Our partners in the Slovenia are:

Umanotera, The Slovenian Foundation for Sustainable Development

Focus, Association for Sustainable Development

News

Troikas cycling to work in May saved more then 10 tons of CO2 emissions… and bicycled about 20 “Giro d'Italia” lengths: A group of climate advocates from the British Council’s Challenge Europe project recently organised a competition to get people to cycle to work every day during the month of May. Its aim was to encourage employees to consider using bicycles instead of cars to get to work and in turn reduce carbon dioxide emissions. The project was designed to emphasise the many positive effects of cycling, to both health and the environment. Read more...

 Slovenian Climate Advocates lead the Biggest Environmental Project
On April 17th 2010, a Slovene environmentalist group, Environmentalists Without Borders, is organizing the biggest volunteer-based environmental project in the history of Slovenia: Let’s Clean Slovenia in a Day! Read more...

Jezersko Principles for Climate Action: 30 young Climate Advocates from six countries, who are all engaged in the British Council’s Challenge Europe project, came together in the mountains of Slovenia to define their own top ten priorities for action on climate change. These ideas are targeted at both the forthcoming UNFCCC conference in Copenhagen and at wider global issues that affect our approach to climate change. The 10 ideas for tackling climate change were presented in the Slovenian parliament.

Commissioner Potočnik personal thoughts about issues that will be discussed in the International Climate Camp can be found on the Commissioners blog.
Interesting blog written by Barbara Kvac, a member of Slovenian negotiation group in the UNFCCC framework. She was blogging from Bonn, and will from Bangkok and Copenhagen.

Reducing the release of CO2 by recycling plastic packaging” - Round table discussion, April 22, 2009

• Questions and Answers
• Scenario for discussion
• Quotes from discussion

The Slovenian climate advocate team:

Ana KLENOVŠEK, 24, a student of Criminal Justice and Security at the University of Maribor
Blaž GASPARINI, 22, a student of Physics at the University of Trieste in Italy
Ina KUKOVIČ 27, a lawyer and entrepreneur
Iva GRUDEN, 26, a freelance photojournalist
Ivanka BRAJOVIČ, 34, a postgraduate student of Electrical engineering
Katarina TRSTENJAK, 24, a student of geography at the University of Ljubljana
Katja POZDEREC, 24, a student of International relations at the University of Ljubljana
Katja TURK ESCOBAR, 27, a publicist in the PR department of the Slovenian Tourist Board
Maja ZAKOTNIK, 26, student of English and German language at the University of Ljubljana
Maruša ROSULNIK, 25, researcher at Gormice, congress and marketing agency
Matej DOBRAVC VERBIČ, 24, a pharmacist
Nina TOME, project manager at Umanotera
Petra ČARMAN, 25, a student of the Faculty of Criminal Justice at the University of Maribor
Roman MEDVED, 24, lawyer
Sanela SINANOVIČ, 30, journalist, publicist and project organiser
Tomislav TKALEC, 25, postgraduate student of Environmental protection
Vesna GRANDO, 25, student of Biosciences, University of Ljubljana

 Click here to read the advocates' profiles

Contact

For further information about the project in Slovenia, please contact: Tina Skocaj, Project Manager, British Council Slovenia, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  Tel : +386 (0)1 300 20 42