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STORY: UNEP / WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
TRT: 09:00
SOURCE: UNEP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: RECENT, VARIOUS LOCATIONS
RECENT, BRAZIL
1. Various shots, dancers, Escola Santos Dumont
RECENT
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Jason Momoa, Actor, Advocate for Life Below Water, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“Aloha mai kākou! I'm Jason Momoa and where I come from, movement means something. It carries story, respect, connection. And right now, the planet’s speaking to us and we've got to listen. So, for World Environment Day, the United Nations Environment Programme is celebrating movement and the power of using our voices to create change. Aloha.”
RECENT, BRAZIL
3. Various shots, dancers, Floreser Danca and LM Dance Arte
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Alok, Brazilian Musician and DJ, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“As an artist, I realized that I have the responsibility to use my platform to bring awareness about climate change, global warming also, you know, to potentialize the Indigenous voices in order to get the ancestral wisdom to co-create a sustainable future."
RECENT, CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA
5. Various shots, dancers, Untimitive Dance Company
RECENT, UNITED STATES
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Amber Valletta, Actress and Model, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“Happy World Environment Day. We're making so much progress on climate action. But we need more. Our planet can't wait. So, how low can you go? I can go pretty low, I think, I think, I think.”
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
7. Wide shot, Tanzanian recording artist Frida Amani limbo dancing
RECENT
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoinette Taus, Singer and Actress, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“Happy World Environment Day. Everything we do today shapes the world our children will grow up in. And I believe that when we move together, we can create something beautiful.”
RECENT, PANAMA CITY, PANAMA
9. Wide shot, staff members of the UN Environment Programme limbo dancing
RECENT
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Antoinette Taus, Singer and Actress, Goodwill Ambassador, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“So, this World Environment Day let's limbo together. Let's move together. Dance now for climate and show that every movement, every voice and every person matters.”
RECENT, MADRID, SPAIN
11. Wide shot, Epsilon Dance Cover group
RECENT
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Niklas Hagelberg, Senior Programme Management Officer, Global Coordinator, Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“For World Environment Day 2026, our focus is on implementing climate action. We have all the plans in place. We have all the technologies and even the economics are on our side. So, it's really roll up our socks, pull up our sleeves, adjust our glasses and get going with action.
RECENT, MADRID, SPAIN
13. Various shots, Epsilon Dance Cover group
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Niklas Hagelberg, Senior Programme Management Officer, Global Coordinator, Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“So, the most pressing climate action things that we can do in 2026 is really the energy transition; shifting to renewable energy, electrifying everything in our economy, in our lives. This is electric mobility, how our electricity comes forth and it's heat pumps. And the second part is methane. So, gas that comes out from either fossil fuel production, landfills or agricultural production.”
RECENT, BRAZIL
15. Wide shot, Rodrigo Dancer Swag dancing in a Spiderman costume
RECENT
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Niklas Hagelberg, Senior Programme Management Officer, Global Coordinator, Climate Change, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“I'm really hopeful. The glass is always half full. We're still not winning the battle, but the progress that we can see is tremendous. It's happening in a blink of an eye. If you look at a person's life span.”
RECENT, BRAZIL
17. Various shots, dancers Arte em Movimento Ana Zucchi and Voice of the Oceans
RECENT
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Miranda Grant, Multimedia, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“Yeah, so World Environment Day is a day to invite people around the world to celebrate the environment, to celebrate nature and the world that we live in. And we wanted a way to avoid using any specific language so that it was really accessible. And that naturally brought us to the language of dance and movement. It's universal and it's really joyous. I think what we're seeing right now in climate communications is a whole lot of fatigue.”
RECENT, BRAZIL
19. Various shots, dancers Wiliam Lacerda and Jessila Nealvess
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Miranda Grant, Multimedia, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“And we wanted to design a campaign that would cut through that and to use a different type of emotion. And we're really inviting people to express themselves through joy and to see the hope and to see the progress that we are making.”
21. Wide shot, children from Project Elimu, a non-profit after school organization for children in Kibera informal settlement
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Miranda Grant, Multimedia, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“I hope that people watch it and smile and watch it and say, yeah, let me do that. Let me get together with my crew or my family or my colleagues and take a little moment and dance and feel like that is an expression of support for the climate and the environment and then publish that. The important thing is sharing that globally so that world leaders and decision makers, policy makers, business leaders cannot ignore how much momentum there is behind this positive change.”
23. Wide shot, children from Project Elimu, a non-profit after school organization for children in Kibera informal settlement
RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
24. SOUNDBITE (English) António Guterres, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“This World Environment Day, warning signals are everywhere. The past 11 years have been the 11 hottest on record, and the damage goes far beyond rising temperatures. From polluted air to degraded land, collapsing ecosystems and vanishing biodiversity, harming health, destroying homes and deepening hunger. The world is heading for a temporary overshoot above 1.5°C. Every fraction of a degree brings greater harm, especially to the most vulnerable. Our task is to make that overshoot as small, as short and as safe as possible, and rapidly bring temperatures back down.”
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
25. Various shots, dancing children from Oyana School
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin Wekesa, Rugby Player, Kenyan National Team:
“The planet is sending a signal too hot to ignore. Temperatures are rising every day because of how we live.”
RECENT, BRAZIL
27. Various shots, Uma Sereia na Estrada dancing in a mermaid costume
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“We can limit this overshoot. We can support adaptation and vulnerable nations and return to below 1.5°C degrees. The solutions are right here: booming clean energy and mobility, green buildings, rapid cuts in methane emissions, more resilient food systems, and so much more.”
RECENT, THAILAND
29. Med shot, Narathip Cheami
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
30. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“On this World Environment Day, I call on everyone to act with urgency and determination and to help build a cooler, safer and healthier future for all.”
RECENT
31, Wide shot, dancing children Trishikas Littleworld
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“We can limit this overshoot. We can support adaptation and vulnerable nations and return to below 1.5°C degrees. The solutions are right here: booming clean energy and mobility, green buildings, rapid cuts in methane emissions, more resilient food systems, and so much more. On this World Environment Day, I call on everyone to act with urgency and determination and to help build a cooler, safer and healthier future for all.”
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
33. SOUNDBITE (English) Inger Andersen, Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP):
“So, here's the question. How low can we go? Because we have to go low. We have to make sure that if we bypass 1.5, we quickly bring it back down again. But we can do it. We have all the solutions. And we know that when we do the right thing, it drives jobs, it drives growth, it improves our health, and it creates greater resilience for climate. So, this World Environment Day. How low can we go?”
RECENT, UNITED STATES
34. Various shots, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador, Actress and Model Amber Valletta with family
RECENT, NAIROBI, KENYA
35. Various shots, Kevin Wekesa and members of the Kenyan National Rugby Team
36. Various shots, Cheza Cheza Dance Foundation
37. SOUNDBITE (English) Rugby Player, Kenyan National Team:
“That’s why you are dancing; to demand for action. Now, for climate.”
RECENT, THAILAND
38. Wide shot, dancer Lay
RECENT
Wide shot, UNEP Goodwill Ambassador Antoinette Taus dancing
As the world marks World Environment Day 2026, people around the globe are taking part in the #NowForClimate movement, a campaign that uses dance and movement to highlight the urgency of climate action and the growing momentum behind climate solutions.
The limbo dance is reimagined where participants are challenged with the question, "How low can we go?"- a reference to the need to bring global temperatures down and avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Through limbo events, dance performances and social media videos, people from all walks of life are demonstrating support for faster climate action.
This package combines celebrity messages, expert perspectives and user-generated videos from around the world. Together, they highlight the progress already being made, from the rapid growth of renewable energy to other proven climate solutions, while underscoring the need to accelerate action to secure a safer future for all
