🇳🇱Netherlands

Dutch company using curtains of bubbles to stop plastic in rivers and canals without blocking boats or wildlife.

For more than four decades this Dutch foundation has fought for a cleaner, wilder North Sea — and is now turning offshore wind farms into oyster reefs.

A national Dutch foundation gets residents and city councils competing to pry up paving tiles from front gardens and streets and replace them with plants.

IVN plants tennis-court-sized Tiny Forests on Dutch schoolyards and street corners, turning paved city plots into dense, biodiverse outdoor classrooms.

A Dutch foundation sued its own government over weak climate targets and won a landmark court order to cut emissions faster.