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James Levelle
Climate Change
Sustainability
Resilience
Transform sustainability storytelling with James Levelle, speaker and award-winning adventure filmmaker. James works with organisations to inspire climate action and ecological solutions, delivering impactful content for Discovery, National Geographic, and the BBC.
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Environmentalist
James Levelle is an award-winning sustainability and adventure filmmaker known for his work with Discovery, National Geographic, and the BBC. He focuses on creative, nature-based solutions to social, ecological, and climate challenges.
James's journey began in 2007 when he was sent by the Environmental Justice Foundation to document child labour in India and illegal fishing in West Africa. These experiences shaped his understanding of film's potential to drive change. He later directed the acclaimed series ‘Eco Crime Investigators’ for National Geographic, exposing the illegal trade in tiger skins and the logging industry in Southeast Asia. His adventures included filming India’s last wild tigers and endangered orangutans in Indonesia.
He gained further recognition for his daring expeditions, such as hitchhiking 6,000 miles across South America for the series ‘Free Ride’ and trekking through Alaska for ‘Gold Rush Trail’. A near-fatal encounter with a hurricane prompted him to rethink his approach to climate storytelling. This led to his project ‘Race for the Future’, where he travelled 9,000 miles from the UK to Chile without fossil fuels, documenting youth climate voices for the United Nations Climate Conference.
James has been featured in major publications and has appeared on BBC TV and radio. He has presented at prestigious events, including the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards and the Royal Foundation’s ‘Generation Earthshot Prize’. While he remains passionate about adventure, he is now focusing on local communities to foster better relationships with nature and inspire positive change.
Topics, sessions and talks
James Levelle invites audiences to explore the profound connection between adventure and humanity, blending life lessons from extreme expeditions with a deep belief in human potential. Drawing from his groundbreaking projects like Race for the Future and his daring survival stories, he shares how the adventure mindset can inspire resilience, shift paradigms, and ignite passion for change. Through compelling storytelling, he demonstrates how courage, creativity, and a positive outlook can turn the impossible into reality.
Book James Levelle to inspire your team with his thrilling adventures and powerful insights on sustainability. His unique storytelling and firsthand experiences in extreme environments will ignite passion for nature and motivate action against climate crises. Change your audience's perspective and embrace hope through his engaging, impactful presentations.
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James Levelle structures his talks around first-person expedition narratives drawn from documented projects, using footage and field experiences — such as travelling 9,000 miles from the UK to Chile without fossil fuels for Race for the Future — to ground broader arguments about climate resilience and human potential in verifiable events.
James Levelle speaks on the adventure mindset as a driver of resilience, climate storytelling, and nature-based responses to ecological and social challenges. He is an award-winning filmmaker whose credits include the National Geographic series 'Eco Crime Investigators' and 'Race for the Future', a 9,000-mile fossil-fuel-free journey from the UK to Chile documenting youth climate voices for the United Nations Climate Conference.
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