• The Project
  • Climate Advocates
  • Project highlights
  • News Archive
  • Project Partners

The Project

Challenge Europe was a three year project aiming to accelerate change to a low carbon future. It was active in these 18 countries
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
EstoniaEstonia		 France
Great Britain
Greece
Hungary		 LatviaLatvia
Lithuania
Nth. Ireland/Ireland
Norway		 Poland
Slovakia
Slovenia
Sweden		 Turkey
UkraineUkraine

Climate Advocates

600 young people aged 18-35 worked on climate challenges and local projects to reduce carbon use.

Project highlights

Want to see some advocates' ideas to help fight climate change?

 

News Archive

Read through the archive of news about the project activities between 2008 and 2011

 

Project Partners

Several hundred international and national experts and partners helped the Advocates to develop their ideas. You can find the list of partner organisations below.

 


Cerys Ponting

2342-British-Council-093.jpgCerys is a Researcher at Cardiff University's Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability & Society (BRASS). Her current research has stemmed from a secondment with the Future Foundation (a London based consumer think-tank); assessing "Consumer attitudes towards Climate Change" in the UK. She has also designed & delivered an undergraduate module in Greening Business, sits on a Sustainability Advisory Panel at the National Assembly for Wales and is also a "Researcher in Residence" at a school in Newport, working on their Eco-School's programme.
 
 
 
The Climate Advocates in Ireland and Northern Ireland have been working on food issues, from an awareness campaign about food growing, to creating a network of community gardens groups and encouraging communities to take collective action on climate change.