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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.

 


Working international partnerships PDF Print E-mail

At a networking event organised by British Council during the Nordic Climate Solutions Conference in Copenhagen in September, Fintan Keenen a Climate Advocate in Denmark, was introduced to Christina Anderskov from World Climate Community. As a result the two got together and organised an event for youngsters at the Copenhagen International School in Hellerup on 23 October. Students were treated to several lectures on the subject of climate change and were then sent out in the neighbourhood with video cameras to make films about this very important subject.

Fintan Keenan said: "The future is in the hands of our children, and we have to think about the survival of the whole planet. We created this project to give the students knowledge and because they are the best ambassadors to get the message across that we have to act now. We choose the creative angle asking them to make films that will be uploaded to the Internet, as that's the best way to spread the word, and there's nobody better at doing that than our youth."

And the youth had great fun. "We are allowed to be involved in spreading an important message by making a video which describes our actions and the consequences they are having on the environment. It is really, really important and it's great fun to go online and see our own film - and share it with friends" adds one of the students Madison. You can see the results of the young people's work at the following websites of World climate community and also here.
 

 
 
 
‘Don’t shop, swap!‘ was the idea behind the initiative which encouraged people to swap their goods rather than throw them away, re-use old products instead of buying new ones and by doing that help decrease CO2 emissions from the productionof new items.