• 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.

 


Maria NUUTINEN PDF Print E-mail

Maria_Nuutinen.jpgHas a Master in Administrative Sciences from the University of Tampere, specialising in Environmental Policy and works for the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation in Helsinki on the Climate Change and Development Communication Project. “I want to speed up the change that we need to make in societies around the globe and find new ways to do it. With the work group I would like to achieve practical changes in the Finnish way of life (e.g. increase bicycling, reducing the amount of cars on the roads) as well as acceptance of using political means to increase climate equity.”

 
 
 
A fun approach is what the Finnish Climate Advocates felt their project needed to convince people to stop using all the old excuses for not cycling. They presented cycling as something cool and desirable through organising workshops and cycling brunches where the positive outcomes of cycling were stressed and excuses challenged.