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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.

 


Climate Advocates in Copenhagen, December 2009 PDF Print E-mail
 
At a networking event held during the COP15 conference, Climate Advocates met with British Council delegates from other countries working on similar projects. They are convinced that even if the conference proved to be disappointing for many NGOs and the general public the coordination and alignment experienced in their own projects wouldn’t have been as effective without this meeting in person and without the extra energy and inspiration that the venue created. Please see the outcomes of the conference here: Copenhagen Accord.
  
Mark Bennett, Green Business Officer, Dublin City Council, comments below:
 
Mark-Bennett--3.jpg“Being a climate advocate at COP 15 was important because it provided a specific topic around which to start conversations. People were interested in learning more about how the programme works and what it involves.
 
I met with many business executives at a business reception in the WWF arctic tent. It allowed me to discuss elements of accountability, transparency and legitimacy in the business response to climate change and to promote my Challenge Europe project, ‘Green new Deal’. Without going to COP15 it would be extremely difficult to get access to so many influencers in one room (tent!).”

Climate Advocates also had an opportunity to discuss their projects with different experts in climate change during COP 15 including: Lauren Sorkin, adviser with the Asian Development Bank; Katharine Watts, Climate Change specialist at WWF; Thomas Legge Program Officer Climate and Energy Program of The German Marshal Fund’s office in Washington; and Paul Allen, Centre for Alternative Technology, Wales among many others.
 
 
 
The key concern of the Turkish Climate Advocates was to make people aware that climate change is also a local issue. They wanted to dispel the myth that the effects of global warming could only be found in the North Pole and sought to make people look more closely at their local environment and realise that it is also being affected.