Deadline: April 30, 2025
Nominations are open for the UNEP Champions of the Earth Award 2025. The Champions of the Earth award honours individuals and organizations whose actions have a transformative impact on the environment. In 2024, UNEP honoured individuals and organizations working on innovative and sustainable solutions to restore land, enhance drought resilience, and combat desertification.
Every year since 2005, UNEP honours individuals and organizations working on innovative and sustainable solutions to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. Champions transform our economies, innovate, lead political change, fight environmental injustice and defend our natural resources.
Categories
The 2025 award spotlights outstanding climate action focusing on solutions on methane, buildings and construction, sustainable cooling including energy efficiency, clean air, and forests. Nominate a Champion of the Earth.
Nominations can be made in four categories:
- Policy leadership
- Inspiration and action
- Entrepreneurial vision
- Science and innovation
Eligibility
- Open to individuals and organizations working on innovative and sustainable solutions delivering climate action.
- Applicants may be from anywhere around the world.
Selection Process
UNEP staff and subject matter experts carefully select Champions from a global pool of nominations. The nomination process is open to everyone, and past cycles have seen over 2,500 submissions from around the world.
The selection criteria are as follows:
- Impact: Have the nominee’s actions resulted in profound environmental gains or demonstrated significant potential for replication and scaling?
- Novelty: Has the nominee done or achieved something new and innovative?
- Influence: How compelling and inspiring is the nominee’s story?
Nomination
For more information, visit UNEP Champions of the Earth Award.
