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ABOUT EXTREME HANGOUT
Extreme Hangout is a global climate action platform designed to inspire and empower the next generation of changemakers. We bring together and unite thought leaders and changemakers, connect young people, creators, activists, scientists, businesses, and policymakers through events, talks, and media storytelling—all centred-on sharing the best sustainability practices and highlight actionable solutions to boost knowledge, connections and collaborations that are all centered on building solutions to the climate crisis.
Inspired by a love of adventure sports, the natural world, and our passion to protect the planet, Amber Nuttall and Alistair Gosling supported by Extreme International established The Extreme Hangout in 2020. Since launching at COP26 in Glasgow, where we transformed a docked ferry into the official Extreme Hangout COP26 hub, we’ve grown into a movement that gives underrepresented voices at the table during the world’s most important climate negotiations.
OUR MISSION
To make climate action accessible, inclusive, and positive. We believe change happens when people feel inspired, connected, and empowered to act—whether through lifestyle choices, innovation, or activism.
WHAT WE DO
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Global Events: We host platforms at UN Climate COPs and other international summits, creating spaces where people meet and listen to world leaders, influencers, and experts.
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Local Pop-Up Events: We deliver grassroots activation events that bring climate conversations into communities.
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Sustainability Storytelling: Through social-first video, we share positive stories of climate action with an audience of over 20 million followers across social media.
OUR IMPACT (SO FAR)
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30+ events across 4 continents
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Delivered 4 Major Events at COP events to data COP 26 Glasgow, Cop 27 Egypt, COP28 Dubai, COP 29 Baku.
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2,000+ speakers including Bear Grylls, Lily Cole, Prime Ministers, Presidents and global youth leaders
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20M+ social followers, reaching millions with climate-positive storytelling
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Trusted partnerships with the UN, leading NGOs, and sustainability-focused brands
ANNUAL PROGRAMME TO DRIVE ACTION
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MAJOR ANNUAL EVENT SERIES
Run at events like COP, London Climate week, New York Climate week - open to anyone, live-streamed globally.
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LOCAL ACTION SERIES
Run year round in partnership with and by local climate activists, change makers, Ted X event organisers, local mayors and tourism offices worldwide.
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MEDIA PLATFORM
Curating and producing positive sustainability video stories that we share with our 20M social media followers each day, delivering 50M+ video views per month.
With The Extreme Hangout, we want to engage and inspire young people, harness the power of nature, sport, music, art, creativity, and work collaboratively with amazing partners to showcase and shine a light on anyone driving positive change for humanity and the world at large.
LOOKING AHEAD
The EXTREME Hangout will run again at COP30 in Brazil.
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At COP30 in Belém, Brazil, Extreme Hangout will expand its platform further, creating even bigger opportunities for underrepresented voices to influence policy, inspire peers, and shape solutions. As in previous years, it will be open to all, to attend our dynamic and inspirational change maker podcasts, talks and panels, networking, and to use as their base to re-charge, recoup and hangout.
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Together, we are building a movement where climate hope outweighs climate fear. For more information, please see https://www.extremehangout.org/cop30
Frequently asked questions
THE BACKSTORY
Inspired by a love of adventure sports, the natural world, and our passion to protect the planet, Amber Nuttall and Alistair Gosling supported by EXTREME International established The Extreme Hangout in 2020.
We made a spectacular debut at COP26 in Glasgow, quickly establishing ourselves as a prominent fringe event. Located aboard a repurposed ferry on the River Clyde, near the main proceedings, we hosted an extensive 11-day youth conference and hub.
Our impressive line-up featured 200 renowned speakers, including the likes of Bear Grylls and Lily Cole, attracting 6,000 enthusiastic visitors and generating an astounding 5 million video impressions.
We delivered alongside The New York Times at COP27 in Egypt and then, in recognition of our growing movement and community, the United Nations organising committee invited us to join them and deliver Extreme Hangout in the official COP28 Green Zone at Expo City, Dubai in 2023 where we had 20,000 visitors, 550 speakers join us for ten days of inspiring talks, experiences, and hangout with us.
In 2023 we also launched our Extreme Hangout local action series which are run in partnership with and by local climate actionists, Ted X event organisers, local mayors and tourism offices all over the world and there have been 17 Extreme Hangout locals with over 30 in the pipeline.
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Panel discussion
Fan experiential zones
Evening entertainment
Networking & idea sharing
ANNUAL PARTNERS
COP Partners & Collaborators
Programme Partners
Streaming and Media Partners
WHAT IS COP?
For the past 27 years the United Nations has brought together almost every country on earth for global climate summits, called COPs (Conference of the Parties). In the time since the first ever COP in Berlin in 1995, climate change has transformed from being a fringe issue to a global crisis.
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The 29th COP will be hosted by Azerbaijan in Baku. With an expected attendance of over 80,000 delegates, including 140 heads of state and government and over 5000 media professionals, COP29 carries high expectations to drive vital and urgent action for the future of our planet.
ABOUT EXTREME INTERNATIONAL
EXTREME is a world-leading, purpose-driven adventure brand whose vision is to drive positive change through extreme and adventure sports. With one of the largest and most influential online adventure travel communities our comprehensive, sustainable approach covers a spectrum of services: Across adventure tourism we deliver strategy, design, development, and operation of adventurous tourism destinations, camps, boutique hotels, parks and resorts. Moreover, our social media publishing studio excels in crafting and delivering compelling stories that forge unprecedented connections between your brand and consumers alongside our events team who specialize in orchestrating awe-inspiring events that not only captivate but also champion sustainability and adventure.
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We operate around three guiding pillars: people, planet, and place. Headquartered in London with bases in Europe and the Middle East, we serve our clients through our passionate and pioneering international team. As founders of The Extreme Sports Channel, operating for over 25 years, EXTREME International is the go-to company for tourism boards and destination developers to global brands and leading marketing agencies who are looking for a differentiated, fresh, and innovative approach to destination development and tourism marketing.
Designing, developing and operating adventure sports and leisure destinations.
Producing inspirational and entertaining lifestyle events, activations and experiences.
With 20 million fans and over 200m views monthly, we provide social media management advertising & sponsorship solutions for clients.
Delivering real business results for our clients through marketing campaigns that harness the power of social, ambassadors and events.
In all our activities, we strive to promote sports participation, healthy lifestyles, job creation, infrastructure investment and tourism while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability and the environment. As part of our sustainability efforts, we have launched The Extreme Hangout, a global impact platform, and aligned with five key United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. We have also joined Planet Mark to measure our impact, committed to 1% For The Planet to give back and are a lead member of the UN’s Sports for Climate Action initiative to raise awareness.
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We believe in the future of extreme and adventure sports experiences, events and entertainment and embrace our community for motivating us every day to take EXTREME to the next level.