We’re back! 🎉 After the success of our inaugural awards, we’re excited to launch the second edition of the Climate Tracker Caribbean Journalism Awards! Together with our partners at Open Society Foundations, we’re shining a spotlight on the incredible work of climate journalists across the Caribbean.
This competition is your chance to be recognised for impactful storytelling that drives awareness and inspires positive action in the face of climate challenges. Whether you’re a seasoned journalist or an emerging voice, we invite you to submit your best work!
5 ✋ awards in 5✋ different categories are up for grabs:
🌎 Best Climate Justice Storytelling
This category recognises powerful stories that explore the social dimensions of climate change, including its impacts on marginalised communities, human rights issues, and efforts toward climate equity. Submissions should highlight how climate change affects people, biodiversity and communities, emphasising justice and fairness.
🔍 Best Investigative Climate Storytelling
This category celebrates in-depth investigations that uncover hidden truths about climate-related issues, policies, or events. Entries should demonstrate journalistic rigor and provide new insights into climate challenges in the region. It aims to recognise in-depth, data-driven, and hard-hitting investigative stories that expose environmental issues, climate injustice, or corporate/government accountability in the Caribbean.
🎥 Best Multimedia Climate Storytelling
This category recognises innovative and impactful stories that effectively integrate video, audio, photography, interactive elements, and/or social media. The winning entry should engage and inform audiences by combining multiple formats to communicate climate issues and solutions in a compelling, accessible way. Judges will look for creativity, high production quality, and the ability to inspire action and raise awareness.
🗞️ Outstanding Editorial or Opinion Piece
Recognising persuasive, well-researched, and thought-provoking commentary on climate change, policy, or environmental justice from a Caribbean perspective.
🌱 Best Solutions-Oriented Climate Storytelling
Honouring impactful journalism that highlights local or regional solutions to climate change, including renewable energy, adaptation strategies, community resilience, and indigenous knowledge.
Who can apply to the Caribbean Climate Journalism Awards?
This competition is open to journalists, podcasters, videographers, and multimedia creators from the Caribbean region who are eager to contribute to the discourse on climate change. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or an emerging talent, we encourage you to submit your best work!
Why should YOU participate?
Your compelling stories can inspire policy changes, raise awareness, and mobilise communities to take action against climate change. Moreover, finalists and winners will receive recognition, valuable networking opportunities, and a monetary prize.
How to apply
Ready to showcase your impactful climate stories? Complete the application form provided below and submit your best work for consideration. Our esteemed panel of judges will evaluate submissions based on creativity, accuracy, impact, and relevance to climate issues in the Caribbean.
NOTE: We are accepting third-party nominations. So if you’d like to nominate your friends and colleagues for this opportunity, we encourage you to do so!
🌟📝 Do you think you stand a chance of taking home one of these awards?
Then submit your work for consideration!! 📩🎉
NOTE: Each person is allowed to submit no more than one application per category.
Important dates to keep in mind
📥 Submission Period: 27th February 2025 – 14th March 2025 (11:59pm AST time)
🏅 Scoring by judging panel: 17th March 2025 – 21st March 2025
🎉 Final selection: 24th March 2025
🎥 Virtual Award Ceremony: 27th March 2025
Access this document to learn more about the sum of the award, criteria-specific information, and eligibility.
Then head to this link to submit your work for consideration, and stay tuned to our social media pages for more information.
For inquiries, contact:
📧 Johannes Damodar Patak (Caribbean Programme Officer & Journalism Mentor) — johannes@climatetracker.org
📧 Camol Walker (Caribbean Communications Officer) — camol@climatetracker.org
📧 Dizzanne Billy (Caribbean Regional Director) – dizzanne@climatetracker.org
Join us in shaping a sustainable future through the power of journalism.
ABOUT CLIMATE TRACKER
Climate Tracker (CT) is an international non-profit organisation, aiming to support, train and incentivise better climate journalism globally. We believe in the power of journalism but recognise that many young journalists don’t have the training, resources or support to identify and tell the climate stories they want to. We also recognise that this challenge is often greatest in the countries hardest hit by climate change. To address this, we:
- Provide training and fellowships for young journalists around the world to tell better climate stories locally
- Conduct action-oriented media research to better understand the biggest challenges, trends, and obstacles to powerful climate reporting around the world
- Fund young journalists to report on the world’s most pressing issues and cover the world’s biggest moments, UN negotiations and conferences
- Support global collaborations between young climate journalists, newsrooms and NGOs around the world
