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Climate ChampionVanessa Nakate tells Al Jazeera's Talk to Al Jazeera that Africa is paying a high price for a climate crisis it did not create, calling for major polluters to be held accountable.
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Climate ChampionUNEP's Champions of the Earth award and the $25 million Emerging Climate Champions Award are both set to name their 2026 winners this autumn.
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Climate ChampionUNEP named Singapore, the UAE and Gree's Dong Mingzhu as the inaugural Cool Leaders at the Global Cooling Pledge Assembly in Singapore — two countries and one individual, three models of sustainable cooling leadership.
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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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