World Climate Corps

Climate • Community • Collaboration

International Service
We will develop a model of international service as a powerful next step beyond national service, for millions of young adults worldwide.

Global Collaboration
We will give both young people at the start of their careers and established professionals the chance to learn the critical skill of the 21st century: global collaboration.

World Climate Corps

Climate • Community • Collaboration

International Service
We will develop a model of international service as a powerful next step beyond national service, for millions of young adults worldwide.

Global Collaboration
We will give both young people at the start of their careers and established professionals the chance to learn the critical skill of the 21st century: global collaboration.

If you care deeply about stabilizing the climate, building local and global community, and becoming proficient at global collaboration:

If you are just starting your career and want to become a Fellow someday.

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If you want your business, agency or organization to someday become a Partner hosting multinational teams of Fellows.

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For centuries, young adults have been mobilized to defend and protect their nations through national military service.

Climate change, pandemics and technology have changed all that.

If one nation, during a time of severe depression and drought in the 1930’s, could launch a Civilian Conservation Corps and employ 300,000 young men per year for ten years, then surely the climate crisis today requires a global equivalent:

A climate army mobilizing young adult men and women from all nations, by the millions, to assist public, private and NGO entities worldwide that are scaling up the most effective climate solutions at hand, while also strengthening local communities.

Almost a century later, the global equivalent of those 300,000 men—if all nations gave their citizens the chance to serve and learn at similar scale—would be 20 million men and women per year.

World Climate Corps will be a large-scale prototype of such a climate army.

We have many current and recent initiatives to build upon: CorpsAfrica; European Solidarity Corps; Green Army (Australia); National Youth Service Corps (Nigeria); Peace Corps; Service Civil International; and more.

Another of those initiatives is EarthCorps, the first global conservation corps, started 30 years ago in Seattle, USA. Many former corpsmembers and staff around the world are helping to launch WCC.

WCC will engage 20,000 participants, or Fellows, in our first five years to assist thousands of organizations in scaling up the best climate solutions at hand.

Pankaj Khullar

Delhi, India

At the age of 23, I spent 6 months working in Seattle as part of a multinational team. I returned to India with a mindset and skillset that I use every day. Now, as a partner at an architectural firm in New Delhi, we are working on sustainable projects and Green Building. I am eager to involve WCC Fellows in our office to take up more Green Building projects and ensure that the norms are followed at every step.

Vanessa Ndikontar

Douala, Cameroon

My time at EarthCorps was easily the most meaningful of my life: doing restoration work in all weather conditions, meeting and connecting with people as passionate as I am, engaging with students, volunteers and other community members, and coming “home” to my wonderful host family. By the end of it, I was a different person inside and out.