Earth Day 2023
ReportPresented by EARTHDAY.ORG

Table of Contents
1

A message from
Kathleen Rogers

2

Earth Day by the
numbers

3

The Annual Climate
Leadership Gala

4

Earth Week

5

Showcase of
Exemplary Efforts

6

Earth Day Africa

7

Earth Day Asia

8

Earth Day MENA

9

Earth Day SouthAmerica

10 Gratitude

A Message From The
President

In a world that sometimes feels like it's descending
into chaos, the language and conversations
surrounding Earth Day bring a resounding sense ofhope. Despite the dire news on climate, theextraordinary impact of Earth Day is witnessed
through the collective actions of thousands ofbusinesses, elected officials, faith groups, and millions
of people investing in our planet. It serves as areminder that even in the face of challenges, hopeprevails and inspires us to work together towards asustainable future for all.

Kathleen Rogers,
President of EARTHDAY.ORG

Earth Day By The Numbers
5,437
Registered EDO 2023
events on the official
Earth Day map (mostever recorded)

3.5

Million pageviews on
EARTHDAY.ORG

15,545EDO Volunteer Corp volunteers in
170 countries

741
Organizations worldwide
have joined the Climate
Literacy Petition as
signatories representing
100s of millions ofmembers, and over 6.3K
additional signatures and2,2K new signups.

1,257,403
Views of Earth Week 2023
livestream events

5

Million trees to beplanted through
The Canopy
Project in 2023

213

My Future My Voice
Ambassadors across 97 countries

12.52
Billion impressions
of EARTHDAY.ORG
media coverage

#1

5.2k

Articles, interviews,
and press releases, inover 192 countries
across 6 continents#EarthDay became thenumber one trending
hashtag across the African
continent on Earth Day

EARTHDAY.ORG In The Media

2023 Climate Leadership Gala
EARTHDAY.ORG successfully
presented the 2023 Climate
Leadership Gala on Thursday, April
27, at the Mayflower Hotel inWashington, D.C. The event
brought together over 300 global
leaders from government,
philanthropy, tech, arts, policy,
finance, conservation, and more tocelebrate monumental climate
achievements and transformative
leadership.
Kathleen Rogers, President of
EARTHDAY.ORG, kicked off thenight with an inspiring keynote
address.
Sam Rose, Climate and Education
Philanthropist, was honored with
our Climate Education Champion
Award for his unrelenting
dedication and philanthropic
passion for education. Rose’s
immense generosity andcommitment to the environmental
movement have brought equitableeducation onto the global agenda
for COP 27 and also helped amplify
voices across the world fighting forequal opportunity and against theclimate crisis. Sam’s award waspresented by Kathleen Rogers,
President of EARTHDAY.ORG.

Award Winners
Marlén Garcia, Executive Director of Earth
Uprising International, received the Youth
Climate Leadership Award for her
passionate and energetic leadership as
an activist on the frontlines. She shines alight on a more comprehensive systems
approach and humanizes theenvironmental movement by giving
voices to marginalized groups. Marlén’saward was presented by Lydia Camarillo,
Board Member of EARTHDAY.ORG and
President of SVREP.
Jacqui Patterson, Founder and Executive
Director of The Chisholm Legacy Project,received the 2023 Women and The Green
Economy Leadership Award for her
extraordinary work in the environmental
movement. By providing criticalresources to Black communities on thefrontline, Patterson’s work is having an
immediate impact and has positioned
her as a role model and mentor for young
women around the globe. Jacqui wasintroduced by Gerald Torres, Board Chair
of EARTHDAY.ORG and Professor ofEnvironmental Justice at Yale School ofForestry and Environmental Studies.
Seth Goldman, Cofounder and CEO of Eat
the Change, Chair of the Board of Beyond
Meat and Co-founder of PLNT Burger andHonest Tea, received the 2023 Climate
Visionary Award in recognition of his
exceptional leadership and decades oftireless efforts as an innovative
entrepreneur, environmental and climate
activist, and philanthropist. Seth waspresented his award by Kathleen Rogers,
President of EARTHDAY.ORG.

Celebrate Monumental
Climate Achievements And
Transformative Leadership

Special Guests
Andrew Steer, CEO of the Bezos EarthFund, joined the evening to discuss theneed for collective action andcooperation to address environmental
challenges by crafting a narrative
acknowledging the current diresituation while also inspiring optimismand motivation for the future. Steer
highlighted the importance of notassuming past patterns will continue inthe future, and the need to understandboth the negative and positive tipping
points in the fight against climatechange.
Jeff Hoffman, former NASA astronautand participant in the very first EarthDay in 1970, representing Space
Perspective, a major sponsor for thegala, joined us for a special message on
the important role space travel can playin transforming humanity’s perceptionof our planet.
Amanda Seyfried, the award-winning
actress and co-founder of Make It Cute,spoke as a special guest for the event,highlighting her innovative toy
company, Make It Cute, and her supportof The Canopy Project. Amanda
highlighted the urgent need forenvironmental action to create asustainable world for current and future
generations.
The evening also included special video
messages from Ann Druyan and Denis
Hayes.

Earth Week 2023 served as a powerful catalyst to awaken and inspire us to takeresponsibility for our actions and work together in innovative ways to build asustainable and equitable world.
EARTHDAY.ORG brought leaders from across all sectors together in its farthest
reaching efforts to date with a series of nine Earth Day Live virtual events, and major
on-the-ground events in every time zone in the USA and around the world to amplify
inspiration and action worldwide from April 14 - 22.

Creating A Waste Free World
Michael Karapetian, The Great Global Cleanup Manager, was joined by Kelly
Bencheghib, Cofounder of Sungai Watch, Noah Ullman, Chief Marketing officer at
Keep America Beautiful, Merle Liivand, EARTHDAY.ORG Ambassador, and Steve
Jewett, Founder of National Cleanup Day, to discuss the powerful work being done tofind solutions to the immense problem our planet faces and how individuals can takeactions into their own hands to fight against plastic pollution at a downstream level.

Fashion’s Age Of Invention – Part II: Toward A Balance With Nature
EARTHDAY.ORG’s Fashion for the Earth Coordinator, Shelley Rogers, joined forces
with Kerry Bannigan, the Co-Founder of the United Nations’ Conscious Fashion andLifestyle Network, to host the second webinar of a two-part series to look at theremarkable developments in technologies bringing about: transparency, a way ofrecycling not heretofore possible, and a method of controlling overproduction andwaste in the fashion industry. The two were joined by Constanza Gomez, Co-Founderof Sortile, Peter Majeranowski,President of Circ, Natasha Frank, Founder & CEO of
EON, and Beth Esponnette, Co-Founder of unspun.

Activating Elected Officials At
All Levels For Earth Day
Celeste Connors, CEO of Hawaii Green
Growth and Leader in Sustainability,
was joined by three elected
representatives at the forefront ofenvironmental policy making: U.S.
Representative Adriano Espaillat (D-NY),
Delaware State Representative Sophie
Phillips, and Mayor of Hoboken City, NJ
Ravinder Bhalla. Together they
discussed the importance of investingin our planet for elected leaders at all
three levels of the U.S. government andhow they play a key role in addressing
the issues that matter most to the
public.

Climate Education At COP28:
The Road To Climate Literacy
And Equitable Education
Jonny Dabrowski, Founding Member of
the Climate Education Coalition, and
Max Falcone, EARTHDAY.ORG
Consultant, sat down with Kathleen
Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG,
Vanessa Nakate, UNICEF & Goodwill
Ambassador, Sarah Shaw, Senior
Advisor, Partnerships for the COP28
Presidency, Haldis Holst, Deputy
General Secretary of Education
International, and Laura Frigenti, CEO of
Global Partnership for Education, todiscuss the importance of all
stakeholders to embrace quality climate
education in the COP 28 agenda, as wellas its importance in building a climate
conscious society, green jobs, andsustainable technology.

Ending Plastic Pollution:The Role The
Petrochemical And Tobacco Industries PlayIn Plastic Pollution
EARTHDAY.ORG’s Aidan Charron was joined by Holly
Thompson, Zero Waste Associate for the U.S. Public
Interest Research Group, Dom Ferris, CEO of Trash Free
Trails C.I.C., Rev. Yearwood, President & CEO of Hip Hop
Caucus, and Rebecca Brown, USA Director for Tobacco
Free Portfolios, to speak on greenwashing techniques,
corporate responsibility, and environmental advocatesaddressing the ways corporations must act better andbecome a part of the solution to end plastic pollution.

Stewards Of The Soil: Addressing The
Climate Crisis From The Ground Up
Brenna Simmons-St. Onge, Executive Director of The
Alliance Center, was joined by Jolie Brawner, Director ofRegenerative Recovery Coalition, Andrea Yoloteotl
Nawage, Founder and Chief Executive Director for
Harvest of All First Nations, Clark Harshbarger, Director of
Stewardship at Mad Agriculture, Marissa Pulaski and Nick
DiDomenico , Co-Executiv Directors of Drylands
Agroecology Research (DAR) to discuss the importanceof soil health in the face of the climate crisis by looking at
solutions through the lens of Indigenous knowledge inthe regenerative agriculture space and ultimately
focusing on giving more than we take.

Gaming For Good: A Catalyst For
Environmental Change
Michael Karapetian, EARTHDAY.ORG’s Great Global
Cleanup Manager, was joined by Hanno Fichtner,
Christian Rossi, and Victoria Raiser from Sankari Studios
and Shayne Hayes from Arsht Rock to discuss KATOA, a
new video game released on April 22, offering players
two-fold benefits by connecting the virtual environment
to real-world biomes and educating them about climate
literacy. The game’s developers, Sankari Studios,partnered with nonprofits globally, including
EARTHDAY.ORG, to fund critical conservation initiatives.
As players complete missions, they earn impact points
which translate into real money for conservation efforts.

Why Blockchain? Accelerating And Funding
Climate Solutions At Scale
EARTHDAY.ORG and Celo werejoined by Rene Reinsberg, Cofounder of Celo & President at the
Celo Foundation, Sophia Li, Cofounder at STEWARD & Co-chair of
the World Economic Forum’s Web3
Sustainability Coalition, and Anna
Lerner, CEO at the Climate Collective,
to discuss blockchain technology andhow web3 can help tackle theclimate crisis by encouraging
accountability, efficient transactions
and renewable energy sources, andsmart contracts feeding green
energy back into the grid andenabling the energy transition.

How Seeing Our Finite Planet From The Hostile
Blackness Of Space Can Drive Positive Change
Jane Poynter, Founder and Co-CEOof Space Perspective, was joined by
special guests Ann Druyan, lateastronomer Carl Sagan's wife,
longtime collaborator, and Emmyand Peabody Award-winning writer,
producer and director, and Jeff
Hoffman, former NASA astronaut,professor of aerospace engineering
at MIT and Space Perspective
Technical Advisor, to discuss Sagan’s
legacy and the important role spacetravel plays in transforming
humanity's perception of our planet.

Showcase Of
Exemplary Efforts
For Earth Day 2023

EARTHDAY.ORG’s National Campaign worked with 852 not-for-profit partners
from all demographics, including volunteer organizations, universities, faithorganizations, city governments, indigenous groups, business councils, justiceadvocates, and more. The Earth Day Event Map supported a total of 5,473 eventsin 136 countries, setting a new all-time record for most events registered for Earth
Month, with more than two and a half times as many submissions as last year
(which received 2,090 event registrations) and twice as many submissions as thepreviously most successful year (2020, which received 2,559 registrations). An
estimated 366,860,000 people were reached and 2,276,000 volunteers wereinvolved in the efforts of The National Campaign.

The Pledge To Our Keiki Signing Event At
Hawaii’s State Capital
The Pledge to Our Keiki is a promise for a sustainable future and reducing human impact on theenvironment for generations to come. Created by local students and modeled after the successful
Palau Pledge, The Pledge to Our Keiki commits to respect and care for life, land, and water by callingon people, businesses, and government agencies to safeguard Hawaii’s natural resources, reduce
waste, and promote a sustainable future.
On Friday, April 21, an Earth Day event was held in the central atrium of the Hawaii State Capitol
Building. Evan Raskin, EARTHDAY.ORG’s National Campaign Manager, delivered a headline speech forthe event, alongside the President of Palau, Governor of Hawaii, and Mayor of Oahu on the subject ofpolicies for elected leaders to Invest In Our Planet as a means of fulfilling the Pledge to Our Keiki (keiki
meaning children in the Hawaiian language) which was formally signed during the event, kicking off
a 5-year plan to implement environmental literacy into public education classrooms across the state.
Many state senators and representatives were also in attendance as audience members.

Global Moment Of Peace
Karuna Singh, Director of Earth Day Asia, Rodolfo Beltran, Director of Earth Day South America, andEvan Raskin, EARTHDAY.ORG’s National Campaign Manager, coordinated an international, interfaithGlobal Moment of Peace initiative for Earth Day 2023. Over 134 events in more than 138 countries
brought these efforts to life with sunrise events held in natural spaces of spiritual importance to the
local community. Alongside colleagues from EARTHDAY.ORG’s international offices, The National
Campaign partnered with Bhrama Kumaris and other faith leaders in their networks to lead sunrise
ceremonies on Earth Day atop some of Earth’s most beautiful landscapes, like Machu Picchu.
Kanu Hawaii led sunrise ceremonies on the east-facing shores of every island as well as atop two
volcanoes, Haleakalā & Mauna Kea. This is the first time Native Hawaiian spiritual traditions have beenfeatured in the National Campaign. Evan Raskin, EARTHDAY.ORG’s National Campaign Manager,attended Oahu’s flagship location at 5 AM on Earth Day, joined by Indigenous spiritual leaders,colleagues from Kanu, the President of Palau and his cohort, and others. In the Native Hawaiian
tradition, these sunrise ceremonies are called E Ala E, which means “Arise and Awaken”. The chant isdesigned to dissolve the barrier between self and other to allow participants to understand all life on
Earth is part of the same whole.

Green Governance& Advocacy

In the lead up to Earth Day, On April 17, the National Campaign hosted an Earth Day Live
webinar titled: Activating Elected Officials at All Levels for Earth Day.
Congressman Adriano Espaillat, Delaware State Representative Sophie Philips, and Mayor Ravi
Bhalla of Hoboken, NJ joined as panelists, and Celeste Connors, former Director for Climate
Change & Environment for the Obama White House, was the moderator. Each of the panelists
discussed their current climate efforts, and how Earth Month would play a role in advancing
these initiatives while also setting new goals as well. Each panelist had also set a milestone fordiversity, equity, & inclusion in their jurisdiction and, as such, all panelists were able to speak on
the importance of representation in forming environmental solutions to ensure vulnerable
communities are not left behind as we work to solve climate and other global environmental
challenges.
The National Campaign formed a partnership with ICLEI in fall of 2022 to activate mayors
worldwide for Earth Day and beyond. These efforts began at COP27, where two panels ofmayors from 10 jurisdictions in 3 continents representing over 8.6 million constituents kicked off
the #StockTake4ClimateEmergency campaign. On Earth Day, ICLEI mayors around the country
held stocktake events to evaluate their cities’ progress on climate and readjust their targets toensure new implementation will occur ahead of COP28.
On Earth Day, at least 373 marches, rallies, and other activist events were featured on the
General Earth Day Map including: a letter campaign for public advocacy for the Earth Bill, over
50 student-led advocacy campaigns on college campuses for #YouthEarthWeek, and major
protests, like The Big One in the UK where more than 60,000 individuals marched side by side
to fight for Parliament to act against the climate crisis.

The Great Global
Cleanup

The Great Global Cleanup continues to be EARTHDAY.ORG’s flagshipvolunteer initiative, growing in impact and reach each year,
introducing individuals to the environmental movement throughenjoyable cleanups fostering deep and meaningful connections
with nature and activism. An extensive network of dedicatedpartners joined forces with The Great Global Cleanup to address theglobal challenge of environmental cleanliness and plastic pollution.
These partners include Kanu Hawaii, Let’s Do It World, National
Cleanup Day, Keep America Beautiful, as well as with many othergrassroots organizations worldwide. Each organization andindividual’s contribution to The Great Global Cleanup acts as a
crucial building block in the collective effort to preserve our planet's
natural beauty and Invest in Our Planet.

The Great Global Cleanup became therecommended volunteer activity for Benevity
Volunteers and had keystone events
happening in every time zone this Earth Day,
including:Merle Liivand, EARTHDAY.ORG’s Global
Ambassador, swam in honor of the fight toend plastic pollution. Liivand swam 30 miles
in a world-record 14 hours and 15 minutes.
During this swim, she cleaned up 30
pounds of trash out of Biscayne Bay in
Miami, Florida.
Keep America Beautiful, Inc. and
EARTHDAY.ORG partnered with
PalmettoPride/ Keep South Carolina
Beautiful for a friendly competition
between Lowcountry and Upstate regional
cleanups. Lowcountry won with a 23%
participation rate and 61 pounds per person,
while Upstate had a 12% participation rateand 36 pounds per person.
EARTHDAY.ORG partnered with Aqualung& PADI (the world’s leading scubaorganizations), as well as Kanu Hawaii, toassemble #DiveForEarthDay, an effort toengage the global scuba community byorganizing underwater cleanup events
around the Pacific Ocean, primarily in the
Hawaiian Islands and Palau. On Earth Day,
EDO’s National Campaign Manager, Evan
Raskin participated in the flagship event for
Dive For Earth Day at Ala Moana Beach
Park, also known as Magic Island: apeninsula on the coast of Honolulu wellknown in the community for extreme levelsof pollution. Dozens of scuba divers worked
to remove over three tons of trash from
Magic Island’s heavily polluted waters.
Before the dive, this team met with theGovernor of Hawaii to discuss theimportance of this work and the need forhis strong leadership on ending plastic
pollution and ocean conservation.

Fashion For The
Earth
EARTHDAY.ORG’s Fashion for the Earth
campaign calls on the youth of the world
to take a proactive approach inaddressing
thefashionindustry’s
environmental impacts by addressing
the public’s lack of understanding about
the inner workings of fast fashion. Overthe past three decades fast fashion has
completely revolutionized the apparelindustry, but not for the better. Behind
every piece of clothing in a store, there isan industry stripping the Earth of its
limited resources, exploiting the labor
force working in its garment factories,
destroying our air, land, and waterways,
and detrimentally impacting the healthof all biodiversity on Earth.
To educate individuals on the fashionindustry, the Fashion for the Earth
campaign partnered with The Fashion
Impact Fund and the Conscious Fashion
and Lifestyle Network, both of which arepart of the United Nations Office ofPartnerships, to host a series of two EarthDay Live webinars. The first webinar, The
Fashion Industry’s Age of Invention– Part
I: Fabulous Fabrics for the Future,
discussed the newest innovations intextile fibers. These fibers are made ofnatural elements, do not contain the oilbased synthetic materials found in mostclothing fabrics, and are an importantpart of the solution to fashion’s toxic
contamination of our air, soil, and waterand microplastic pollution.

The second webinar, Fashion’s Age of
Invention – Part II: Toward a Balance with
Nature, looked at the remarkabledevelopments in technologies bringing
about: transparency, a way of recycling
not heretofore possible, and a method ofcontrolling overproduction and waste in
the fashion industry.
The Fashion for the Earth Campaign
Manager, Shelley Rogers, was interviewed
by Cheddar TV and was able to reach an
immediate audience of 172,947 individuals
to discuss how fast fashion is hurting theplanet and to showcase alternative
options for environmentally-conscious
shoppers.

In the months leading up to Earth Day
2023, Fashion for the Earth worked withvolunteers to develop a Swap for the Earthtoolkit which was sent to 275 universities
and colleges around the U.S. to provide
youth with a tangible resource to help
mitigate fast fashion’s immense negative
effects on our environment. Swapping
clothes shifts our mindset away fromspending money on fast fashion andinstead investing in a sustainable world.

Climate Education &Environmental Literacy

In a world grappling with climate change, providing formal, comprehensive climate andenvironmental education in our schools, universities, trade programs, and professional
schools is essential in understanding, mitigating, and adapting to the impacts of climatechange. EARTHDAY.ORG believes every learner in every school in the world should
receive fully integrated, assessed climate and environmental education, coupled with astrong civic engagement component. Launched in the summer of 2020,
EARTHDAY.ORG’s Climate Education and Environmental Literacy campaign combines
grassroots support and on the ground efforts by students, educators, and nonprofits
with national level commitments from Ministries of Education and Environment. toensure students across the world will reap the benefit from high-quality education todevelop into informed and engaged environmental stewards.
At COP 27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, we debuted the first-of-its-kind multimedia
pavilion, The Climate Education Hub, to urgently elevate ideas, solutions and actions topromote climate education and build the green economy. The momentum built at
COP27 continued through Earth Day 2023 and now towards COP28. The Climate
Education Hub worked in partnership with civil society organizations, global partners,
and supporters to bring daily programming, actions, and commitments that brought
together a diverse portfolio of stakeholders to collaborate and debate on issues related
to education and climate action. At the Climate Education Hub, EARTHDAY.ORG
announced The Climate Education Coalition, an alliance of over 100 organizations andindividuals around the globe working to promote climate education and demand it as anegotiating topic for COP 28.

The Climate Education Coalition
published an open letter to the
COP 28 United Arab Emirates
Presidency and all United Nation
State Members demanding
cooperation and collaborative
action to establish quality
education for children, youth, andadults to combat the climate crisis.
The letter has received support
from 741 organizations, as well as
5195 individual signatures, and waspassed to the UAE Ministry of
Education by EARTHDAY.ORG’s
President.

Leading up to Earth Day 2023, andas a part of Earth Week,
EARTHDAY.ORG hosted an EarthDay Live digital event called
Climate Education at COP28: The
Road to Climate Literacy andEquitable Education. The event
consisted of high-level panelists
including the CEO of Global
Partnerships for Education, Laura
Frigenti, Executive Director of
Earth Uprising, Marlen Garcia,
COP28 Partnerships Department
Senior Advisor, Sarah Shaw, andEDO President, Kathleen Rogers,
and received nearly 500,000 views.

Earth Day Africa
Highlights

In Zimbabwe, Earth Day Africa worked withstaff and partners in Sub-Saharan countries toactivate everyday citizens to rise and cometogether to make positive, tangible, andsustainable changes to protect Africa.
Following
up
on
the
first
ever
commemoration in 2022, Earth Day Africa
hosted the second annual Earth Day Fiesta on
Saturday, April 22, to celebrate Earth Day andshare the African Climate Story through a day
full of traditional African music, food, and arts,and collectively advocating for environmentand climate action. More than 6,000 people
attended the outdoor event and over 148,000
participated digitally.

IWith the help of nearly 60 partners, the team in Africa was able to achieve many victories
this Earth Day, including:#EarthDay became the number one trending hashtag across the continent on EarthDay.
Hosting a paper presentation on ‘Strategic Investment for Preserving the Planet’ and awebinar with GreenFaith about ‘Intergenerational Advantages to Investing in the
Earth’.
More than 30,000 trees were planted, including the planting of over 1,000 mangrovesin Mombasa, Kenya in commemoration of Earth Day with Fridays for the Future Kenya.
As part of the Great Global Cleanup, more than 40 volunteer clean up events
throughout major cities in Africa were held, leadingto the start of the Plastics Treaty
Coalition Africa.
Kenya’s Miss Earth pageant pushes businesses in the fashion industry to implement
sustainable business practices for the first time ever.
More than 1 million people in Africa participated in official in-person Earth Day events.
Kenya , Uganda, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, Ghana, Togo,
Sudan, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Liberia, Lesotho, Burkina Faso,
Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Cote D’ivore, Chad, Namibia, and Mauritius haveall committed to implementing climate literacy initiatives.

Earth Day Asia
Highlights

India
Earth Day India's consistent outreach and innovative
campaigns translated into media outreach of 1 billion plus
with hundreds of events, initiatives, pledges and messages tomark Earth Day 2023.
For the first time, the federal Government of India hosted a
special concert. On Earth Day, our Ambassador, three-time
Grammy Award winner, composer and environmentalist Ricky
Kej, performed at an exclusive concert in the country's capital,
Delhi. Officials and VIP invitees attended the show hosted by
the federal government. One of India's senior most ministers,
Federal Minister for Earth Sciences, Dr Jitendra Singh,welcomed the guests and spoke about the need for all to'Invest in Our Planet.' He launched 'Earth and Environment',
Ricky's latest composition. Ricky's Eve of Earth Day concert
was held the previous day in India's financial capital, Mumbai.
Over 1,000 cheering fans attended it.
On Earth Day, workstations were set up at a stadium in Delhi
for students to assemble climate clocks. Our Ambassador, theSolar Man of India, Chetan Singh Solanki (the founder ofEnergy Swaraj Foundation), led this initiative. A total of 559
clocks were made, resulting in recognition from the Asia Book
of Records as the highest ever. News of the event made it to aticker tape in Union Square, NYC. It trended on Twitter alongwith Earth Day on April 22.

Earth Day Invest in Our Planet 53 Insta Lives waslaunched on
March 1 on the official @EarthDayNetworkIndia
Instagram account. These ended officially on April
22, totalling 56 lives in 53 days. Each day, a new
speaker was featured, each of whom helped
broaden awareness about EARTHDAY.ORG’s
initiatives. All colleagues in India were featured totalk about significant pan-India Earth Day eventswith support from major organizations, including
the government. Our Stars, such as the Plogman
of India, the Nest Man of India, Rising Stars, andMy Future My Voice Youth Ambassadors, all lent
their voices to the Insta Lives to increaseawareness about our activities.
For the 53rd anniversary, Earth Day Network
India’s Star Municipal Leadership Awards eBook
was launched, featuring 53 municipal bodies who
have positively impacted the environment with
their policies and initiatives.
Spearheaded by Matter.in with the support of
EARTHDAY.ORG, cleanups were conducted ineight major cities across India. 1,771 kg of waste
were collected and sent to the relevant municipalorganization for scientific disposal. A fun-filled
fiesta for over a thousand people was held on
Earth Day in Mumbai to mark the cleanups andfeatured a special star attraction, a band of
Dharavi slum residents.

Earth Day Ambassador for Japan, Sugizo, is acomposer, guitarist, and violinist, and is mostprominently known for his work with the band
Luna Sea. Sugizo’s work also includes music forfilms, TV commercials, and the popular Japanese
animation called 'anime.' Parallel to his work inthe music field, Sugizo supports numerous social
issues and acts as an influential voice against
whaling. As a strong environmental activist,
Sugizo helps spread awareness about the need toprotect and invest in our planet by reminding
everyone if Earth continues to suffer from theimpacts of climate change, humans will notsurvive.
Nadine Lustre, the well-renowned Filipino artist
with an award-winning career in music, film, andtelevision, has joined EARTHDAY.ORG as our Earth
Ambassador for the Philippines. Nadine is achampion for the environment and has madeconscious shifts in her lifestyle to live moresustainably. Her passion for a cleaner, greener andless polluted Earth has led her to volunteer as anhonorary park ranger for Masungi Georeserve andwith the Siargao Environmental Awareness (SEA)
Movement. Nandine also partners with 'For the
Future', an organization focused on building
environmental stewardship among youth,
working towards ecological sustainability,
reforesting denuded areas, and increasing thegreen canopy.
Now our formidable group of Earth Day
Ambassadors include Alex Rendell (Thailand), Bibi
Russell (Bangladesh), Bombay Jayashri Ramnath(India), Dasho Paljor J. Dorji (Benji) (Bhutan), Juhi
Chawla (India), Kaushiki Chakraborty (India), Dr. L.
Subramaniam (India), Lê Nguyễn Bảo Ngọc(Vietnam), Mariyam Maeesha (Maldives), Melissa
Tan (Malaysia), Michelle Dilhara (Sri Lanka),
Nadine Lustre (The Philippines), Ricky Kej (India),
Plogman of India Ripu Daman Bevli, Sonam
Wangchuk (India), Soumik Datta (UK) and Sugizo(Japan).

Vietnam
EARTHDAY.ORG’s recently appointed Earth Day
Vietnam Advisor, Hong Hoang of Vietnam
Climate Action, and Earth Day Ambassador Le
Nguyen Bao Ngoc Miss Intercontinentalorganized 70 events in Vietnam for Earth Day
2023. With our representatives in Vietnam
rallying volunteers and partner organizations toparticipate in The Great Global Cleanup andclimate literacy events involving#ArtistsForTheEarth, Earth Day greatly expanded
its presence and influence in Vietnam this year.
Xanh Việt Nam worked with Hong Hoang and Le
Nguyen Bao Ngoc to organize a series of Great
Global Cleanups to collect trash from 60
locations in various provinces and cities ofVietnam. Thousands of volunteers of all ages,
families, students and children in the many
towns and regions joined hands to help collect,
sort and recycle waste. The main event took
place on Earth Day in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC)
at Chu Van An Kite Park with the participation ofEarth Day Advisor Hong Hoang, Ambassador Le
Nguyen Bao Ngoc, Earth Day Vietnam
coordinating team, local government
representatives and nearly 200 volunteers. The
group collected more than two tons of waste.

ChinaEarth Day China and International China
Environmental Foundation (IFCE) celebrated theworld's largest environmental event Earth Day in 2023.
Sponsored by the foundation, and with the support of
Xinhua Net, China Net, China Philanthropist and otherinstitutions, a series of environmental activities such as
forums, cleanup jogging, music performances, andyouth creative activities were carried out in many
places across China for the month of April.
Popular on Chinese social media platforms such as
Sina Weibo, Earth Day China hosted a series of naturethemed live broadcasts, gaining more than 100 million
views on the entire network.
The series consists of urgent environmental topics:
Protecting the Ocean in Action
Approaching the 'Second National Treasure'Yunnan Golden Monkey
High-Level Expert Dialogue

Young people from all over the country
gathered and created various forms of art,such as painting, calligraphy, music, dance,
speech, and creative handicrafts. Earth Day
China believes that teenagers are the futureof the earth.
Through such meaningful public welfare
and environmental protection activities, a
global platform has been built for Chinese
teenagers. Young people are educated andencouraged to shoulder the responsibility of
being earth citizens and loving nature.
For the first time, the Earth Day China event
invited sci-tech students to participate.
Nearly 10,000 sci-tech students used
programming as a tool to speak out forprotecting the earth on the co-creation
platform.
Shanghai Shiwai Primary School
encourages children to understand themeaning of protecting the earth and loving
life through a variety of interdisciplinary
natural science courses. The course
broadens students' knowledge, enhances
their sense of social responsibility, and truly
realizes the goal of quality education in linewith international standards and training
future global talents.
The Beijing Orson Running Group
organized a cleanup while jogging, which
was covered by the media as " the coolest
and most fashionable way of fitness".

JapanEarth Day Japan saw a vibrant shift in celebrations after several subdued years due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. Communities united with renewed purpose, embodied hope, andrekindled their commitment to a greener, brighter future. In 2023, more than 20% ofJapan’s eight regions held Earth Day gatherings for the first time ever, including youth-led
events in three separate locations and 10 cleanups across the island country. In total, Japan
hosted 32 local events, 10 online events, and more than 70 corporate actions. These events
include:Plastic bottle cap collections and vaccines donations on behalf of the Kofu initiative ofhigh school students.
Actions to strengthen connections through music, dance, and culture
Japanese traditional dance in Tokyo and traditional folk songs on Yoron Island tostrengthen community connection through music, dance, and culture.
Environmental film screenings at the Starry Sky Cinema in Kyoto.
Reading sessions and a march for children to participate in.
Upcycling traditional crafts, books, and pictures, digital plant and animal observations,and Kimono remakes in Kyoto.
Display and use of disaster prevention toilets and opportunities to compost restaurant
waste in Kobe.
Presentations of organizations in support of banning conventional disposable plastic
containers and encouraging visitors to bring their own tableware and water bottles in
Kyoto.
DigitalArt 4 Climate Japan (Earth Day x Web3 project for COP28) and music for SDGs.

Since the beginning of 2022, Earth Day Open Meetings, held monthly on behalf of EarthDay Japan, have been consistently disseminating information about environmental
initiatives across Japan. These meetings have fostered stronger collaborations withorganizations throughout the country, aiming to amplify daily environmental actions inconjunction with Earth Day Japan.
Furthermore, there has been a notable rise in Earth Day actions showcasing regional
distinctions. In addition to addressing climate change, biodiversity, and youth
perspectives, the intention is to continually contemplate Earth Day from a cultural
standpoint, fostering a movement empowering individuals and organizations to takeproactive measures.

Earth Day MENA
Highlights

Through intensive communications — especially in the
countries most responsive to previous campaigns — EDO
was able to mobilize its partners to extend outreach efforts
and involve more local governments, schools, NGOs,
individuals, and businesses to Invest In Our Planet. Twenty
countries in the region organized numerous environmental
and educational activities for Earth Day 2023. Countries
include: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Israel,
Palestinian Territories, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq, Saudi
Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, Oman in addition to
Pakistan, Azerbaijan and Georgia. Over 94 NGOs,
educational institutions, governments, and businesses
participated in environmental and awareness activities,
broad and extensive media coverage were published, andparticipants engaged physically in events for Earth Day
2023 all across the region.

Most notably, the Undersecretary of Iraq’s Ministry of Environment, Dr.
Jasim Al Falahy, signed a letter of commitment to include climate
education as a part of Iraq’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC)
plan to the Paris Agreement. In doing so, Iraq promises to embrace
environmental education as a vital action on climate change.
For the second year in a row, EARTHDAY.ORG partnered with "Together
to Protect Human & the Environment Association (TOGETHER)" to honor
Earth Day 2023 in Iraq with the students of Cambridge International
School-Erbil, Kurdistan. More than 100 students participated in different
environmental and educational activities throughout the day. In Abu
Dhabi, UAE, young environmentalists and green activists Sainath (15years old) and Sai Sahana (13 years old) Manikandan raised awareness intheir school and community regarding the 6Rs - reduce, reuse, recycle,
repair, rethink and refuse. Both organized recycling and clean up
campaigns to show even small steps can make a huge difference.
Alongside other ecowarriors and volunteers, the two removed 1200 kg ofglass and 15 kg of plastics.

Earth Day
South America
Highlights

Earth Day South America saw unprecedented levels of enthusiasm and dedication, witheleven Ministries of Environment and Education in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia,
Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil making directstatements in three separate languages to show support of Earth Day. More than 30
organizational signatories from 11 different countries signed the Climate Education
Coalition’s open letter to the UAE Presidency of COP 28 and eight countries - including:
Guyana, Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile, Peru, and Colombia - reported progresson climate education initiatives in their National Determined Contributions, as well as
unwithering support for the inclusion of environmental literacy and climate education asa negotiating topic at COP 28. More impressive feats include:
More than 300 partners contributed to nearly 50,000 events across South America, asignificant increase since 2019.
‘Environment Education and Climate Literacy’ and ‘Earth Day 2023’ were two of the
top 100 most frequently searched terms, indicated by Google Trends, in Brazil andSouth America.

EARTHDAY.ORG’s Regional Director of SouthAmerica, Rodolfo Beltran, sat down withAmbassador Walter Clarems Endara,
Secretario Permanente Sistema Económico
Latinoamericano y del Caribe (SELA), todiscuss Earth Day, climate change, economic
development, and their connection to the
productive system. Together, theyemphasized the importance of collaboration,
addressing economic recovery, digitalization,
sustainable development, and thevulnerability of food systems. Key takeaways
include the need for regional integration,
support for small and medium-sizedenterprises, and efforts towards a sustainable
and resilient future.
Renata Moraes, the manager of the Climate
Reality Project in Brasil, highlighted thesignificance of Earth Day by reminding us
this planet is our shared home. Applauding
EARTHDAY.ORG’s work in education andclimate justice, Moraes raised awareness andencouraged collective thinking to address
the climate crisis. Working with thousands ofleaders in Brazil, EARTHDAY.ORG’s
campaigns promote energy efficiency andgreen practices, all with the goal ofpreserving and safeguarding our planet for
future generations.
Rodolfo Beltran and Aidan Charron, End of
Plastics Campaign Manager, were joined byAndrés Del Castillo, Senior Attorney for CIEL’s
Environmental Health Program, to discuss
the first round of negotiations for the plastic
treaty and its significance in addressing
climate change and environmental issues.
The main takeaways included the growing
recognition of plastic pollution as a healthconcern, the importance of climate literacy
and education, and the need for immediate
actions such as moratoriums on new plastic
facilities.

Thank You To
All Eco-Warriors
For Investing In
Our Planet!