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Czech Climate Advocates initiate the establishment of the Czech Green Building Council |
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Wednesday, 30 September 2009 14:51 |
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 Although Challenge Europe is now in its second year, some climate advocates from the first year are still very active. A great example of how two advocates have taken further action is in the Czech Republic, where Petr Kotek and Petr Vogel have established the Czech Green Building Council.
Why this initiative?
The advocates were working on the Green Building topic during the first year of Challenge Europe and their work resulted in two expert seminars. The contacts they made during this period have helped them to realise their dream, which has been to do something more and create something new – and so the Czech Green Building Council was born. It is a non-governmental organisation aiming to motivate the market to transform the way buildings and communities are designed, built, refurbished and operated to promote an environmentally and socially responsible, healthy, and prosperous built environment that improves the quality of life. The Council was established by 13 Czech companies and is open to all who would like to do more in the area of green buildings.
The Czech Green Building Council aims to cooperate with World Green Building Council network, a union of national councils whose mission is to accelerate the transformation of the built environment towards sustainability. For the moment, it has 14 members all around the world. All national councils try to raise awareness of the urgent need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions because buildings and communities are responsible for over 40 per cent of these emissions. And this is the mission of the newly-established Czech Green Building Council as well. |
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Thursday, 24 September 2009 15:54 |
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At the International Climate Camp in Slovenia 30 Climate Advocates from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Slovenia and Turkey formulated “Jezersko Principles for Climate Action” they would like to see to be addressed at the COP 15 and by their national governments. Download PDF or Powerpoint presentation or view online
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Climate Advocates based in Norway challenge the status quo |
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Monday, 21 September 2009 15:52 |
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Climate Advocates look for new business models for sustainability.
Two Climate Advocates based in Norway Dragos Talvescu and Dina Hestad entered centre stage at the international, two-day Oslo Sustainability Summit 2009. The Summit was held August 31 – September 1, 2009.
Dragos and Dina challenged the established business community to develop new, innovative, environmentally and socially sustainable business models. They also challenged decision-makers all over the world by pushing for a reinvention of the United Nations so as to be better equipped to fight climate change and to promote global development and equality.
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Swedish climate advocates joins MTV & European Commission campaign |
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Thursday, 17 September 2009 12:42 |
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Two of the Swedish Climate Advocates recently participated in “Play to stop – Europe for Climate” as part of MTV and the European Commission’s climate campaign in Stockholm. Besides attending a MOBY concert they got an opportunity to send a direct message to our European leaders concerning the upcoming COP 15 negotiations in Copenhagen in December. See what Swedish climate advocates Paul Fenton and Ephraim Ugboh had to say. |
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