There are +630 active Ashoka Fellows and many Ashoka Young Changemakers working to rebalance humanity’s relationship with the planet while creating environmental agency across all ages, socio-economic levels and geographies.
These changemakers are redefining a new way of being human and the fact that we are nature and therefore we have a role to play, while bringing system-changing innovations that go from protecting ecosystems, to designing new architectures and building new narratives around climate action.
We have supported thousands of visionary social innovators over the last 40 years, and we want to continue doing so.
We are committed to finding and supporting Social Entrepreneurs with novel ideas for a just transition, focused on fixing the underlying problems that cause the ecological emergency, with presence on all 7 continents.
Help us find the next 100 pioneering solutions in Planet & Climate! What big ideas do you see out there? What social entrepreneurs are driving them? Tell us today!
Who are the Ashoka Planet & Climate Fellows?
Ashoka is the world’s largest network of social environmental innovators globally, with 76% of Planet & Climate Ashoka Fellows elected in the Global South since 1980.
These entrepreneurs champion new ideas that transform society’s systems and impact regulation, governments, industries, while improving the lives of millions of people.
Check out the infographics below to understand more about the Ashoka Planet & Climate Fellows and the patterns of their impact.
What do they do?
As a way to start distilling the climate solutions from our network into patterns, we have clustered the Planet & Climate Fellows and their solutions in three different categories: Nature Safeguards, Designers of New Architecture and Culture Builders.
Fellows Impact in the last weeks
Ashoka Fellows have been striking for a sustainable future through collective effort, and here you can find some of the latest updates around their work:
- With the recently signed Ocean Treaty, we highlight the work of Sea Rangers Service. Fellow Wietse van der Werf (The Netherlands) is developing “blue skills” for ocean conservation and employability through his organization, skilling young people to regenerate our seas and oceans while also tackling the impact of climate change.
- Ashoka Fellow Ann Dumaliang gathered members of the diplomatic corps to discuss urgent environmental issues in the country at the Philippines’ last green corridor, Masungi Georeserve. Ann heads the Foundation which protects Masungi.
- In Brazil, president Lula officially recognizes 6 areas as indigenous territories, protecting indigenous peoples’ “original rights to the lands they traditionally occupy,” a process led by Ashoka Fellow and elected federal deputy Joenia Wapichana who is the first indigenous person to head up the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai).
- New book out by Fellow Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka (Uganda). In her memoir Walking With Gorillas, shares her journey from her childhood in Uganda, enduring the assassination of her father during a military coup, to her veterinarian education in England, to becoming Uganda’s first wildlife vet looking after the well-being and coexistence of people and wild animals in order to prevent disease outbreaks.
