Inspired by our love of extreme and adventure sports and our passion to protect the planet.

EXTREME established The Extreme Hangout in 2021 as a sustainability events impact platform to give young people a voice, popularise the climate movement and drive environmental action. Young and other underrepresented communities want a seat at the table and EXTREME made it its mission to deliver a stage where they could share their concerns and opinions, learn and be inspired.

Launched at COP26 in Glasgow, The Extreme Hangout became a leading fringe event where we took over a repurposed ferry on the River Clyde, created a space for anyone to come hangout, recharge and experience 11 days of inspiring story-led 'TedX' style talks, panel discussions, movie screenings and evening entertainment. Over 6000 people came to hear and be motivated by more than 200 incredible speakers. Please check out The Extreme Hangout at COP26 Glasgow video here.

We then ran again at COP27 in Egypt where The Extreme Hangout represented a coming together and celebration of all those with a shared passion for the healthy recovery of our natural world. We set up on the shores of the Red Sea, Sharm El Sheikh, co-located with the New York Times and created an authentic open air Bedouin village overlooking the reef and operated for 4 wonderful days and evenings. “The most beautiful, engaging event and maybe the coolest venue at COP27”  Ivan Duque Marquez, Former President of Colombia. Please check out The Extreme Hangout at COP27 Egypt video here.

In Dubai and Baku, we continued and ran 10 days for both COP 28 and COP 29, we were included as part of the green zone and continue to scale or impact and engagement with incredible speakers and wonderful, highly engaged attendees.

The Extreme Hangout Locals initiative- hosted locally, delivering one-to-two-day climate action events anywhere in the world. Using a similar model to Ted-X we partner with passionate change-makers from all over the world to deliver events in collaboration with regional organisations, influencers, activists, pioneers, innovators, cities, and tourism boards. For more information please see https://www.extremehangout.org/host-a-hangout

To date we have had over 2000 incredible speakers (62% female) from Lily Cole and Bear Grylls to Paul Polman and the Prime Minister of the Bahamas join us, welcomed over 40,000 visitors and achieved over 100m video views.

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ANNUAL PROGRAMME TO DRIVE ACTION

Anchor event at COP every year, open to all, live streamed globally

Locally organised, global event series, rolling out to 50 locations worldwide

Media platform, live broadcasts, social, & podcasts driving year round engagement

With The Extreme Hangout, we want to engage and inspire young people, harness the power of sport, work collaboratively with amazing partners who are thinking outside the box, showcase and shine a light on anyone driving positive change for humanity and the world at large.

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Panel discussion

Fan experiential zones

High-profile speakers

Evening entertainment

Live broadcast

Networking & idea sharing

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.