Local Heroes global impact
Discover, connect, and share the best practices for climate resilience from everyday heroes, innovators and communities across the globe.
There are more than 450+ Earth Champions and seeking thousands more..
LARGE SCALE IMPACT AT A GLOBAL LEVEL
Meet our Champions
Earth is the only home we have, let’s protect it
Our Vision
An Olympiad for the Earth
To inspire people into action and mobilise nations to abate climate change.
This will be held every four years, a week prior to the Summer Olympics.
Sir Richard Branson, Al Gore and Sir Crispin Tickell – Chairman of the Earth Champions International Committee.
Why We Take Action
The world is in a converging crisis with climate change, diminishing resources, extinctions on a massive scale, poverty, war and dislocation of people and divisive leadership, leading young people to despair about their future and about their opportunity to positively participate in creating a peaceful and healthy life.
Our Champions
We work on a wide variety of projects both alongside and following on from the Earth Champions Quests. Here are some examples.
How you can help Today
Nominate your city
Start your quest by nominating your city to participate by telling us what is going well in your city and what needs improvement
Support the Movement
Volunteer, partner, donate, or collaborate to create a better tomorrow
GLOBAL PROGRAMMES
Bring cities and regions together to discover, celebrate, and share the people creating positive change.
Our Mission
Our goal is to help establish best practices and inspire the discovery of groundbreaking innovation to reduce climate change that can be implemented by countries, cities and individuals.
This can be achieved through our Quests.
The Earth Champions® Quest invites the community to nominate those outstanding and everyday people or organisations that are actively working in the areas of water, energy, transport, air, biodiversity, waste management, built environment and wellbeing.
These unsung local heroes, who are striving to protect the environment without recognition or reward, are nominated from within communities.
News & Stories
Earth Day 2026: How We Choose to See Our Planet
The Earth Champions Foundation was brought to life on Earth Day 1977. While that date marks our beginning, it was merely the first step in a long-standing commitment to the preservation of our world. Today, the challenge is no longer
From Water Bankruptcy to Regeneration: Humanity’s Point of Choice
For years we have spoken about a “global water crisis”. But a new UN-backed report suggests something more serious is unfolding: the world is entering an era of global water bankruptcy. That phrase is confronting for a reason. A crisis
Turning Takeaway Waste into Water Security: The Waste Saving Water Initiative
Across the world, plastic pollution and water scarcity are two of the most urgent environmental challenges we face. What if one simple community action could help tackle both at the same time? Waste Saving Water is a grassroots initiative that
The Women Who Are Stopping Ocean Plastics in India
In Pune, India, a group of women are doing work that most of the world never sees. Every day, they collect, sort, and recover waste from streets and neighbourhoods, preventing huge amounts of plastic from reaching rivers and the ocean.
Our amazing partners
“The partnership of UN Champions of the Earth and The Earth Champions Foundation, can provide a powerful program that it is global, local, holistic and inclusive”
Dr Topher said at the inauguration event the UN in New York 2005.