Climate change is already among us, and the best photographers on the planet document it one shot at a time. Droughts, floods, crop failures, contaminated water, and plastic everywhere. Oil spills, rising temperatures, protests around the world, and deaf politicians. The CIWEM awards for the best environmental photographs of the year now have their winners. The images amaze, move, anger and worry.
Climate change does not wait or negotiate. It goes beyond budgets, ideologies, and what experts or a girl at the UN can say. Change requires change. Our change. Some take advantage of the situation or ignore it entirely. Others act and document the facts. Photographers from around the world capture the impact, the damage, the pollution, the desperation with increasing frequency.
This also translates into poverty, inequality, and loss of food security. The CIWEM 2019 awards show us all this and much more. Below, we share a humble selection of the main winners and other works that are truly not to be missed. If you want to know more, do not hesitate to visit the official gallery.
The Winners and Selected Works
