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Climate EventsSmart City Expo World Congress 2026 opens in Barcelona on 3 November, bringing 1,000 cities, 25,000 attendees and 600 speakers together under the theme Urban Solutions, Real Impact.
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Climate EventsMOP38 opens in Kigali, Rwanda, on 2 November 2026, ten years after the city gave the world the Kigali Amendment, with up to 1,000 delegates deciding the next decade of ozone and climate action.
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Climate EventsThe seventh International Conference on Climate Change brings researchers, officials and experts from 24 countries to Essaouira, Morocco, to turn climate finance, research and nature into practical solutions ahead of COP31.
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Climate EventsThe third One Earth Summit gathered more than 700 participants in Hong Kong on 30 October 2026 to discuss AI, energy, climate, oceans and nature, ten days before COP31 opens in Antalya.
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Climate EventsAll Energy Australia 2026 opened on 28 October at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, bringing 16,500-plus clean energy professionals, 490-plus exhibitors and 500-plus speakers together for two days focused on grids, storage and delivery of the energy transition.
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Climate EventsThe 2026 Lancet Countdown report finds heat deaths at a record high and calls for climate change to be recognised as a global health emergency.
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Climate EventsUNDP Turkmenistan brings young activists, students and professionals together in Ashgabat for a youth conference on climate solutions and environmental innovation, held on 24 October 2026 for United Nations Day.
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Climate EventsThe 14th CC Climate Change Investment Forum meets at London's Mayfair Hotel from 27 to 30 October 2026, launched by Lord Zac Goldsmith at the House of Lords, with climate, energy and sustainable investment on the agenda.
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Climate EventsCOP17 enters its final week in Yerevan with the first global review of the world's nature targets still carrying 149 brackets, as ministers arrive on 27 and 28 October for the high-level segment.
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Climate EventsTwelve days, twelve priorities With just over two weeks to go before the United Nations climate conference opens in Antalya, Türkiye, the COP31 Presidency has set out the full thematic programme for the summit: twelve days, each dedicated to a distinct priority area of climate action, from food and energy to finance and final negotiations.
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Climate EventsIn Yerevan, the first global review of the world's plan to halt nature loss has run into its hardest question: who should pay for it. As the UN Biodiversity Conference, COP17, moves into its decisive week, governments are divided over COP17 biodiversity finance — whether the circle of countries that fund conservation should grow, and
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Climate EventsGlobal leaders, Nobel laureates and senior business executives have gathered in Shanghai for the Sustainability Global Leaders Conference, a three-day meeting that concludes today, 22 October 2026, under the theme of forging a more resilient future. The Sustainability Global Leaders Conference runs from 20 to 22 October in Shanghai’s Huangpu district, bringing together more than
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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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