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Bringing Fun Back into
Education
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Objective: lowering the barriers to youth engagement in climate policy
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Creating easy and fun-to-read guides to climate & environmental policy
documents e.g Peeling Back the COP
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Putting climate & environmental policy into the context of young people
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Creating interest in young people to learn & contribute to climate policy
governance
Leveraging on technology &
youth movements
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Youth movements have become a formidable means of engagement for
young people
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Communications tools are accessible to scores of young people, e.g social
media, mailing lists & blogs
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Youth networks are the preferred way for youth in the climate movement
to consolidate their efforts
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We have leveraged on them to crowd source services, such as translation
& distribution of the Peeling Back the COP Booklet
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Using engaging blog posts and social media to engage more young people
in climate policy
Success Stories
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The COP PocketBook is being used to prepare young people in African
Youth Initiative on Climate Change – Kenya for climate policy
engagement, especially with regards to National Climate Change
Response Strategy, Kenya Climate Change Action Plan, Climate Change
Bill & contributing to Kenya’s position paper for UNFCCC COP19
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Challenge to Change organization in Vietnam is using COP PocketBook
to teach youth on need for engaging in climate policy
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A climate journalist in DR Congo, working for Info-Environment, is
teaching young people how to effectively engage in climate &
environmental governance at the grassroots
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More translations in native and local languages being worked on
currently, e.g Lingala in DR Congo & Nahuati in Mexico
What Next?
 A Youth Guide to the Green Economy is being worked on currently
 Tracking climate policies in Kenya from the county level to the
international level in real-time
 Getting more young people to research & write about climate change
issues and policies, mostly through blog posts and articles
 Creating and developing incentivised volunteering in order to
encourage more young people to get involved with climate change
education
Thank You!!
 Wish to engage? Drop us an email at
[email protected]
 Looking forward to hearing from you!!