Green Youth
Green YouthChildren in Juba adopted the declaration “Our Future, Our Rights, Our Climate” at a pre-COP31 simulation event, demanding climate-resilient schools, accessible climate finance and a real voice at COP31 in Antalya.
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Green YouthJordan's Local Youth Conference on Climate Change 2026 opened in Amman on 1 November, with young people preparing a national youth statement for COP31 in Antalya and ministers reporting about 1,700 people trained in green skills.
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Green YouthMesa has awarded $40,000 to 11 youth-led sustainability projects through its Youth Climate Action Fund, covering water, heat and materials projects to be completed by 31 March 2027.
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Green YouthAKRSP invites local groups in Upper and Lower Chitral to apply by 10 November 2026 for micro-grants for women- and youth-led climate resilience projects under the RENEW project.
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Green YouthGeneration Climate Europe has opened a €32,000 youth climate grant for one youth-led organisation to coordinate young voices across Europe ahead of COP32 in Addis Ababa in November 2027.
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Green YouthChildren from Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania handed the Kampala Children's EAC Declaration on Climate to the East African Community at Uganda's Parliament on 16 October 2026, then planted 5,000 trees.
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Green YouthOver 90 elementary students from 13 schools across Grey and Bruce counties gathered in Owen Sound on 28 October for the fifth annual Youth Climate Action Conference, turning a day of hands-on labs into climate project plans for their own schools.
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Green YouthMore than 100 Indigenous young people from across Asia adopted the Hugu Declaration in Kota Kinabalu, demanding recognition as distinct rightsholders and direct, multi-year funding for youth-led work ahead of COP31.
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Green YouthBellevue's Youth Climate Action Fund offers $50,000 in grants, with microgrants of $1,000 to $5,000 for youth-led projects; residents aged 15 to 24 can apply by 5 November 2026, with an application workshop at City Hall on 28 October.
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Green YouthDisney Conservation Fund invests $1 million in Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots as 10 youth conservation leaders gather at Walt Disney World, taking total Disney support past $7.5 million.
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Green YouthMore than 500 teenagers in Burgenland will help shape the region's revised climate strategy, which aims for climate neutrality by 2040, ORF reported on 26 October 2026.
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Green YouthSeven young ocean advocates from five countries have arrived in Yerevan, Armenia, as part of an EarthEcho International youth delegation to the United Nations biodiversity conference, CBD COP17, to press governments to turn ocean promises into real protection. The delegation, in Yerevan from 25 to 31 October 2026, brings together EarthEcho youth leaders Gabriela Casuso
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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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