Avert Climate disaster, discover local solutions, accelerate global impact, share knowledge, participate now.

Our mission is to promote best practices and inspire innovations to combat climate change, empowering everyone to make a difference.

Our vision is to have an Olympiad for the Earth every four years.

Discovering

Earth Champions^® Programme empowers communities to find and celebrate local, everyday people or organisations that are achieving outstanding environmental results in the areas of water, energy, transport, air quality, biodiversity, waste minimisation, wellbeing, the built environment and disaster risk management.

Sharing

These Earth Champions^® become the recognised leaders and mentors in community programmes that reinforce and embed ‘best practices’’ found within that community. These best practices are stored in a database called the “Knowledge Pond” that can be disseminated and widely shared with the global community.

Communicating

We record the conditions and status of the local environment in simple and easily understood language to deliver accessible information and tools for communities to measure and manage the improvements their local Earth Champions^® achieve.

We have been inspiring people around the world since 2000, and have accredited 438 Earth Champions to date.

What we do

Founded in 2000, with the first award given by Nelson Mandela, the Earth Champions^® Foundation has been discovering 100’s of practical environmental practices that minimise the progress and impacts of climate change.

We want billions of Earth Champions^® all working on best practices that address climate change. Every step multiplied by billions of repetitions will have a major impact on mitigating climate change.

The Earth Champions^® Discovery Quest finds local solutions for climate change that can be easily repeated by individuals, communities, businesses and governments.

Earth Champions^® Quest

Role models for the future: The Earth Champions® Quest is the Foundation’s major initiative. The quest identifies ‘Earth Champions’, who are people and organisations that have made a significant and positive impact on an environmental issue.

Local individuals, communities, businesses & government: The purpose of the Earth Champions® Quest is to inspire people, especially youth. City communities seek and nominate their own champions. Nominations for environmental excellence are assessed by a distinguished panel based.

State of your local Planet

Measuring, auditing and reporting on the vital status of the local environment is crucial to the process of sustaining life as we know it now and for our future generations.

The State of the Local Planet Report monitors the status of indicators: Air, Water, Energy, Transport, Built Environment, Biodiversity and Waste Reduction.

Knowledge Pond

Sharing of innovation in ecological best practices.Besides local environmental “heroes”, one of the most valuable outcomes of the Earth Champion^® programme is an ever-expanding Knowledge Pond®, which holds the ideas from every Earth Champion^® nomination worldwide.

Acting as a catalyst for technology transfer, the Knowledge Pond® is a tool for fostering global interaction. This on-line resource of environmental innovations across boundaries and will help to share solutions that can restore and sustain the planet.

Your action is required

For those who ask, “But what can be done, and who will do it?”, our answer is “Everything, and everyone”. For better or for worse, each of us has a part to play. To paraphrase the great Nelson Mandela, who presented the inaugural Earth Champions Award in 2000, “May our choices reflect our hopes, not our fears.”

WHAT WE DO

Latest blog articles

Articles

Waste Plastic Saving Water – Solving two problems with one strategy

Australia’s current water management is archaic - rainwater is carried miles in costly pipes and poured into the sea. In the dry season sea water is pulled back through billions of dollars’ worth of desalination plants and pumped through…

Articles

Local initiatives can help tackle plastic pollution at its sources

Whilst working on an Innovate UK study comparing the Indian and the UK ways of managing plastic film waste, Fiona Mathews, founder of Earth Champions Foundation, was given an insiders’ perspective on the importance of keeping things local…

The Earth Champions^® Foundation is a Charity (1143634) registered in United Kingdom.

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Click on the QR code. You will get detailed V-card* for scanning or directly download vfc file here.

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