• 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.

 


Anna KUMPULAINEN PDF Print E-mail

Anna_Kumpulainen.jpgHas an M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in industrial engineering and management and past experience in both consulting and scientific research. Anna works for Finnish consulting company Gaia Consulting as a project manager and is an expert in projects related to risk management, valuation of environmental issues, and energy and climate issues – carbon footprint calculations are her speciality. Anna wants to invest her own time in fighting against climate change and her wish is to make sustainable choices easily available and attractive to the majority.
 
 
 
Despite the level of awareness about climate issues being relatively high in Finland, the Climate Advocates felt that often the messages were quite pessimistic, making many people feel unable to act. They decided to focus their efforts on giving people straightforward, practical and positive advice about things such as how to warm their houses, what products to buy and what to eat.