Climate Events
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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Climate EventsThe GoImpact Green Tech Summit 2026 opened in Hong Kong on 21 October, bringing more than 50 experts and leaders and over 400 participants together under the theme of turning climate risks into opportunities. The third edition of the summit runs on 21–22 October at the Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel in Hong Kong. Now in
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Climate EventsMONTRÉAL: The fifth annual Montréal Climate Security Summit brought the worlds of defence and climate action together on 15–16 October 2026, as military leaders, defence policymakers, industry executives and climate experts met in Montréal, Canada, to answer a pressing question: how can armed forces prepare for a warming world while cutting their own environmental footprint?
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Climate EventsYEREVAN: The 2026 United Nations Biodiversity Conference — COP17 Yerevan — opened in Armenia's capital on Sunday evening, 18 October, with host Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declaring that governments have run out of time for promises and must now "move from words to action" to stop the destruction of nature. The opening ceremony at the
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Climate EventsCanada will send high-level delegations to two back-to-back United Nations conferences this autumn, the Canadian government announced on October 16, 2026 — the biodiversity summit COP17 in Yerevan, Armenia, starting October 19, and the climate summit COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye, opening November 9. The Canada COP31 delegation will be headed by Environment, Climate Change and
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Climate EventsThe Global Youth Summit for Climate Change 2026 will gather 50+ young leaders in Nairobi on 15–18 December — YCDP × UNITAR, in the home city of UNEP.
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Climate EventsEnergy and Climate Summit 2026 brought ministers, European institutions, industry leaders, investors and civil society to Brussels on 13 October for a day of practical debate on how to make Europe's clean industrial transformation both investable and competitive. Organised by the Brussels-based think tank Friends of Europe under the theme "Energy, climate and geopolitics: Europe's
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Climate EventsSacramento will host California’s first statewide climate resilience gathering next week, as the inaugural Resilient California Summit opens its doors at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center on 20 October 2026. Around 1,000 leaders from local government, Tribal nations, community organisations, academia and the private sector are expected at the three-day event, which centres on
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Climate EventsGlobal health and climate experts gather at the British Library in London on 28 October for a conference marking the 10th Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change.
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Climate EventsBERLIN: The World Health Summit 2026 opened in Berlin on 11 October, bringing together more than 4,000 participants from 130 countries in person and tens of thousands more online for three days of debate on the future of global health — with climate-related health threats placed firmly on the agenda. The annual flagship event runs
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News, stories and solutions driving change towards a greener and more sustainable planet for future generations.
India has proposed allowing chemically recycled plastic in food packaging, as the EU prepares to ban plastic-waste exports to non-OECD countries from 21 November.
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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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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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