• The Project
  • Climate Advocates
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  • 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.

 


Omid Tayyeba PDF Print E-mail

Omid is a 32-year-old graduate student and presently involved in a CDM project in Georgia through his master’s thesis work at SWECO Environment. Prior to continuing his education in Sweden, he worked at a chemical production company in Iran for more than four years where he touched the magnitude of the adverse impact of industrial development on nature, particularly in developing countries. He sees economic incentive programs such as CDM, JI and the European emission trading scheme as having great potential for fighting climate change. In addition to this, in the current economic climate, when many politicians might not consider climate change combat as one of the highest priorities, he believes that raising environmental awareness among people, especially teens, could be one of the most achievable and effective measures against climate change.

 
 
 
Tapping into the power of a well told tale, the Climate Advocates devised a teaching pack accompanying the classic Dr. Seuss story, The Lorax, to educate children aged between seven and nine of the issues around sustainability, consumption of goods and the future of the planet.