Ready to be an everyday Climate Hero
Register your community group for the 2 week Community Climate Challenge
Starting on Earth Day - April 22nd
What is it?
Climate Heroes is team-based climate challenge for you and members from your community that supports you in taking climate friendly actions together.
- Learn about your own climate impact and how your simple actions, added together with your team, do make a difference.
- And have a fun friendly competition with other groups across Ireland to find Irelands most climate friendly community group.
You can join with a team from your sports club, a mens shed or tidy towns group, a residents group, or simply a group of friends who want to do some good together. You make your own team however you want.
The challenge simply invites you and your team to:
- explore a range of climate friendly actions you can do on a day by day basis. These are listed on our unique climate challenge platform.
- If you do any of these actions, you then log them on the platform.
- See the impact you make as you record your actions.
- See the challenge leader board with other teams and then go try beat them :)
How do we win the challenge?
- Join your team on the online platform on the 22nd of April.
- Log your climate friendly actions daily over the duration of the two week challenge.
- Encourage your team to log their actions and try new ones.
- The team who saves the most CO2 over the duration of the challenge wins - simple as that!
- There will be prizes for the top three teams across Ireland plus a special award for the group that goes above and beyond.
Want to know more?
Join our info session on the 22nd of March at 1pm and 7pm where we will talk through the challenge, the platform and answer all your questions. You can register for the sessions by clicking the links below:
22 March, lunchtime - 1 pm: https://bit.ly/ClimateHeroes-lunch-briefing
22 March, evening - 7 pm: https://bit.ly/Climate-Heroes-evening-briefing
Register your team today
What do I need to do to join the Community Challenge?
- Chat with your local community group and drum up some interest.
- The challenge works best when you have a team of between 5 and 20 participants. If you have more, consider entering in two teams and competing against each other 😀
- Agree on a fun name for your team and the number of participants you think will join
- Register your team above before the 17th of April - this gives us time to set your team up on the Challenge platform and send you the log in details for your team.
- Join the Team Leader information session on the 19th of April at 7pm - details will be sent out to you after you register your team.
- On Earth Day 22nd of April - the challenge begins. Start logging your climate friendly actions and see if you and your team can be the first Community Climate Heroes Champions.
Still not sure what this is all about or if you simply want more information and to talk to someone on our team? Then fill in the information form at the bottom of this page or email us at climatecompetition [@] globalactionplan.ie
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Our innovative Climate Competition support businesses, communities and schools in creating an inviting and empowering environment for climate action.
The Climate Competition enable participants to record climate friendly actions using the Ducky Challenge app in a fun, collaborative way while competing against their peers and colleagues.
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Sustainable Kildare
Find out more about how our Climate Competition, powered by Ducky, supported the Kildare County Chamber and businesses in Kildare on their climate action journey, saving over 54,000 kg of CO2e on the way.
About Global Action Plan
Climate Heroes and Climate Competition is Global Action Plans new and innovative programme that supports communities, businesses and schools around Ireland to take informed climate decisions. Find out more about Global Action Plan
www.globalactionplan.ie
Need more information
Still not sure what this is all about. Then drop us a quick email at climatecompetition [@] globalactionplan.ie or fill out the form below and we'd be happy to have a chat
The challenge sponsor
This challenge is funded by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs.
Irish Aid is the Government’s overseas development programme which supports partners working in some of the world’s poorest countries. Irish Aid also supports global citizenship education in Ireland to encourage learning and public engagement with global issues.
You can find out more about GAPs ACT Global Citizenship programme here
