{"id":5045,"date":"2019-09-03T09:48:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5045"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"the-transformers-un-champions-who-dared-to-reimagine-their-worlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/03\/the-transformers-un-champions-who-dared-to-reimagine-their-worlds\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transformers: UN Champions Who Dared To Reimagine Their Worlds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By the UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A corporate titan with an unconventional agenda; the food\nspecialists who looked outside the (takeaway) box; the ocean explorer whose\nname has become synonymous with conservation: these are just some of the\nenvironmental heroes who have dedicated their lives to bringing their audacious\nvisions of a better world to life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These pioneers are all previous winners of the United\nNations Environment Programme\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/championsofearth\/\">Champions\nof the Earth&nbsp;<\/a>award\u2014the world\u2019s\nflagship environmental honor\u2014and their actions have inspired others to join\nthem in their fight for a cleaner, fairer and more sustainable world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the countdown begins to the announcement of this\nyear\u2019s Champions of the Earth, and ahead of a pivotal Climate Action Summit in\nNew York on 23 September 2019, the energy and vision demonstrated by previous\nChampions are needed more than ever as the world races to decisively cut carbon\nemissions before the worst effects of global warming become inevitable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres wants world\nleaders, businesses and civil society to come to the Summit with concrete plans\nto cut emissions by 45 per cent in the next decade and achieve net zero\nemissions by 2050, in line with the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, and the\nSustainable Development Goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What is required is nothing less than a complete\ntransformation of economies and societies. In short, it\u2019s a job for heroes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thankfully, we already have model citizens to lead us\nforward. The Champions of the Earth have shown year after year that real change\nis possible if individuals commit to overhaul the way they live so that we\nsafeguard the planet\u2019s resources and ensure our own survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here we look at five Champions of the Earth who\ntransformed their own worlds. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/story\/transformers-un-champions-who-dared-reimagine-their-worlds\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the UN Environment A corporate titan with an unconventional agenda; the food specialists who looked outside the (takeaway) box; the ocean explorer whose name has become synonymous with conservation:&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}