Instituto Juruá, co-founded by Frontiers International Champion Carlos Peres and his co-author João Vitor Campos-Silva, has been pivotal to the success of the arapaima fish. In tandem, in one village of just 200 people, last year’s harvest of 620 fish was worth over $70,000, a quarter of residents’ annual earnings.

Prof Helen Findlay, National Champion for the UK 2026, gives a commentary on Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and its shifting impacts on marine ecosystems, wildlife, agriculture and more.

SwissNex in Brazil, in collaboration with Frontiers Planet Prize and Climate Week Zurich, organized ‘From Zurich to Amazonia: Co-Creating the Future of the Bioeconomy.’ Integrating diverse perspectives to solve global problems, proceedings included a talk from Switzerland National Champion Co-Author, Dirk Karger, on the rising threat of megadroughts.

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Highlights from the International Conference “Thought and Action: The Path to Regeneration,” organized by the Club of Rome International and its Argentine Chapter. Dr Andrea E. Izquierdo, National Champion for Argentina, joined a panel exploring agroecological and territorial management approaches.

A new report published by the United Nations University - Centre for Policy Research and Frontiers Policy Labs, From Science to Policy: Planetary Solutions in Action, puts forward policy recommendations from the 25 National Champions of the 4th Edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize.

Meet the National Champions of the 4th Edition of the Frontiers Planet Prize.

Dr Liangzhi Chen from Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, National Champion for Switzerland, reveals increasing occurrence and severity of multiyear droughts globally, with significant impacts on vegetation and ecosystem functioning.

Dr Alon Shepon from Tel Aviv University, National Champion for Israel, proposes a Sugar Transition Partnership to help sugar-producing countries reduce or repurpose sugar production while protecting livelihoods and economies.

Dr Daniel Fernández Galeote, from Tampere University, National Champion for Finland proposes a clear framework to advance the research and practice of playful and gameful interventions to advance sustainability transitions.

Dr Csaba Tölgyesi from University of Szeged, National Champion for Hungary, provides a framework for rethinking ecosystem restoration as a tool for climate adaptation rather than a carbon offset.

Prof Amir AghaKouchak from the University of California, Irvine, National Champion for United States, delivers the first global methodology to identify and monitor lake droughts, providing an actionable tool for managing freshwater scarcity.

Dr Ana Sequeira from the Australian National University, National Champion for Australia outlines how to achieve current global conservation targets by revealing the space use of migratory marine megafauna - whales, sharks, turtles, polar bears, and more.

Dr Adama Lo from Centre de Suivi Écologique, National Champion for Senegal, provides a transformative contribution to sustainable rangeland management in the Sahel, one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change,.

Dr Steve Griffiths from American University of Sharjah, National Champion for the United Arab Emirates, provides comprehensive insights into the chemistry driving five major industrial carbon capture (CC) technologies at TRL 4+: absorption, adsorption, membrane-based, cryogenic, and electroswing.

Dr Gunnar Myhre from CICERO Centre for International Climate Research, National Champion for Norway, reveals that the planet is absorbing more solar energy and emitting more longwave radiation than most climate models simulate.

Dr Leticia Garcia from Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, National Champion for Brazil , provides the first high-resolution, countrywide mapping of climate-resilient terrestrial landscapes in Brazil, integrating microclimatic heterogeneity and local connectedness to identify areas with higher potential to buffer climate change.

Dr Nicolas Roux from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, National Champion for Austria, explores how to integrate sufficiency into EU domestic policies and EU trade strategies to align trade with biosphere integrity.

Dr Rutger Hoekstra from Leiden University, National Champion for the Netherlands, strengthens the Beyond GDP movement, by stressing the common focus on Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing and providing a ready-to-use dashboard linking planetary boundaries to broader socio-economic developments.

Prof Ann van Griensven from Vrije University Brussels, National Champion for Belgium, provides an actionable pathway for climate adaptation by integrating land-use management directly into water resource policy across Africa.

Ms Hong Wang from the Southern University of Science and Technology, National Champion for China, provides the first global-scale detection and attribution of how anthropogenic climate change is reshaping the seasonal rhythm of the world’s rivers.