Belgium
Welcome to Belgium!
Welcome to the Belgium section of the relay, which covers 296km. Along the way, we pass by historic landmarks, through countryside and cityscapes, and visit groundbreaking climate action projects. Join in and help protect the planet we run on.
Join relay runners in Belgium and celebrate climate action!
Throughout the 7,767km relay route we are visiting and celebrating some of the world’s most inspirational and groundbreaking climate action projects. Discover more about these projects below.
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Stage #188
Ostend Forest Planting, Ostend
The peri-urban forest Ostend in Belgium aims to provide a publicly accessible space for recreation, offering educational facilities for local residents and tourists.
Through the afforestation of previous agricultural land and being part of a Green Ribbon (Groen Lint) network surrounding the city core, the peri-urban green space further aims to enhance biodiversity and ecological connectivity.
The afforestation in the coastal and harbour city was planned as a buffer zone between industrial sites and residential areas.
Stage #188
Ostend Forest Planting, Ostend
The peri-urban forest Ostend in Belgium aims to provide a publicly accessible space for recreation, offering educational facilities for local residents and tourists.
Through the afforestation of previous agricultural land and being part of a Green Ribbon (Groen Lint) network surrounding the city core, the peri-urban green space further aims to enhance biodiversity and ecological connectivity.
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Stage #202
Climate disruptions, pollution, traffic jams, lack of green space, waste...
How will it still be possible to harmoniously coexist together in tomorrow’s cities?
With 750 m², BELEXPO invites young people, their teachers and their families to think about these questions in a fun and positive way. It offers an interactive experience primarily oriented towards 10-14 year olds, but also to anyone interested in these issues in the cities of today and of tomorrow. The exhibition is designed to learn while having fun. Along the visit, you will experience, feel, learn and want to take action.
Stage #202
BELEXPO
Climate disruptions, pollution, traffic jams, lack of green space, waste... How will it still be possible to harmoniously coexist together in tomorrow’s cities?
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Running Out of Time is an annual climate relay that raises awareness, inspires action and celebrates great climate campaigns, projects and events across Britain.
The 2024 Relay launches 6th June at Ben Nevis before undertaking an extraordinary 2,436km journey through 50 cities and towns to Big Ben in Parliament Square, London on July 4th. Comprising 210 stages - and 80+ visits to climate & nature projects, sporting bodies & venues, schools, events and iconic locations - its set to be the most spectacular Climate Relay yet.
It features famous sporting venues; stunning natural sites, schools, universities, community projects, music, fashion and climate events. And a host of different and imaginative ways to move the baton which will be run, walked, cycled, swum, surfed, paddled, skied, para-glided and wake boarded along the way!
It should be fun, inspirational, and epic and we’d love you to join us! Please sign up now and help unite people, climate and nature!
The relay starts at Lochaber High School, Fort William, on Thursday 6th June and will finish at Big Ben on Thursday 4th July.
You must be over the age of 18 to sign-up to our relay and be able maintain an average pace of 7 minutes per kilometre for the duration of a stage.
If you are under the age of 18 and would like to run a stage, then please ask your parent/legal guardian to contact us at [email protected] and we will see if this can be accommodated.
We want the Relay to champion climate action and nature, to celebrate the fantastic work that’s already being done, to raise awareness, change minds and inspire action, and to gently but firmly keep the pressure on our governments, our employers, our places of learning and ourselves to take collective action.
We want it to be an event that links and unites, that demonstrates the support that exists for change, and that provides our partners with a platform to help achieve their goals and objectives.
We do this because we believe in a future that not only avoids the most disastrous impacts of climate change and biodiversity loss - indescribably important though that is - but that also takes us to a better place. One with sustainable, affordable energy, with clean air and clean water, with food for all, and a natural world that can be enjoyed by future generations.
We know we are only a tiny part of a global community that shares this vision but relays are what we do and we are determined to play our part.
National partner
GoodPlanet Belgium
GoodPlanet inspires and encourages all generations to live sustainably. For a healthy planet, for all, for today and tomorrow. For a GoodPlanet.
Through our projects, campaigns and events, we spread our knowledge and plant seeds of change. We stimulate, materialize and realize ideas that make sustainable development real and tangible. All while always keeping a positive and hopeful attitude. For GoodPlanet, education plays an essential role in the transition to a more sustainable society. This is why we have been focusing for more than 20 years on children and young people. We are obviously convinced that everyone, thanks to small or large gestures, can make a difference...