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08 Feb 2021 Video
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Earthshot Prize meets the 2020 Young Champions of the Earth

On 3rd February 2021, The Duke of Cambridge, Prince William spoke to seven young environmentalists from the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) Young Champions of the Earth initiative to hear their perspectives on…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Фигура в сумерках светит лучом света
UNEP unveils Young Champions of the Earth

An engineer who turns plastic rubbish into paving stones. An activist who is fighting to save endangered salmon. And an inventor who developed a machine capable of pulling water out of the air. These are just some…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Победитель конкурса "Молодые чемпионы Земли" 2020 года Лефтерис Арапакис.
Fishing for plastic

Lefteris Arapakis comes from a long line of fishers. For five generations his family has plied the bountiful waters off southern Greece, netting the same cod and red mulls that have sustained Greeks for millennia.…

15 Dec 2020 Press release
Jovens Campeões da Terra 2020
UNEP names seven dynamic environmentalists as its 2020 Young Champions of the Earth

The Young Champions of the Earth prize is awarded every year to seven entrepreneurs under the age of 30 with bold ideas for sustainable environmental change. The seven winners, hailing from different regions around…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Xiaoyuan Ren leads MyH2O, a data platform that tests and records the quality of groundwater across a thousand villages in rural China into an app so residents know where to find clean water.
Turning data into drinking water in China

For many people in rural China, drinking a glass of water is often a roll of the dice. Agricultural runoff and chemical waste from factories have left about 50 per cent of the country’s shallow groundwater polluted…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Max Hidalgo founded Yawa, building portable wind turbines that harvest up to 300 litres of water per day from atmospheric humidity and mist.
Turning air into water in rural Peru

When Max Hidalgo was 13 years old, his parents sent him away. Not as a punishment – even though the homesickness was sometimes so intense he could not bear it – but as a gift. Hidalgo was dispatched to school where…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Nzambi Matee is a 2020 Young Champion of the Earth winner with one of her pavers
Building blocks for a greener Nairobi

Nzambi Matee’s small workshop in Nairobi, Kenya is chock-a-block with metal pipes and machine cogs. It may seem chaotic to outsiders but the 29-year-old Matee, an inventor and entrepreneur, is at home here. This is…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Vidyut Mohan is a 2020 Young Champion of the earth winner
Turning waste into energy in India

Drive through northern India in winter and you'll find a landscape shrouded in smoke. The haze, which at times is so thick it can be seen from space, is the by-product of the widespread burning of crop leftovers…

15 Dec 2020 Story
Fatemah Alzelzela is a 2020 Young Champion of the Earth winner
Bringing recycling to Kuwait

Per capita, Kuwait is among the wealthiest countries in the world. But, despite having the means, it has yet to embrace modern waste management techniques, such as recycling or the sorting of trash before it’s…

15 Dec 2020 Story
iria Alicia Garcia is a 2020 Young Champion of the Earth winner
Native fish: Indigenous communities lead fight to save Sacramento’s salmon

Niria Alicia Garcia is standing on the banks of California’s Sacramento River, holding her phone. It’s mid-summer and the wide, steady waterway is flanked by willow trees, their branches trailing to the ground.…

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