Empowering Youth Environmental Action

by Taking IT Global

Project Report | Aug 6, 2015
Urban sustainability

By Liam O'Doherty | Director of Digital Youth Engagement Programs

App being used on a mobile device

Over the 2014-2015 program year, Global Partners Junior and TakingITGlobal collaborated to expand the program to use the Commit2Act mobile app, which allows students to discover and track their actions to reduce their impact on the planet.

Across the categories of Food, Water, Waste, Transportation, and Energy, students engaged in a friendly competition in their collaboration groups to see which clusters of classrooms could make the largest impact on the environment.

As we turn to mobilizing in advance of the COP21 climate conference in Paris this December, we have big plans to scale up action and awareness towards this important global summit. We will be supporting and collaborating with several international youth delegations to provide accreditation and collaboration opportunities across sustainability education initiatives.

Working across cultures and countries, we will leverage live stream video conferencing, national strategy sessions, collaborative curricular assignments and existing networks to link young climate organizers on the ground in Paris with schools and classrooms around the planet to accelerate the global movement for climate action.

What does it take to decarbonize our lives, our countries and the systems which make our world?

Stay tuned to find out!

Links:

Commit2Act website

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