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The nomination cycle for the 2025 Champions of the Earth award runs from 2 to 30 April. The 2025 award spotlights outstanding climate action focusing on solutions on

Preparations are underway in UN Environment Programme (UNEP) for the 2020 Champions of the Earth and Young Champions of the Earth awards.

Today the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) confirmed over 1,500 nominations from around the world were received for the 2020 Champions of the Earth award. The online nomination portal for the prestigious environmental award closed yesterday, after being open for two months from 21 January to 20 March 2020.

Nairobi, 20 January 2020 – Nominations for the 2020 Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honour, opened today, aiming to recognize the

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Urban green spaces encourage active and healthy lifestyles, improve mental health, prevent disease, and provide a place for people to socialize.

Do you want to change the world? We’re here to help.

At a ceremony last week, the United Nations Office at Nairobi and Mobike, the world’s largest smart bike-sharing company, launched a bike-sharing scheme for the UN’s Nairobi compound.

To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, we spoke to three Young Champions of the Earth - women who are already changing the world.

By Erik Solheim, Head of UN Environment It’s not always easy to be optimistic about the future of our planet.

Of the more than 100 videos we produced in 2017, here are seven that bring out some of the highlights of the year. 

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Jeff Orlowski is a UN Environment Champion of the Earth for insipiration and action. 

Nairobi, 5 December 2017 – Six inspirational environmental leaders today received the United Nations' highest environmental honour, the Champions of the Earth award, during the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, Kenya.

Kaya Dorey wins Young Champion of the Earth prize for her sustainable apparel business innovation Kaya is one of six inaugural winners from around the world to be announced throughout November Winners receive US15,000 seed f

2 December 2016 - Six inspirational environmental leaders representing government, research and grassroots action received today the United Nations' highest environmental accolade, the Champ

The Thought For Food team likes a challenge – encouraging innovation in agriculture, and changing the way we eat.

“Service is my guiding value. One day we will leave this earth, and what remains is what we do for people,” says Omer Badokhon, the Young Champion of the Earth for West Asia.

Young entrepreneur Badr Idrissi never waited to be told what to do. Instead, he looked for innovative solutions to problems. He would often take the family TV or video recorder to pieces.

Champions of the Earth laureate Boyan Slat and his Ocean Cleanup team launched their revolutionary marine litter cleanup system today. Research shows that a scaled-up fleet of 60 systems could eventually clean up 50% of the Patch in t