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Healthy food systems have a positive impact on the natural environment. UNEP is partnering with FAO and WWF to bring youth action to food systems!

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 the environmental challenges facing our planet and the innovative solutions needed to address these issues.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres shares his message of support for the Champions and Young Champions of the Earth 2020, the UN’s highest environmental honour.

2017 Young Champion of the Earth Liliana Jaramillo has been working to build green roofs that host native plant species in her birth city, Quito, Ecuador.

2019 Young Champion of the Earth for West Asia, Omar Itani, founded FabricAid in Beirut, Lebanon. Chemicals from dyes can have severe impacts on soil and water sources from run-off. FabricAID reuses and recycles unwanted clothes.

2019 Young Champion of the Earth for Asia and the Pacific, Sonika Manadhar created the Green Energy Mobility (GEM) platform in her country of Nepal.

2019 Champion of the Earth for Asia and the Pacific, Louise Mabulo, works with farmers in the Philippines who live below the poverty line, and are vulnerable to not only disaster, but become targets of terrorist groups.

The 2019 Young Champion of the Earth for Latin America and the Caribbean, Anna Luisa Santos developed Aqualuz, the only technology in the world for cisterns, which only needs sunlight to make rainwater suitable for consumption.

The 2019 Young Champion of the Earth for Africa is Adjany Costa from Angola. Adjany is committed to saving one of the world’s last wild places, the Okavango Basin.

The 2019 Young Champion of the Earth winner for Europe has launched the “Plant the Forest” website to reach more people in our reforestation efforts.