Climate Champion
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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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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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
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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