EMS Communicating Weather & Climate Award 2025 to Jeremy Wilks

The recipient of the 2025 EMS Communicating Weather & Climate Award is Jeremy Wilks.

The Climate Now series produced and presented by Jeremy Wilks updates Euronews audiences on how our planet is changing every month. Euronews science reporter Jeremy Wilks combines Copernicus climate data with engaging storytelling to reach a broad range of viewers. The programme is broadcast in 12 languages to over 160 countries worldwide across television and digital platforms. Jeremy is committed to making the latest climate data accessible and understandable for all.

The award will be presented during the Media and Communication Session of the EMS Annual Meeting in Ljubljana on Wednesday, 10 September 2025

Jeremy Wilks is a science reporter at Euronews since October 2006. He presents the Climate Now series for Euronews. He finds stories, creates storylines, films on location, and presents each episode. He covers climate change, science, energy and sustainability. Jeremy moderates live events at the European Commission and European Parliament, and moderates at major international events such as COP29, WebSummit, EU Space Conference, and VivaTech.

He hosts the Ocean Calls series of podcasts to connect listeners with the issues facing our oceans today. He presents regular live YouTube events to discuss climate issues in-depth. He also reports on climate and environmental stories for Euronews daily news coverage.

Jeremy experimented with different formats for the programme over the past five years. The latest iteration of the format is anchored from the field, with the monthly climate data post-produced. He likes this format because we can highlight the location from the outset.

Throughout the production of each episode he takes every effort to ensure scientific accuracy in our content, and ease of comprehension for the audience. He is a broadcaster, not a narrowcaster, and his goal is to bring the facts to the widest audience possible. Thanks to Euronews’ unique multilingual approach this programme is broadcast on TV in 12 languages to over 400 million households in 160 countries worldwide. On the digital side, combined euronews.com Climate Now language pages have up to 500,000 page views per month. Online our top countries for audience are: France, Italy, United States, Germany, Denmark, Spain, the UK, and Turkey.

Jeremy also hosts regular live Climate Now one-hour panel discussions on climate change topics on the Euronews YouTube channel. These are in-depth conversations, with climate data presented to support arguments and structure the content.

 Jeremy Wilks was News Reporter at Euronews Sep 2001 – Sep 2006

Jeremy’s first role at Euronews was as a news broadcast journalist from September 2001 to September 2006. He was covering live events, live translation, script editing and voice-over recording. It is a demanding position requiring staff to be knowledgeable on a huge range of international news. The role requires journalists to work quickly under pressure in a multilingual environment.

 Jeremy Wilks’ previous roles:

  • Online Producer at Independent Television News (ITN), London 1999 – 2001
    Jeremy produced original news features, breaking news, business analysis, and entertainment content for ITN. He was an expert contributor on new media and emerging technology for NewsDirect and LBC Radio
  • Broadcast Journalist, Essex Radio 1997 – 1999
    Jeremy was a field reporter and on-air news presenter at this successful commercial radio station. He had a close relationship with our audience, and genuinely loved meeting members of the community and reporting on the ground.
  • News Journalist, Millennium Radio 1995 – 1997
    Being a news journalist at a small commercial radio station means being able to do everything at once – write the bulletin, read the bulletin, stay on top of the news, chat on-air with the presenter, record interviews, edit packages and hit deadlines.

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About the EMS Communicating Weather & Climate Award

The EMS Communicating Weather & Climate Award is presented to honour individual European meteorologists/climatologists who have delivered outstanding long-term communication conveying strong, accurate science in any media outlet including radio, television, film, newspaper, magazine, social media, and online. The laureate is invited to attend the EMS Annual Meeting. For more details and earlier recipients visit the Communicating Weather & Climate Award website.

About the EMS Annual Meeting

The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim at fostering exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological and related communities, focusing particularly on strategic issues relevant to the future of meteorology in Europe. The session programme offers many opportunities for collaboration across the entire weather and climate enterprise (public, private, academic, users, and NGOs) to benefit societies in Europe and worldwide.

Jeremy Wilks, recipient of the EMS Communicating Weather & Climate Award 2025

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