• Calls for the Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards 2025

• Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards honor excellent reporting on critical dimensions of the climate change story

• Journalists can submit their published or broadcast climate reports for Journalism Awards

• CCNow helps journalists produce more informative and appealing coverage of the climate crisis and its potential solution

Muhammad Arif, Editor, Voice Of Water

Islamabad: Covering Climate Now, a climate action organization, invites entries for the 2025 Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards.

This is the fifth year for our annual awards program, and every year we’re amazed by the quality and variety of work entrants send our way. Last year, we received more than 1,250 entries from journalists in dozens of countries. Winners came from outlets big and small, and together, their work has represented the leading edge of climate reporting, including reporting on water crisis.

Work published or broadcast anytime in 2025 is eligible. There is no fee to enter. Entries will be accepted through Monday, March 31, at 11:59pm US Eastern Time.

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Entry submissions will cover 14 subject based categories. This helps elevate work on specific and important aspects of the climate story — for example, solutions, justice, and health. We plan to honor multiple winners in each category, reflecting a range of styles, story lengths, outlet sizes, and geographic regions, to showcase the many ways journalists across the world explored similar subjects.

In addition to the subject-based categories, we’ll honor work in a “Large projects & collaborations” category; our “Emerging Journalists of the Year” category will recognize early-career journalists whose work shows exceptional promise; and, for the first time, we’re accepting public entries for our “Journalists of the Year” award, given to three journalists who demonstrate exemplary commitment to the climate story and whose work has had a transformative impact on our profession.

Like every year, a diverse jury of distinguished journalists — from around the world and representing a variety of outlets and experiences, including many prior CCNow Journalism Award recipients — will select the winning work. We plan to announce winners in the fall.

Please help us spread the word, by sharing this opportunity with your newsrooms and professional networks. Again, the deadline is Monday, March 31 — enter your work today!

• Apply for Awards

The annual Covering Climate Now Journalism Awards has become a recognized standard for excellence in climate journalism. Since our program’s launch in 2021, it has grown every year by leaps and bounds. We now routinely receive more than 1,000 entries, from dozens of countries, on every continent. A similarly global panel of more than 100 judges — all journalists, including many prior CCNow Award recipients — selects the winners.

“Winning work in these awards demonstrates the enormity and complexity of the climate emergency,” CCNow executive director for strategic initiatives Kyle Pope said in 2024. “For journalists, it’s evidence of something we say all the time at CCNow: that climate change is a story for every reporter and every beat in the newsroom.”

Look back at past years winners:

The 2024 CCNow Journalism Awards

The 2023 CCNow Journalism Awards (and finalists)

The 2022 CCNow Journalism Awards (and finalists)

The 2021 CCNow Journalism Awards (and finalists)

• Covering Climate Now

Covering Climate Now supports, convenes, and trains journalists and newsrooms to produce rigorous climate coverage that engages audiences.

Co-founded in 2019 by Columbia Journalism Review and The Nation magazine in association with the Guardian and WNYC, CCNow invites journalists everywhere to transform how our profession covers the defining story of our time. Unless news outlets around the world dramatically improve and expand their climate coverage, there simply will not be the public awareness and political will needed to tackle the crisis.

With hundreds of partner news outlets from over 60 countries reaching billions of people, CCNow helps journalists produce more informative and appealing coverage of the climate crisis and its potential solutions.

As the climate crisis accelerates and the journalism landscape rapidly evolves, we invite all journalists and newsrooms worldwide — newsletters as well as newspapers, social media as well as television, independent investigative sites as well as a reader-funded non-profits — to join the Covering Climate Now community and help your fellow journalists produce exceptional work that engages audiences, holds power to account, and inspires change.

To learn more about the establishment of CCNow, see these pieces by our co-founders, Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope: “A New Beginning for Climate” and “The Media Are Complacent While the World Burns.” For media inquiries and to see news coverage about CCNow, visit our media page. Check out our FAQs here, and donate to support CCNow’s mission.