The Egyptian environmental journalist Hadeer Elhadary was the only Arab winner in this year’s United Nations Correspondents Association’s global awards for climate change coverage.
Elhadary received the bronze medal at the United Nations headquarters in New York in the Prince Albert II of Monaco Climate Change Reporting category. Ambassador Isabelle Picco, Permanent Representative of the Principality of Monaco to the United Nations, presented Elhadary with her award.
Elhadary has previously won nine major journalistic awards from organisations including the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Egyptian Ministry of Social Solidarity, the Egyptian Ministry of Environment, Agence France-Presse, the German Embassy (through the Cairo Climate Change Forum), Plan International, a United Kingdom-based humanitarian organisation that works in over 80 countries, and Africa2, a Swiss based think-tank about sustainable development, diplomacy and African issues. She also received the BioScience Scientists Award for Science Communication this year, and SustainabilityX magazine, a Canadian digital non-profit initiative, named her as one of the world’s top 50 women in the field of sustainability.
