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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.

 


Two CE Projects launch in the UK PDF Print E-mail
In the last few days, two UK advocate teams have launched their final products. Phoenix Group have developed a course to engage people in the climate change debate. They will be running a pilot with British Council staff (in London), starting next month. It will be an experiential and discussion based course that it is hoped will help to change perceptions, ideas and ultimately behaviour. And although primarily aimed at staff who are disengaged with the climate change debate, it hopes to encourage people with a wide range of different views on the subject to attend.  
The course consists of six sessions and will take place over a period of six weeks (starting on 25 February) and the group are hoping to sign up 16 participants. Jane Burston, one of the members of the team said, “It’s a fun, participant led set of interactive sessions covering all sorts of issues in a slightly unconventional way. It’s also a great opportunity to discuss and debate these issues with colleagues.” Following on from this, the group will hope to get other organisations on board and run similar courses with their staff.
 
Also this week, the Charge of the Light Brigade web-based campaign went live (lightbrigade.org.uk). It hopes to name and call to account businesses that leave unneccesary lights on in their buildings overnight, wasting energy and money and adding to the problem of light pollution.
 
The project team hopes that the campaign will help companies think twice about leaving the lights on and restore the enthusiasm for energy saving measures in the home. “Individuals often feel that their personal actions to reduce carbon emissions are worthless when they see others around them wasting energy,” say the group’s volunteer team. “To tackle climate change we need to try to help people to feel empowered – to feel that their actions can make a difference.”  
People in and around the city of Manchester are invited to take photographs of office buildings and commercial properties with their lights on after closing time and upload them to the website. The Light Brigade team will contact all the businesses highlighted by uploaders and publish any repsonses they receive from the companies online.
 
 
 
Project Better Place developed from the realisation that vehicle emissions accounted for a growing portion of the world’s carbon footprint and the changing climate and diminishing supplies of fossil fuels required a major shift to low emission vehicles.