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CMCC Climate Change Communication Award "Rebecca Ballestra" - THIRD edition
The CMCC Foundation announces the 2025 edition of the Rebecca Ballestra Climate Change Communication Award, which focuses on climate journalism that helps raise public awareness of climate change and incorporates climate topics into media and society through ongoing, innovative, science-based, and cross-sector reporting.
Journalism and the biggest story
in the world
At the Festival for the Earth in Turin, the CMCC Foundation hosts a dialogue among journalists, scientists, and policymakers, presenting the stories of the CMCC Climate Change Communication Award 2025 winners.
get to know the 2025 award
winners
Damian Carrington of The Guardian and Pilita Clark of the Financial Times are the winners of the 2025 edition of the award, for their climate journalism work and ability to raise public awareness through the use of scientific sources.
The Jury

Carolina Aragón
Artist and Professor at UMass Amherst

Jeff Biggers
Author, Founder of the Climate Narrative Project

Mauro Buonocore
Head of the Communication and Media Office at CMCC

Giuseppe La Spada
Water Artist

Fiona McDonald
Visual Anthropologist at the University of British Columbia
Projects
Projects
Project categories
2023 Edition
New platforms, ideas and an ever-expanding network. All continents represented, for a total of 52 countries among 183 projects
FORESIGHT DIALOGUES:
Our planet, climate and society
A discussion on the main challenges for the communication and information sector in supporting the climate transition.
READINGS
INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
INNOVATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
