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Climate ActionThe Asian Development Bank has approved a $72 million package for Cambodia: irrigation for 7,000 more hectares, 190 kilometres of roads and resilience for about 200,000 smallholder farmers, with women at the centre.
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Climate ActionCanada carbon markets working group has held its first meeting: federal, provincial and territorial governments have launched a new working group to boost cooperation on carbon markets across Canada, the Government of Canada announced on 23 October 2026. The group brings together representatives from each province and territory plus the federal government. Its job is
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Climate ActionFirst global system to count heat's toll on the youngest Four United Nations agencies have launched the first-ever heat health indicators to help countries track how extreme heat harms pregnant women, newborns and children, and to act before the next heatwave turns into a health emergency. The framework was announced on 21 October 2026 by
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Climate ActionThe European Parliament COP31 mandate was adopted on Thursday, 22 October, setting out what the Parliament wants the European Union to push for at the COP31 climate talks in Antalya, Türkiye, from 9 to 20 November. The mandate demands faster climate action on fossil fuels, finance and vulnerable countries, and it was adopted by a
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Climate ActionThe world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate limit, but deep and fast emission cuts can still bring temperatures back below that threshold by the end of the century, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) says in its new UNEP Emissions Gap Report 2026. The report, titled The Point of Return and published on Wednesday 21
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Climate ActionThe European Commission on 19 October 2026 awarded more than €390 million to 135 new projects under the LIFE programme, the EU's flagship funding instrument for environment and climate action. The grant is up 9% on 2025 and is the largest annual LIFE award yet, channelling money into nature restoration, the circular economy, climate resilience
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Climate ActionThe Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA) launched a global campaign on 19 October 2026 demanding that incinerators stay out of COP31 — warning that the waste-burning industry is positioning itself inside the UN climate conference's discussions on zero waste and climate finance, which open in Antalya, Türkiye, in November. In its statement, timed with
Read full storyClimate ActionUNESCO has launched the first pilot of its Climate Action Toolkit at the Colonial City of Santo Domingo — the first cultural World Heritage property and the first site in Latin America and the Caribbean to test the new climate-risk methodology.
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Climate ActionIndia has called for balanced climate action ahead of the COP31 summit, telling a special United Nations event in New York that the upcoming talks in Türkiye must "restore trust through balanced implementation" — with greater climate finance, technology transfer and capacity-building for developing countries at the centre of the agenda. The statement was delivered
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Climate ActionThe European Union's flagship environment and climate funding programme has set a new EU LIFE funding record: the 2026 call for proposals drew 1,430 applications requesting a combined €4.3 billion in EU funding, according to the announcement published on 13 October 2026. Applications rose 30% compared with 2025, while the funding requested jumped 38% —
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Climate ActionThis week, climate action is being built not in negotiation halls but in city halls, university rooms and community centres. From 12 to 18 October 2026, cities around the world are joining Global Climathon Days — a coordinated wave of citizen ideathons where ordinary residents co-create solutions to their own city's climate challenges. And in
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Climate ActionAtlanta's first Climate Week (10–15 October) closes on Thursday with the 2026 Climate Resilient ATL Roadshow — the public launch of the city's first community-led Climate Resilience Action Plan.
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Tanmiah Food Company has launched a plan to plant 100,000 eucalyptus and sidr trees across the UNESCO-listed Al-Ahsa oasis in Saudi Arabia, in a four-way partnership advancing the Saudi Green Initiative.
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Green JournalismCovering Climate Now has published a practical guide to help journalists cover COP31 in Antalya, from preparation and trusted resources to the negotiation storylines to follow.
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Green JournalismAmphora Media's cross-border investigation "Profit in Every Drop" has won Environment and Planning Journalism at the Malta Journalism Awards 2026.
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Green JournalismBroadcast journalists from Namibia, Zambia and Senegal have begun a two-day climate reporting programme under the AUB–Green Climate Fund Climate Impact Stories Partnership, aiming for accurate, human-centred, solutions-focused coverage.
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Green JournalismEntries have opened for the 2026 Climate Media Awards, celebrating African reporting on how communities grow, share and source food in a changing climate.
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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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