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cop31The COP31 climate finance agenda took shape in Istanbul on 4 September 2026, when the summit's presidency used the Istanbul Climate Finance Summit to lay out how money — not just promises — will move countries toward the goals set for the Antalya summit.
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cop31Ministers and climate negotiators from more than 50 countries are gathering in Fiji and Tuvalu this week for the final major ministerial meeting before COP31 — and Pacific leaders are using the moment to demand that the November climate summit in Antalya deliver action, not just promises.
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cop31The European Parliament's Environment Committee has adopted its COP31 draft resolution by 50 votes to 16, demanding a faster fossil fuel phase-out, scaled-up honest climate finance, and stronger support for vulnerable countries ahead of the Antalya summit.
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cop31Pacific leaders, scholars and ministers gathered in Suva, Fiji, on Saturday, October 3, 2026, for the "1.5°C to Stay Alive" forum — a major international event aimed at shaping Pacific priorities ahead of the official COP31 pre-meetings that begin on October 5. The forum's outcomes will feed directl
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cop31COP31 registration is open in the UNFCCC Online Registration System for Parties, observers, UN bodies, IGOs and NGOs.
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cop31COP31 hosts Türkiye and Australia face growing pressure to put fossil-fuel language on the agenda in Antalya, after the presidency's listed priorities omitted the transition away from fossil fuels.
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cop31UNEP'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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cop31The COP31 Presidency picked Pakistan among five BRIDGE pilot countries and launched the SURFF city resilience finance facility at New York Climate Week.
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cop31Türkiye has fixed the COP31 World Leaders' Summit for 11–12 November in Antalya, setting the political centrepiece of the UN climate conference's first week.
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cop31The COP31 Presidency floated the Antalya AI Energy Pledge and a 35×35 pledge — lifting electricity to 35% of final energy by 2035 — at New York Climate Week on 21 September 2026.
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cop31The 81st UN General Assembly's high-level week opened 22 September in New York with climate action and sea-level rise on the agenda — and the EU's blunt draft COP31 conclusions insisting pledges alone are no longer enough.
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cop31PlasticHealthAware — an open-access dashboard launched at INC-5.2 by Boston College and funded by Minderoo — systematically tracks the health harms of five plastic chemical classes, from bisphenols to PFAS, with plastic-related health costs put at ~US$1.5 trillion a year.
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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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