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Training Young Climate Leaders of Carnide (Lisbon, Portugal)
The project aims to prepare the young generation for the challenges of climate change, therefore the project will deliver training courses for young people.
Challenge addressed
- Natural building materials and energy efficiency, including refurbishment of existing, historic buildings.
- Energy communities to ensure comfort living at affordable prices through multi-disciplinary retrofitting teams.
Solution proposed, focus area
The main objective of the project is to prepare the current generartion of young people for the challenges posed by climate change and enable them to face them through training for the green job market., fostering energetic transition, “climate emergency” and the challenges of green, social, inclusive and smart growth.
Target Groups
The target group of the activities were young people, students
Main activities / milestones
The courses are aimed at people who want to work on climate change or susutainable development. The course will address the following topics: self-knowledge as a path to purpose, leadership and future of work, climate change science, economics of Climate Change, Climate Change Policy, land and forest use change, energy transition, transport and urban mobility, personal action to mitigate Climate Change.
Partnership
YCL Youth Climate Leaders
Outcomes
The participating young people became prepared to better understand the impacts of climate change on their lives and presented them with ways to think of solutions to this crisis at the same time. The activity led to 4 interesting and implementable projects created by the participants:
- Cycle Path Project (Transportation and Urban Mobility).
- Energy Efficiency in Schools
- Waste generation and management
- Healthy and Sustainable Food
The innovative ideas created are offered to the Lisboa Carnide Parish Council. The Lisboa Carnide Parish Council was interested in taking some of the ideas forward and open to further dialogues on how to implement the youngsters’ projects created during this project; and also to create projects/ more initiatives in cooperation. For future it is intended to deepen the partnership with the Parish Council of Carnide and with other Parish Councils with which the project partners already have a cooperation agreement, such as Santa Cruz, in Madeira Island. In addition, the project team intend to approach other parishes, to extend the reach of the project throughout the Portuguese territory.
For more information visit: https://www.youthclimateleaders.org/
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