Theme pack
For decades, scientists have been talking about climate change, journalists have been covering climate change, and individuals have been experiencing climate change. Rising seas, raging wildfires, heatwaves, erratic rainfall, pest infestations, droughts and crop failures.
Beneath the noise, calls for action, and urgency to slow the warming of the planet, there are quiet steps being taken to live in harmony with nature and adapt to the changing climate. Forests are being replanted. Solar panels stretch across rooftops. Soils are darker and more fertile than they have been in recent years.
World Environment Day 2026 focuses on climate change—on the urgent signals the Earth is sending and the signals we choose to send back. The UN Environment Programme’s global campaign calls on all of us to step in, to move further, to steer a world already in motion. The question is no longer if change comes, but how we guide it and how fast it happens. This year’s theme is “Inspired by Nature. For Climate. For our Future” and uses the hashtag #NowForClimate.
Use the scripts and stories below to celebrate World Environment Day or simply to discuss how people can live in harmony with nature. Over the past four years, Farm Radio International has published many radio resources about Nature-based Solutions, and hundreds of our radio partners have used these resources to produce episodes on nature-based and gender-inclusive climate solutions. Continue this discussion on World Environment Day to show the successes in your community or from communities farther afield, to inspire more people to live with and benefit from nature.
Backgrounders
Gender-responsive Nature-based Solutions
Radio spots
Improving resilience to changes in the climate for farmers
Interview scripts
- Bees provide sustainable income for communities and protect mangroves
- Beekeeping protects forests and sweetens income for farmers in Mzimba, Malawi
- Farmers in the rangelands of Buyende and Kamuli build resilience to fight climate change by planting trees, pasture and food crops
- No more famine: How one man led efforts to restore eight square kilometres of Nyakambu swamp in Sheema District, Western Uganda
- Rehabilitating mangroves in Ghana
- Reforesting the banks of the Zio River is a positive response to environmental challenges
Farmer stories
- Rwanda: Women increase their income through beekeeping
- Mali: Women preserve ancestral knowledge to protect the forest and feed the community
- Nigeria: Sustainable livestock management in Iseyin Town empowers women in protecting biodiversity
- Tanzania: Communities use cultural practices to manage mangroves, reefs, and freshwater resources
- Malawi: Restored forests sweeten lives through apiculture
- Ethiopia: Community-led conservation revives Wof Washa Forest
- Côte d’Ivoire: Communities organize to protect the ecosystem by planting mangroves
- Kenya: Nile Basin farmers grow food forests to restore wetlands and bring back an endangered turtle (Mongabay)
