Scouts make a Promise to the Planet ahead of COP26

Millions of Scouts will make a Promise to the Planet over the coming months as part of a global campaign to inspire young people to take action for the environment. #PromiseToThePlanet will encourage young people to carry out hundreds of thousands of individual community service actions around the world. The impacts of the campaign will then be presented at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) taking place in the United Kingdom this November.
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“Promise to the Planet is an incredible, youth-led, global campaign against climate change. It’s our moment to say enough is enough. We’re uniting 54 million Scouts around the world to take action and use their voice in the fight for our planet’s future,” said Bear Grylls, Chief Ambassador of World Scouting, who will join together with a team of Scouts at COP26 to share the results of the campaign’s impact, and highlight how young people are making environmental change happen in communities around the globe.
A group of Scouts will join Bear Grylls and world leaders at COP26 in November to advocate for more ambitious policies to build a climate-resilient society, including actions to ensure global warming does not rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius, and just policies that mandate the largest contributors to climate change to take the most action.
Join us in making a Promise to the Planet and encourage young people to take action for the environment by logging their individual and community service projects on the