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cop31Pacific leaders have adopted the Taku Pakasoa Declaration — a joint call for deep, rapid and sustained emissions reductions to keep the 1.5°C goal within reach — at the close of the Pre-COP31 ministerial meeting in Nadi, Fiji. The declaration, whose name is a Tuvaluan expression for strength found in unity and collective action…
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cop31The African Group of Negotiators on Climate Change (AGN) has told the world what it expects from COP31: delivery, not another cycle of promises. Speaking at the AGNES Pre-COP31 Strategy Meeting in Nairobi on 8 October, AGN Chair Nana Dr Antwi-Boasiako Amoah said the summit in Antalya must turn existing climate commitments into concrete action,
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cop31NADI, Fiji — With four weeks to go before COP31 opens in Antalya, Türkiye, the United Nations’ top climate official has urged governments to make the summit the moment climate promises finally become real-world results. United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Executive Secretary Simon Stiell said every economy is already paying the price
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cop31YEREVAN — Nine days before the UN biodiversity conference opens in Yerevan, the head of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity has delivered a blunt warning: the world has enough money to protect nature, but too much of it is still being spent on destroying it. Astrid Schomaker, the CBD's Executive Secretary, said after a
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cop31COP31's fourth Presidency letter puts agriculture and food security on the Antalya agenda, backing the farmers' call to extend the Sharm el-Sheikh Joint Work beyond 2026.
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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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cop31NADI, Fiji — The co-organizers of this year's UN climate summit have announced a new tactic to break the deadlock of COP negotiations: a "presidency-led decision" — a summary text they will prepare in advance and put to a vote at COP31 in Antalya, aimed at keeping the 1.5°C warming limit within reach. Australia and
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cop31UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday urged developed nations to deliver on their promises of climate finance and technology to build resilience in vulnerable countries, as the world prepares for the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye next month.
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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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cop31An explainer on COP31's unprecedented split presidency: Türkiye's Murat Kurum holds the COP31 Presidency while Australia's Chris Bowen wields exclusive authority over the negotiations — and what 'exclusive' does and does not mean.
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cop31A Guardian investigation has found that landfills in COP31 host Türkiye emit some of the world's worst methane mega-leaks, with Istanbul's Silivri site averaging 7.4 tonnes of methane an hour — even as the COP31 presidency puts methane cuts at the top of its summit agenda.
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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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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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