Do you have Ireland’s most climate-friendly employees?

The climate competition engages everyone in the workplace to reduce their climate footprint through skills development and team building.

Read more about why your company should join. 

What is the Climate Competition?

Global Action Plan’s Climate Competition support businesses, communities and schools in creating an inviting and empowering environment for climate action.

The Challenges enable participants to record climate friendly actions using the Ducky Challenge app, in fun topical challenges in the areas of Climate Friendly Lifestyles, Food Waste, Plastics reduction and a unique “At Work” challenge.

Our experience and data show that the small changes become small achievements, and lead to long term behavioural change – And add up to big societal changes.

The challenges specifically focus on actions and activities that we do in our day to day lives and supports creating new lasting climate positive habits. 

The challenge is run on digital devices such as smartphones, tablets or PCs.

How does the competition take place?

The climate competition is a championship to cut CO ₂ e – and every cut counts! On the Ducky Challenge digital platform, your employees record which environmentally friendly activities they do every day, such as shorter showers, reducing food waste and traveling by public transport. For each small activity, the app calculates how much CO ₂ you have saved. You also get tips on what kind of climate change you can make and what effect it has, in the app.

Throughout the championship, you can constantly follow the scores and statistics of colleagues and opponents in real time – which increases the competitive instinct and the climate effect. The person or team that has cut the most CO ₂ e when the competition ends wins.

All participating companies receive a final report with their climate savings – which can be used to profile the company on sustainability – in internal channels, social media or websites.

Anyone can sign up – whether it’s a non-profit organisation, public sector, a private company or a large company. The goal is the same: To cut climate emissions through a joint effort – to give more awareness of sustainability and create unity at work.

Registration is divided into groups of 1-50 employees, 51-100 employees and 101-400 employees. Your company can also compete with several teams in the same competition. If you have more than 400 employees, or want to register several companies, that is also possible.

Why sign up?

Participating in the climate competition gives your company a competitive advantage in terms of sustainability. The championship provides relevant expertise to make climate-friendly choices – and creates cohesion internally with the competition as a common arena for skills development and culture building.

It will give weight to success with green strategies and sustainability reporting, while at the same time strengthening the company’s external reputation.

Why use sustainability in team building and employer branding?

Surveys show that 7 out of 10 Irish people want to live more climate-friendly , without knowing how. At the same time, as much as 88% of us want to work in companies that make a positive impact on the world. The climate competition is a solution to just that, and gives the employees a professional community where they get a common and socially relevant issue to work towards.

The championship makes your company an attractive workplace from the inside and outside – with more motivated employees and sustainability rooted in the organisation. It will have positive effects for both team building internally and employer branding externally.

If you want to attract young minds, knowledge of sustainability is a decisive competitive advantage. At the same time, it will give new motivation to those who already work there.

Why should employees reduce their personal greenhouse gas emissions?

Everyone can contribute to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. With the climate competition, we want to show that each and every one of us has the opportunity and power to make climate-friendly choices – every single day. When everyone reduces their climate footprint a little, it leads to a positive impact. Action creates change, and if we want change we have to start small.

A company is the sum of all its employees. In the climate competition, we want to show that we can both together and alone make choices that are good for the climate. It gives the individual motivation to cut emissions, while the company can inspire other companies to do the same. In this way, you make a contribution to both yourself and society.

What does participation in the Climate Competition include?

Participating in the Climate Competition lifts the company, provides expertise and builds culture. Included in the package you get:

Participation and login to the Ducky challenge platform to run a Climate Competition. You also get

• Onboarding Guide on how to engage employees before and during the competition, with tips for internal and external communication,
• Design Sessions – Online kick-off and information meeting for contact persons in participating companies to help design the campaign to ensure success,
• Team leader workshop: Committed team leaders are the key to creating an engaging competition and leading the company to victory in the Climate Competition! We run the workshop for the team leaders to inspire and provide concrete tools so that their company gets the most out of the Climate Competition.
• Admin Dashboard to manage your campaign. 
• Reports that highlights statistics for the number of CO ₂ saved during the competition, which of the UN’s sustainability goals your company has been most focused on, and how much their reduction has on a national scale,
• Tips and tricks on how to sign up and what to remember.

You can also buy extra supports including

• Workshops: Give your employees a skills boost during the period you focus on climate during the Climate Competition 2023. The future in our hands holds an internal lecture for your employees to give them a boost and create commitment in the company.
• Volunteering Opportunties – Get your team out of the office during a challenge and into one of our unique GLAS community Gardens

Who organises the competition?

The climate competition is organised by Global Action Plan Ireland in collaboration with Ducky AS, Norway. 

Global Action Plan Ireland is an environmental organisation with the mission of supporting sustainable communities across Ireland. Our programmes are evidence-based and designed to help people overcome barriers to change. We provide targeted support to communities, schools and businesses, to encourage smart and effective citizen solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises.

We deliver programmes in environmental education and climate action, global citizenship, the Sustainable Development Goals and community led action. We have three main programmes that are delivered by a national team of expert facilitators: a Schools programme, a Community and Youth programme and a Business programme. We are the exclusive implementing partner for Ducky solutions in Ireland

Ducky AS are based in Norway. Ducky have worked to reduce the footprint of both employees and residents for a number of years, using world-leading climate data and technology. Their company is based on the idea and vision that everyone can contribute to lower greenhouse gas emissions – every single day.

Every year they organize the Climate Competition for companies and the National Climate Competition for school classes in Norway. We have also created the platform “People’s Footprint” which gives municipalities and county councils a tool that provides insight into and the opportunity to reduce consumption-based emissions. The world has lacked tools to raise the skills of the population, in companies and in organisations. Our Ducky platform has changed this. The partnership with Global Action Plan is key to bringing these innovations to the Irish shores.