Pamela Elizarrarás Acitores, a documentary photographer and explorer from Mexico, was awarded the inaugural Young Climate Voice Award for her groundbreaking project Climate Words. The online platform collects and defines key terms in the climate conversation, pairing them with evocative imagery to build a growing, accessible lexicon. By demystifying the language of climate justice, the project makes climate literacy more approachable and empowers new advocates to take action. Elizarrarás Acitores co-founded Climate Words out of a belief that education is central to both gender equality and climate justice—two themes that run throughout her broader practice as a photographer and storyteller. With a focus on design and narrative, she uses visual culture as a bridge, ensuring that complex climate knowledge can be shared widely across audiences. As part of the Young Climate Prize program, she was mentored by Mariana Pestana, a Portuguese architect and independent curator, who supported the development of Climate Words into a collaborative and ever-expanding database of terms submitted by experts and activists around the world. In their citation, the jury praised the project as: “Super compelling, interesting, dynamic, and powerful. Finding the right words and common definitions for talking about climate change, and, importantly, educating around these terms, is an invaluable tool, since creating accessible language can and will lead to definitive action. Pamela’s project has the potential to achieve great things beyond the world of art, and to become highly impactful in reality.”