Climate Champion
Climate ChampionThe 2026 Philippine Resilience Awards in Manila honoured seven women and youth champions for community climate resilience, from disability-inclusive preparedness to island livelihoods.
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Climate ChampionBornface Otieno Owino, 29, wins the 2026 United Nations in Kenya Person of the Year for climate-smart farming, while rugby star Kevin Wekesa is runner-up for Play Green.
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Climate ChampionMaryam Golnaraghi, Director of Climate Change and Environment at The Geneva Association, has been named Climate and Sustainability Champion of the Year 2026 in InsuranceERM's Climate Risk and Sustainability Awards, recognising more than 25 years of leadership in climate risk and resilience.
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Climate ChampionThree grassroots champions — Rokiatou Traoré of Mali, the Women’s Justice Initiative of Guatemala and Mothers of Courage of India — were named the 2026 Heroes of Tomorrow at the UN SDG Action Awards in Rome on 29 October 2026.
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Climate ChampionSam Ifeanyi Onuigbo, sponsor of Nigeria's Climate Change Act 2021, has been honoured with a Fellowship of the Solar Energy Society of Nigeria at the 43rd National Solar Energy Forum, recognising his work on climate advocacy and solar energy.
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Climate ChampionOlam Agri's wood business in the Republic of Congo has won the Biodiversity Champion award at the Reuters Global Sustainability Awards 2026 for sustainable forest management across 2.1 million hectares.
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Climate ChampionThe Recycling Council of Alberta honours retired Cleanfarms Executive Director Barry Friesen with its Circular Champion Recognition Award for a career building agricultural recycling and producer-responsibility programmes across Canada.
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Climate ChampionTen projects from six Latin American countries won Premios Verdes 2026 in Cuenca, Ecuador, including solar boats for Indigenous Amazon communities and restored Andean water systems for Lima.
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Climate ChampionMd Arifur Rahman has received Bangladesh's Youth Volunteer Award 2026 for a decade of work with the boat-dwelling Manta community, disaster-affected families and environmental education.
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Climate ChampionA lifetime award for three decades of climate work Former United States environmental chief Gina McCarthy has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at the Reuters Events Global Sustainability Awards, recognising more than three decades at the forefront of America's work for cleaner air, safer water and a liveable climate. McCarthy, who led the
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Climate ChampionTwenty-five youth-led organisations working in 33 countries have been named winners of the Emerging Climate Champions Award, receiving a flexible, multi-year gift of $1 million each to advance climate solutions in their own communities. The awards, announced on 21 October 2026, form a $25 million global open call funded by the Enlight Foundation and The
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Climate ChampionA laboratory at the University of Oxford has won the top prize at the city's 2026 climate awards, after transforming the way it uses plastic, energy and transport. Raff Lab, based at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, was named overall winner at the third annual Oxford Climate Awards, held at Oxford Town Hall
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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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