Green Youth
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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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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