About the Competition

The International Children’s Painting Competition on the Environment is organized annually by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Japan-based Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE) Bayer AG and Nikon Coporation. It has been held since 1990 and has received over 160,000 entries from children in over 100 countries.

This year’s is the fifteenth and will focus on the theme of Deserts and Desertification. The global competition as well as regional competitions will be organized in cooperation with partners in the regions. Preliminary selection will be done by UNEP Regional Offices and their partners while the final selection will be done by UNEP, the Foundation for Global Peace and Environment (FGPE Japan) , Bayer AG and Nikon Corporation.

All four partners are inviting children all over the world to submit their paintings to the UNEP offices in their regions.For addresses of these offices and a world map indicating which region you belong to click here.

Entries must reach the relevant UNEP regional offices by 31 January 2006 at the latest.