Ecological Olympics

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 14:01:28 +0000

Earth Champions Ecological Olympics.

Skoll World Forum at Oxford University March 2011

Fiona — Wed, 04 May 2011 01:31:29 +0000

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. “The Forum hand selects 800 leaders from social, academic, fincance, private and policy sectors for a series of critical debates on scaling up solutions top the woprlds most pressing social issues”.

The Forum explores the theme of Large Scale Change.

Fiona Mathews addresses Global Plastics Association’s President’s Meeting on Marine Litter

admin — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:56:54 +0000

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 exhibition on the latest developments in plastics technology in Dusseldorf, Germany, on November 3, 2010.Fiona spoke of the need for the industry to face the issues squarely and to seek the solutions locally as many of the solutions for capturing the plastics could be implemented on land before reaching water and the marine environment.
Fiona was joined by other global and EU experts such as Tim Bowmer from GESAMP (The Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection) who reported on the scientific facts and the nature and extent of the marine litter problem as well as identifying the sources of the plastic litter, Christopher Corbin (UNEP Caribbean) who outlined the political situation and the potential causes and solutions to the issue of marine litter problem and finally Claude Rouam (EU Commission) who outlined the position of the EU and the the regulatory framework that might be used to monitor the problem. The presentations were followed by presentations and position statements by each industry association about how they viewed the problem and the actions be being implemented locally. The President of Plastics Europe and convener of the meeting, Jacques van Rijckevorsel, led the meeting in the final phase of identifying a joint initiative that could be adopted by the global industry. The European Plastics Industry proposed the adoption of a charter that would direct all its members to be proactive in dealing with waste plastics and the disposal of the materials. This would serve as a template for other regions to become proactive in addressing this serious problem.

Launch of the Earth Challenge with Sir Richard Branson, Vice President Al Gore and Sir Crispin Tickell

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:56:16 +0000

Sir Crispin is the Chairman of the Earth Champions International Advisory Council.