Miss Earth

Carousel Productions launched the first Miss Earth in 2001 as an international environmental event with the mission of channeling the beauty pageant entertainment industry as an effective tool to promote the environmental preservation.

The pageant has tie-ins with Philippine government agencies, such as the Philippine Department of Tourism (DoT), the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), and the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA), as well as international environmental groups such as the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the American Global Release, to further its environmental advocacy. The delegates also take part in tree planting ceremonies, environmental and cultural immersion programs, sponsor visits and tours.

In October 2001, Miss Earth adopted the slogan « Beauties For a Cause », but it was in 2003 that the first « beauty for a cause » prize was awarded. In 2004, the Miss Earth Foundation was created to further the pageant’s causes and to work with local and international groups and non-governmental organizations that are actively involved in conservation and improvement of the environment. The Miss Earth Foundation campaign focuses on educating young people in environmental awareness.Its major project, “I Love Planet Earth School Tour », teaches and distributes educational aids for school children. The Miss Earth pageant has grown over the years, with more countries participating each year. The number of national Miss Earth pageants has grown on every continent as well.

In 2006 the Miss Earth pageant started to co-host the United Nations Environment Programme’s Champions of the Earth, annual international environment awards established in 2005 by the United Nations to recognize outstanding environmental achievers and leaders at a policy level.

In 2006, the host country Chile failed to meet the requirements of the host committee; the pageant was moved back to the Philippines. Since it began, the pageant has mostly been held in the Philippines, either in October or November, and televised nationwide via ABS-CBN (except in 2018 when GMA Network broadcast it) and Studio 23 (until it was shut down in 2014) with international delayed telecasts in more than 80 countries via Star World (now Fox Life and The Filipino Channel.