Welcome to Earth Champions
The Earth Champions Quests are the Foundation’s major initiative. The Quests identify ‘Earth Champions’, who are people and organisations that have made a significant and positive impact on an environmental issue. Anyone, rich or poor, can be an Earth Champion.
Launched in 2000 with Nelson Mandela giving the inaugral award. Quests have been completed in Hong kong Switzerland and Australia. The current Quest will be in London UK.
The purpose of the Earth Champions Quests is to discover new heroes that inspire people, especially youth, to seek innovative ecological solutions . World communities seek and nominate their own champions.
Skoll World Forum at Oxford University March 2011
The Skoll world Forum on Social Entrepreneurship 30 March-1 April 2011. Guest speakers included Queen Noor of Jordan, Desmond Tutu and Lord Sainbury. Fiona Mathews was invited to participate at this very exciting initiative which was founded by Jeff Skoll.
Fiona Mathews addresses Global Plastics Association’s President’s Meeting on Marine Litter
Earth Champions CEO, Fiona Mathews was invited to provide an external viewpoint on how the pressing and serious issue of marine litter should be tackled by the 43 plastics industry associations that were meeting as a group for the first time at the worlds biggest …
Launch of the Earth Challenge with Sir Richard Branson, Vice President Al Gore and Sir Crispin Tickell
Sir Crispin is the Chairman of the Earth Champions International Advisory Council.