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Climate ChampionUCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability has named bioacoustics researcher Zuzana Buřivalová the 2026 Pritzker Emerging Environmental Genius Award winner, a $100,000 prize for innovators under 40.
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Climate ChampionJack Dangermond, the president of global mapping technology company Esri, has received California's 30×30 Champion Award for his leadership in science, technology, philanthropy and partnership — advancing the state's landmark conservation goal of protecting 30 percent of its lands and coastal waters by 2030. Award presented at the 30×30 Partnership 2026 Summit The award was
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Climate ChampionThe Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has received the AfriGEO Weather, Climate and Early Warning Services Award, one of the continent's leading recognitions for climate resilience work, in honour of its use of weather, climate and Earth-observation data to strengthen early warning systems and protect communities from extreme weather. Award presented in Abuja The award was
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Climate ChampionKey facts Who: Six young environmental leaders from the United States, Mexico and Canada What: Named winners of the 2026 Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership Announced by: Earth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative, on 6 October 2026 Ceremony: Monday 19 October 2026, Berkeley, California Why it matters: Now in its 27th year, the award
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Climate ChampionFrom AGRA's Climate and Productivity Champion award in Kigali to Dane County's 73 climate champions and Ohio's 2026 Clean Energy Champions Awards: an explainer on the people and programs turning climate pledges into measurable action.
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Climate ChampionWorldwide Fruit has been named Climate Champion of the Year at the 2026 FPC Fresh Awards in London for its Model Farm approach to regenerative, lower-carbon fruit production.
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Climate ChampionCOP31's High-Level Climate Champion Samed Ağırbaş has promised "everyone's COP" in Antalya, where 100,000+ people from 197 countries are expected, and announced a ₺10 billion financing package for zero-waste businesses.
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Climate ChampionLONDON — The winners of the 2026 BREEAM Awards, the built environment’s leading global sustainability honours, were revealed in London on 30 September, putting the spotlight on the people, projects and cities setting the pace on climate action in construction — from a Greek sustainability champion to a historic London palace and a carbon-cutting Dutch
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Climate ChampionWorldwide Fruit Limited has been named Climate Champion of the Year at the 2026 FPC Fresh Awards in London, honoured for its Model Farm approach that turns climate ambition into measurable action across orchards and grower networks.
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Climate ChampionABC News chief meteorologist and climate correspondent Ginger Zee has received the inaugural CGI Climate Champion Award at the Clinton Global Initiative's 2026 Annual Meeting in New York.
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Climate ChampionFormer Fiji President Ratu Wiliame Katonivere, speaking as a Climate Champion at the Pacific Media Summit's Pre-COP31 session in Savusavu, has urged that Pacific indigenous knowledge and community-led climate solutions be placed at the centre of COP31 discussions.
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Climate ChampionSingapore, the United Arab Emirates and Gree's Dong Mingzhu are the inaugural Cool Leaders, recognised by UNEP's Cool Coalition at the Global Cooling Pledge Assembly.
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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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