Speaking 4 the Planet
is an Arts-based approach to Youth advocacy for a Sustainable world
Using the Sustainable Development Goals as their focus, S4P competitions invite students to step up and speak out about the world and our common future. S4P has been adapted for primary schools, high schools and universities.
S4P promotes the importance of having an informed voice through:
WRITING
SPEECH
PERFORMANCE
ART
IMAGES
VIDEO
S4P values evidence-based presentations and ideas that invite quirky solutions to what might appear to be intractable environmental and sustainability problems.
S4P helps students see that they are not alone in their concern for the planet and for their future. S4P events build networks of schools and young people whose passion is to create a world worth living in.
Read what people are saying about Speaking 4 the Planet.
CURRENT EVENT
UGANDA COMPETITION, 2024
St Mark’s College, Namagoma, will host the first-ever Speaking 4 the Planet competition in Uganda. The first ever in Africa!
Students will participate through their clubs.
AUSTRALIA MIDCOAST COMPETITION, 2024
Koala Safe Spaces, a S4P competition for youth and community in the MidCoast Local Government Area.
This year, MidCoast Council is hosting 3 LIVE S4P events at Northen Schools, Southern Schools and Community Event from May to June 2024.
AUSTRALIA NATIONAL COMPETITION, 2024
From the blue beaches to its red centre, Australia is blessed with diverse and unique woodlands, rainforests and bushland. It has 130 million hectares of forests – about 17% of its land area.
This year, the S4P Australia National competition asks participants to focus on the importance of their local bushland.
AUSTRALIA 3 COUNCILS COMPETITION, 2024
Climate Action Burwood Canada Bay is taking the lead in bringing this 2024 S4P competition to the high schools of Burwood, Canada Bay and Strathfield local government areas. The event will take place on Wednesday 5 June at Domremy College, Five Dock.
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Check out the RESULTS of S4P 2023 Australia – Edge of the future here! The national competition offered students around the nation an opportunity to link global and local issues and ideas. Councils from around Australia helped fund this year’s competition and support students in their LGAs to participate. The competition attracted nearly 100 entries coming from 05 different States and Territories.
Following our successful Speaking 4 the Planet event in June – “One Planet, Our Future: Consume with Care”, Drummoyne MP Stephanie di Pasqua gave a speech to the NSW Parliament entirely devoted to that event. Read more!
Shire Climate Action Network (ShireCAN) will provide a $100 prize in S4P national competition for high school students. Read more!