Green Youth
Green YouthEuropean Commissioner for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth Wopke Hoekstra has pledged to support greater youth involvement in climate policymaking after meeting 16 young people from across Europe ahead of the COP31 UN climate conference, according to reports from the meeting. The Youth Policy Dialogue on COP31 took place on 1 October 2026 in Brussels,
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Green YouthEarth Island Institute's New Leaders Initiative has announced the six recipients of the 2026 Brower Youth Awards for Environmental Leadership — young activists aged 19 to 21 from the United States, Mexico and Canada whose projects range from restoring native habitats and protecting pollinators to turning waste into clean energy and passing a record school
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Green YouthThe Children and Youth Pavilion at COP31 has opened applications for young climate leaders to serve as COP31 youth spokespersons. Deadline: 11 October 2026.
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Green YouthANTALYA, Türkiye — In less than a month, the world's largest gathering of children and young people focused on climate change will open its doors in Antalya. This is an explainer: COY21, the 21st Conference of Children and Youth on Climate Change, takes place on 5–7 November 2026, immediately before the UN climate summit COP31,
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Green YouthFifteen young Canadians take Ottawa to court on Oct 26 in Vancouver’s Federal Court, arguing insufficient emissions cuts violated their Charter rights — Canada’s first federal youth climate trial.
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Green YouthChicago's new Youth Climate Action Fund offers microgrants of $1,000–$5,000 to young people aged 15–24 for neighborhood climate projects. Applications close 6 November 2026.
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Green YouthThe Swedish youth climate group Aurora is again taking the Swedish government to court over its climate duties, with Greta Thunberg's backing — the Chancellor of Justice has cleared a reworked case for a main hearing in Stockholm District Court in autumn 2027.
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Green YouthNADI, Fiji — More than 60 young climate leaders from Australia, New Zealand and Pacific Island nations concluded a three-day youth climate dialogue in Nadi, Fiji, on 3 October 2026 — and are now carrying a youth declaration into the Pacific Pre-COP31 summit opening in the same city today. Three days of youth dialogue in
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Green YouthYouth representatives confronted Europe's lawmakers at PACE on 1 October 2026, demanding faster climate action, protection of young people's rights and a real seat at the table — the Assembly adopted Resolution 2679 and Recommendation 2316.
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Green YouthCOP31 in Antalya will devote a full thematic day to children, youth, education and skills as the Republic of Türkiye becomes the 100th member country of UNESCO's Greening Education Partnership.
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Green YouthYouth representatives from across Europe have called on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to accelerate climate action and back a binding treaty on the right to a healthy environment.
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Green YouthUNDP's Youth4Climate Mentorship Programme 2026 pairs youth-led climate innovators with experienced professionals for six months of one-to-one mentorship, masterclasses and scale-up support.
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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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