The jury, made up of 58 journalists from around the world, praised the way the winners portrayed the urgency of the climate crisis, highlighted the "many solutions" to this crisis and urged people and policymakers to act.
Among the winning works, a short documentary by HBO Max on the journey of two young sisters from a family of farmers present for six generations in Iowa, a region of the American Midwest, where their agricultural exploitation undergoes incessant cycles of floods and droughts.
The 30-minute film shows how "a little story becomes big, big", with their family finding joy in the agricultural toil, but recognizing that climate change is slowly making their way of life unsustainable.
Time magazine's Justin Worland was named Journalist of the Year, and Agence France-Presse (AFP) won for a "world-class" video project on the effect of rising sea on coastal cities and its impact on the world's poorest populations.
Other winners include the Al Jazeera channel for its report on Saint-Louis, Senegal, a UNESCO site eaten away by the rising ocean;
US public television PBS for its coverage of COP26 in Scotland;
and a series of podcasts from the British daily newspaper The Guardian on Pacific island nations.
"Improving press coverage is a critical climate solution, a catalyst that makes progress on all facets of the problem more likely -- from politics to economics, from lifestyle change to climate change. system," said Mark Hertsgaard, managing director of Covering Climate Now.
For the second edition of these awards, the 23 winners were selected from 900 candidates from 65 countries.
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