 least developed countries to cover the Doha Programme of Action Midterm Review in Doha on 25-27 March 2027. Applications close 30 November 2026; ten fellows will be selected.
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Green JournalismCanada and United Nations University experts brief journalists on 2 November 2026, a week before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye.
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Green JournalismStephanie Wallcraft has won the 2026 AJAC Environmental Journalism Award for her article on Natural Resources Canada's Fuel Consumption Guide, with Nadine Filion as runner-up.
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Green JournalismGrist has launched Distorted, a months-long reporting series on how misinformation spreads before, during and after extreme weather, and how trusted journalism can help communities find the truth.
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Green JournalismThe UN's first comprehensive restoration assessment, published on 29 October 2026, gives climate journalists a verifiable global scorecard: 252 million hectares under restoration across 149 countries, but finance must more than quadruple to meet 2030 targets.
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Green JournalismToxic Ground, a cross-border investigation into hidden landfill sites across Europe, has been shortlisted in the Environment and Energy category of the British Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismTürkiye's communications chief Burhanettin Duran urges solutions-focused climate reporting ahead of COP31 in Antalya, warning against 'green fatigue', as 1,400 of about 3,000 press accreditations are completed.
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Green JournalismThe Society of Environmental Journalists has opened book entries for its 25th annual awards for reporting on the environment. Books published in 2025 or 2026 are eligible, with the standard deadline on 21 December 2026.
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