22 March

Today is World Water Day!!!

To learn more: World Water Day - 22 March

Article: part 2

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Virgina Panara

Climate refugees

Hi everybody! I've found a very interesting article about the climatic changes and their consequences on the populations on the March number of "Le Scienze". Unfortunately, the article is only in Italian... I'm sorry!

Virginia Panara

Here you can find an interesting article about the first conflicts climate changes conflicts in Kenya, in 2009: 

The first climate change conflicts - Drought is testing pastoralists and peace in North Kenya

 

(The Guardian, Monday 23 November 2009)

You can find much more material on these issues on the CCAPS website.

The CCAPS ( Climate Change and African Political Styability) is a research center that deals with the relationship between the growing threat of climate change and the ability of African countries to manage complex emergencies, including humanitarian disasters and violent conflict.

Training Course - Italian Second Meeting

The Italian participants met on Friday, 4^th March 2011, to attend the Second Meeting of the Local Training Course.

As in the First Meeting, we spent some time in watching the second part of BBC Documentary “Planet Earth” and some slides about the effects of climate changes on Earth.

After a short debate on the use of renewable sources and on some interventions for the mitigation adopted by local governments, every group introduced to all the participants the progress of their part of the State of the Environment.

Every group (Mobility, Waste and Energy) collected some interviews about people’s perception of climate changes in their every day lives and some information on Internet about how the local governments approach to climate changes and which kind of interventions are implemented to face the problem.

We all agreed that our State of the Environment should address two objectives:

1. it will be used to introduce to the public body the point of view of the young people about the environment and to make some proposals for public interventions to face the climate changes locally;

2. it will represent a theoretical basis for us for developing our future Local Action Plans

Talking about these two main objectives, we decided to use two communication tools: the first one is a written document, which will be used to introduce our work and proposals to the politicians; the second one is a video documentary, which will collect the common feeling of people about climate changes and will be implemented with some scenes from the COP-Y week. We’ll use the video documentary to inform people about the project and to involve other young people in the realization of our Local Action Plans.

We concluded our meeting talking about the organization of the COP-Y: everyone is invited to share his opinions and ideas about all the activities we could realize in a week (round tables, meetings with experts and politicians, free time and leisure,…).

We’d like that all the participants, also from Czech Republic and Bulgaria, share their proposals on the blog! You can find a special section called “The COP-Y” at the top of the blog: please play your part!