Press Contact: Colby Kelly, colby@coveringclimatenow.org Covering Climate Now invites journalists everywhere to submit work for the 2024 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards, presented with the Columbia Journalism Review. Now in its fourth year, the CCNow Awards program has become an industry standard for excellence. Last year, the awards team received nearly 1,100 entries, from 29 […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. Deforestation in the Amazon has fallen by almost 50% in one year under President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Brazilian government said earlier this month. As much of the world heads to the polls this year, these figures are a stunning reminder of how […]
Given the enormity of the climate crisis, how would it look for an entire newsroom to respond at scale? France’s largest newspaper, Le Monde, might have one idea. Over the past year, Nabil Wakim, a climate and energy journalist at Le Monde, has helped oversee training initiatives aimed at bringing hundreds across the company up […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. In Dubai last month, the world’s governments reached a landmark agreement to “transition away from fossil fuels.” Now, the Biden administration faces a defining test of its commitment to that scientific imperative: a massive proposed expansion of liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in the US. […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. Some four billion people — roughly half the human population — will get the opportunity to vote in 2024, making this the biggest election year of all time. Bangladesh went first, last Sunday, in an election boycotted by the opposition party. It will be followed, […]
Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. A clear majority of the American public — 56% — is now either “concerned” or outright “alarmed” about climate change. That’s according to a new study by the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the gold standard in US climate polling. Yale’s findings are essential […]
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Sign up to receive our weekly newsletter in your inbox. The Climate Beat will be taking a break over the holidays and will return on January 4. Is the COP 28 agreement “a historic deal that will spell the eventual end of fossil fuels?” the Guardian’s Fiona Harvey asked. “Or will it be one more […]
A sunrise over mountains. Wild animals running free. A field of pristine solar panels. These are the images at the top of a slickly produced promotional video for the Saudi Green Initiative, which pledges bold vision and leadership in the fight against climate change. It seems every country and company is airing similar greenwashing videos, […]
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“The 1.5-degree limit is only possible if we ultimately stop burning all fossil fuels,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres said last Friday in Dubai. “Not reduce. Not abate. Phaseout — with a clear timeframe aligned with 1.5 degrees C.” Guterres made those remarks two days before news broke that Sultan Al Jaber, the president of COP28 […]
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