In collaboration with Count Us In and the UK High Level Champions for COP26, we're running a set of Innovation Awards with a cash prize of €2,000 to put the best ideas around climate action into action. Apply until 31st of August!
DO Something Now!
Count Us In, the UK High-Level Champions for COP26 and The DO offer a series of awards to young DOers to make a difference! Are you passionate about environmental change? Do you dream about creating a positive impact? Are you between 16 and 35 years old?
We are offering €2000 cash prizes to support changemakers developing ideas on bringing the wild back, eating for the planet, traveling sustainably, or rewriting our future. Let’s join forces and tackle the climate emergency together!
“Alone, we can do so little; together, we can do so much” – Helen Keller.
How It Works
To participate, take the following steps:
- Join The DO community and give us a shout!
- Choose between our challenges and develop an initiative.
- Fill out the application form.
- Share and spread the word! Let’s bring together changemakers around the globe and scale up our impact!
Our DO Community Challenges
Put your idea – whether fully formed or half-baked – into action and win an Innovation Award of €2,000! Either join the DO Community first to meet the community and learn more about it or apply directly now.
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Our Partner Challenges
LEARN TO COMMUNICATE AND LEAD
Take AimHi’s Cambridge-backed Climate & Nature Course, and become a force for change
Master key concepts, cut through the misinformation and become a climate champion. AimHi’s empowering and uplifting live course is supported by the University of Cambridge, has rave reviews, and is being promoted by the UN Environment Programme. Anyone anywhere can participate.
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SPEAK OUT WITH YOUR IDEAS
Hone your public speaking skills so you can speak out on climate change!
Are you between 14-18 years of age and interested in joining a workshop to help you hone your public speaking skills? There will be a competition with prizes for the best speeches at the end of the workshop. Download entry forms and get advice on speaking out!
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MYBITYOURBIT
Send your challenge to world leaders at COP26
Send a challenge to world leaders attending COP26. Record a short video message, saying briefly what you’re doing about the climate emergency (‘My bit’) and what you are challenging the world leaders to do (‘Your bit’). The best 100 videos will be showcased at COP26 to grab the attention of world leaders.
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ENTER THE CLIMATE SCIENCE OLYMPIAD
The Climate Science Olympiad invites you to create solutions to the Sustainable Development Goals.
You can join a team or form your own team in one of two age categories: 14-17 and 18-25. Registration is open until 1st August 2021. There will be 10,000 participants and 50 finalists, with a prize pool of $10,000. Find out more and register!
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CRAFT IT CHALLENGE
Use your crafts for activism
Craftivist Collective, who use crafts for activism, challenge you to make a yellow canary in any medium you wish (we have patterns too) and place it in public with the message ‘Join us on the #RaceToZero @Craftivists’ to engage passersby or through social media.
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SAY IT CHALLENGE
Create a Future Dictionary for a warming world!
Words such as greenwashing, ecocide and upcycling have come into the dictionary in recent years. What words will we need in the future? Help create a Future Dictionary for a warming world. Prizes of £50 for the best 100 new words. Yours could be one.
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PLANT IT CHALLENGE
Plant flowers in unloved places!
Guerrilla gardeners plant flowers in unloved places to brighten the environment and cheer up people. Prizes of £100 for the best guerrilla planting. Just find some space which needs a bit of TLC, plant it creatively, and share what you have done.
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THE GREY TO GREEN CHALLENGE
A hands-on approach to urban greening!
The Grey to Green Challenge is all about urban gardening, helping you to transform lifeless corners of their neighbourhoods into vibrant miniature gardens that benefit community mental health as well as local biodiversity.
Due to the time and effort required to create these spots of greenery, and to incentivise really impactful actions, Dream Green are offering prizes of £500, and also up to £100 to support people who may not be financially able to cover their own costs for materials, plants etc.
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SONGS FOR OUR CLIMATE CHALLENGE
Create and perform a song on climate change!
Climate Actions Now is challenging young people to engage in climate action through the Universal Language of Music. We're asking you to create a song that will inspire the world to take action. Win a one-song non-exclusive publishing deal with a cash advance to create a song, a track or an anthem to rally people around the climate emergency - choose any style (rock, rap, opera, acapella) and in any format (audio or video or both).
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THE SUNFLOWER CHALLENGE
Adding some colour to life!
This quick and easy challenge will get dozens of people planting guerrilla sunflowers in public spots. If theirs grows to be one of the tallest (they will need to look after it properly) they could win £100. The person with the saddest sunflower will win £20 and a “How to Garden” book.
For more information on how to enter, please contact ellen@dreamgreen.earth
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REDUCE REUSE OR RECYCLE IT
A challenge by the Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots
Enter the Climate Force Challenge and use your imagination to reduce CO2 emissions. Five prizes of £1,500 are being offered by Jane Goodall's Roots & Shoots to help make the most imaginative ideas happen.
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BE AN "ANGEL" FOR PEOPLE & PLANET
Help others in extraordinary ways and be recognized with a prize of up to €5000!
Filippas Engel Foundation gives out prizes between €500 and €5,000 to young people in Europe who go above and beyond to help others, whether it’s in the social, environmental, or cultural field. Learn more and apply with what you’ve done for climate action!
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JOIN A COMMUNITY OF CHANGEMAKERS
Be part of a global community!
We are creating a community of thousands of young people eager to address the climate emergency and wanting to change the world.
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Take on a 21-day challenge to change your habits! Join BottleDream’s community across Greater China with these practical tips on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. Join the next challenge now!
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TRACK YOUR IMPACT
See how people all over the world are taking practical steps to protect what they love from climate change, and the carbon emissions you can save!
21-Day Sustainability Challenge: Get inspiration for your project from Count Us In’s practical and impactful steps to mobilize 1 billion people for climate action. When you take on a challenge, you’re joining the Count Us In global movement!
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
Our Vision
Climate change poses a huge threat to human life on the planet. We are all facing an emergency where urgent action is needed by everybody, everywhere. Young people have a particularly important role to play. Climate Action: Race to Zero is a global collaboration aiming to harness young people’s creativity, energy and engagement to help create a world which is fit for them and their children to inherit.
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In collaboration with Count Us In and the UK High Level Champions for COP26, we're running a set of Innovation Awards with a cash prize of €2,000 to put the best ideas around climate action into action.
