• The Project
  • Climate Advocates
  • Project highlights
  • 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.

 


Salih Emre Uraz

URAZ.jpgMA student in Economics at Koç University, İstanbul. Prior to his graduate life, he was an undergraduate student at Boğaziçi University and during his undergraduate years he started to build an academic interest on environmental issues. In 2006, he wrote an awarded paper on the interaction of multinational corporations and environment for an international student conference at University of Economics at Izmir, Turkey. In 2008, he was assisted to a project carried out by Boğaziçi University Economics department on household CO2 budget analysis and after this project he decided to work more on climate change issues. He believes that every single agent at every level in earth should be acting environmentally responsible to mitigate all the drawbacks of human induced climate change. Emre seeks to raise public awareness through “Climate Advocate” project and to establish contacts with various experts on climate change. Apart from his academic interests, Emre has been singing as a tenor in a Boğaziçi University Classical Music Choir for six years and enjoys reading literature.

 
 
 
This project saw the Climate Advocates from the two countries working together successfully to promote the need to reduce carbon emissions and to highlight the fact that climate change crosses borders and in order to tackle it, people need to work together.