Emerging Climate Champions Award
$25M
Total Commitment
25
Awardee Orgnizations
108
Countries Applied from
33
Countries Served
Enlight Foundation is proud to support The Emerging Climate Champions Award (ECCA), a $25 million USD global open call, in partnership with The Patchwork Collective and Lever For Change. Each organization was awarded a flexible, multi-year gift of $1 million USD to advance climate solutions globally.
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The awardees address a broad range of climate priorities including conservation and biodiversity, sustainable agriculture and resource management, renewable energy, movement building, and policy and advocacy. All awardees have already demonstrated measurable results, delivering tangible environmental, economic, and social benefits in partnership with the communities they serve. Each organization brings a unique model for accelerating climate action, drawing on the expertise, lived experience, and leadership closest to these challenges. To qualify, all awardees met the program's youth-led eligibility requirement by satisfying at least two of three youth leadership (ages 15–35) criteria.​
Find more on Emerging Climate Champions Award website.
Meet theAwardees
Africa
Agrointroductions Ghana
Agrointroductions Ghana (AiG) has been working with rural communities across Ghana to restore ecosystems, build climate resilience, and grow sustainable livelihoods since 2014. Its work includes reforestation, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity conservation, women’s empowerment, and youth environmental leadership. AiG partners with institutions such as UNDP, IUCN, and Ghana’s Forestry.
Association pour le Développement de la Culture Entrepreneuriale au Mali (ADCE Mali)
ADCE Mali empowers rural women and youth through sustainable agriculture, agroforestry, and green innovation, supporting climate resilience, fair trade, and local value addition while promoting healthier communities and environmental sustainability in Mali.
Jeunes Volontaires pour L'environnement
Since 2009, frontrunner JVE strengthens climate-resilient communities by empowering youth and women with environmental protection and adaptation knowledge, connecting local community advocates to national, regional and global advocacy efforts to influence climate policy.
The Little Environmental Action Foundation Kenya (the LEAF Kenya)
LEAF partners with Kilifi communities to restore threatened tree species across limestone forest patches and replant mangroves, planting 10,000+ seedlings and creating 100+ sustainable livelihoods, reducing deforestation threats and protecting Eastern Africa's vital Coastal Forest biodiversity.
Asia
Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative Trust
Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative (BYEI) is a youth-led nonprofit that advances youth agency by nurturing planetary stewardship through environmental education, leadership development, and community-led climate action to build a just, resilient, and thriving Bangladesh.
Masungi Georeserve Foundation
A youth-led conservation and geotourism initiative restoring degraded forests, protecting biodiversity, and empowering local communities across 2,700 hectares of karsts and watersheds, strengthening climate resilience and safeguarding vital ecosystem services for millions of Filipinos.
Europe
North America
Latin America
Asociacion Civil Jovenes por el Clima
We are a youth-led movement driving climate justice by training young leaders, shaping policy, and delivering renewable energy solutions in vulnerable communities, combining community organizing and strategic communication to scale impact nationally and regionally.
Barranquilla+20
Barranquilla+20 is a youth and women led organization in Colombia that addresses rising sea levels, biodiversity loss, polluted water, and environmental injustice in vulnerable communities. The organization has advanced community driven solutions that are both locally designed and globally connected.
Filha do Sol
Filha do Sol will strengthen the leadership of 500 frontline women across Brazil's Amazon and Northeast coast, building a lasting ecosystem for measurable impact on climate justice and adaptation through funding, nature regeneration, advocacy and policy engagement with IPLCs over three years.
North America
Lab22 - Laboratoire d'innovations sociales et environnementales
Lab22 will partner with 80 Quebec schools over three years to co-develop climate action plans, strengthen policies, integrate environmental education in all classes, build community partnerships, improve infrastructure resilience, and reduce each school's carbon footprint.
