'Climate Change Awareness Begins with Me\r'

'â€Å"mood compound Awareness Begins With Me” TGTAI CONCEPT PAPER Goal: To advertize youth to convey in interactional reading on globular heating system & mode agitate which may be translated into education outreach in their detail communities and/or organizations. Objectives: 1. To encourage youth from youth organizations, schools and communities to occupy/ come upon more about planetary thaw and clime variegate concepts (Think common land) and engage in elementary leafy vegetable Solutions at the individual/community level. 2.\r\nTo answer young people in understanding the state of matter initiative as it pertains to reproduction for Sustainable Development. 3. To can opportunities for experiential knowledge on the environment through with(predicate) nature appreciation, work group activities and other interactive friendship elements. 4. To assist youth in growing their critical thinking skills. Problem assignment The semipermanent alteration in global weather patterns, particularly increases in temperature and storm activity, and the potential of sea-level rise, go away have a detrimental impact on Sm all in all Island Developing States (SIDS).\r\nLike all countries of the world, Trinidad and Tobago allow for hold to play its part in diminish its snow emissions and encouraging its population to: â€Å"Think jet-propelled plane, and so Act to Impact (TGTAI). ” Additionally, there is an urgent need to address the gap between information-on-the- street and knowledge leading to action at the micro-levels in communities. In a preliminary baseline survey conducted by TGTAI’s volunteers, on conceptual knowledge of Global Warming & Climate tilt, 77% of the persons surveyed either did not know what was global warming this included misinterpretation the circumstance of ozone layer depletion for global warming.\r\nAmong this group, the youth similarly had difficulty expressing these concepts. Presentl y there is no bodied ESD initiative which provides opportunities for youth to learn through a learning environment that is more graphic, to learn introductory concepts associated with global warming and climate change, while enable them with opportunities to engage at individual level, simple energy-saving and conservation activities within their home/school units.\r\nAdditionally really little scene has been provided for youth to engage in understanding the fiber of the farming in financial backing ESD initiatives among local youth. suffer Description â€Å"Climate Change Awareness Begins With Me” is a One-Day highly interactive ESD quislingism which satisfyks to jointly engage youth in exposure to (and in some instances), concretizing their Global Warming/Climate Change knowledge. Youth get out be employed in four (3) ESD learning areas/modules: ? character and Ecosystem storage area ? Global Warming & Climate Change Commonwealth & ESD Initiatives ? immature Solutions 1. Nature and Ecosystem Appreciation Participants provide learn about overall environmental awareness by encouraging learning in a natural setting with opportunities provided to interact and learn from nature, a rail experience and interaction with wildlife elements. This preliminary intervention result hopefully help the young people to accomplish a deeper appreciation of the importance of existing ecosystems and to see themselves excessively playing a responsible affair in their conservation/protection. . Global Warming & Climate Change Participants will learn basic global warming and climate change concepts and will be able to demonstrate linkages between anthropogenic (man-made) activities and their rising/existing impact on human eudaemonia and the natural environment. 3. Commonwealth & ESD Initiatives Participants will learn the structure of the Commonwealth, to determine its benefits and to understand the existing/emerging role of the Co mmonwealth for ESD Initiatives. 4. Green Solutions\r\nParticipants will develop and be open to simple Green Solutions that they can separately carry out in their homes while transmission knowledge in various ways for others in the home/school/community to do same. Project Methodology: The Lead Youth Agencies who will engage in Pre-implementation work/activities: ? Commonwealth RYC Trinidad and Tobago. ? Junior Environmentalists of Trinidad and Tobago (JETT) and its TGTAI Volunteers. key Project Elements: ? Use of Interactive Think Green Workshops in a Natural Setting. Use of ocular Stimulation through Trail/Nature Experiences To abet Nature Appreciation. ? Provision of Problem-Solving Opportunities for Participants to Engage in Critical-thinking and Real-life Application. ? promote by Facilitators of Youth Capacity to Create and involve a Green Charter. These elements will be achieved by the following strategic partnerships: Asa Wright Nature Centre: Nature/Eco-system Apprec iation Youth Facilitators: ? Junior Environmentalists of Trinidad and Tobago (Environmental Advocacy and Green Solutions) ?\r\nCommonwealth Youth Programme (Commonwealth RYC, ESD Initiative) Environmental State Agencies: ? Environmental Management Authority (PowerPoint Presentation on Global Warming & Climate Change: Concepts and mixer Impacts) ? Forestry Division (Environmental/Wildlife Conservation Issues colligate to Climate Change and Human Impacts) ? Institute of Marine Affairs (Marine Ecosystem Challenges Related to Climate Change) ? WITT (Water Challenges Related to Climate Change)\r\nRecommended Venue which meets all project requirements: ? Asa Wright Nature Centre (East Trinidad) Alternate Locations: ? Pointe-a-Pierre Wildfowl Trust, ? La Vega Estate (Central Trinidad) ? Emperor Valley Zoo/botanic Gardens Target Group: 30 youth (aged 14-24), from the East-West Corridor (20 students;10 youth from youth organizations); Project Timeline: Project subtract date: March 18 th (pre-implementation activities) and End ascertain: April 10th 2008 (One-Day Interactive ESD Learning Experience). Expected Outcomes: . 30 Youth from the East-West Corridor opened to Global Warming & Climate Change Concepts and Related Issues. 2. 30 Youth exposed to information on the Commonwealth and its role in emerging/existing ESD initiatives for their benefit. 3. 30 Youth exposed to critical thinking skills, through experiential learning and interactivity with and among a healthy, thriving ecosystem. 4. 3000 Youth Exposed to Green Solutions. 5. Creation of a Youth-oriented Green Declaration for bring forward ratification among youth.\r\nProject Sustainability: Each Participant will also receive 100 Green Solutions which they will be encouraged to disseminate among their peers, families and communities. Participants will also have the opportunity to create and adopt a Green Declaration, which symbolizes their commitment to educate and act on in their own spheres of inf luence, their peers, families and communities on Global Warming & Climate Change towards a low carbon emission.\r\nThis will include acquiring a polish of 5,000 signatures for the Green Declaration, an indication of the young individual’s willingness to support through daily commitments, Environmental Education and environmentally-friendly activities as laid out in the Green Declaration. Evaluation & Monitoring 1. Feedback from Participants (an evaluation questionnaire). 2. Evaluation Meetings by Project Team. Bibliography: JETT TRAINING MANUAL, 2004. TGTAI BASELINE SURVEY, 2008\r\n'