2025 Climate Action Awards
The Misean Cara Climate Action Awards were launched in 2020 to celebrate these projects and inspire others like them. They are presented to people and projects whose innovation and commitment is reducing the impact of climate change on communities in the developing world.
Continue below to read about this year's winning projects.
Second Place
Edmund Rice Development
Sama-Bajau: Building an Inclusive and Resilient Community
Philippines
First Place
Dominican Sisters
Mainstreaming Climate Change and Human Rights
Philippines
Third Place
Salesians Don Bosco Ireland
Bridging Innovation and Learning for Marginalised Youth: Environmental Education and Solar Skills Training
Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe
2025 Climate Action Awards Runners-Up
This year's Climate Action Awards brought in nominations for many excellent projects from around the world. Misean Cara commends the work being done by all of the projects listed below, nominated in 2025, and the dedicated teams and communities hard at work taking action to Care for our Common Home.
- De La Salle Brothers - Paraguay (San Isidro Labrador School: WASH Project for all – rainwater harvesting for the community)
- Franciscan Sisters of the Immaculate Conception - Kenya (Upcycling textile and plastic waste at the Family God Centre rehabilitation home for street boys)
- Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto) - India (Kolkata Mary Ward Social Centre -Biodegradable Waste Management Initiative)
- Marist Brothers - Colombia (Heart Without Borders Education Programme for displaced learners - integrating environmental protection and climate resilience) & Madagascar (New Horizons for a transformative education model in Madagascar, addressing both educational and environmental challenges)
- Missionary Sisters of the Holy Rosary - Kenya (Holy Rosary Health Centre Ngonyek - innovative solutions to climate change in Ngonyek village)
- Saint Patrick's Missionary Society - South Sudan (Sustainability of Safeguarding Children Programme - mainstreaming Climate Education into 17 parish programme activities)
- Viatores Christi - Uganda (1: JPC Hoima - Increasing awareness of the dangers of deforestation and importance of tree planting and 2: “Clean Markets, Healthy Communities” - the Kabalagala Market Climate Action Initiative)
- Vincentian Fathers - Ethiopa (Income generating schemes to ensure the sustainability of Abba Gebremichael Catholic School in Tigray, Ethiopia)