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Climate Action
The document outlines climate action initiatives, focusing on Palau's pioneering ban on specific environmental hazards. It emphasizes the importance of forest protection, suggesting methods for individuals and communities to contribute to global climate efforts. Successful campaigns like connect4climate and WWF's 'Your Plastic Diet' illustrate innovative approaches to engage and mobilize public awareness and action against climate change.
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Climate Action
- 1. Climate Action Ms. LenekaRhoden, MPhil Candidate The University of West Indies, Mona
- 2. Case Study: Palau- Actionsto Save an Island (Climate Change)
- 4. Palau was the firstcountry to ban? a) Plastics b) Sunscreen c) Sugar Drinks d) Deforestation
- 5. Climate Action: It containsa transparency framework to build trust and confidence. It serves as an important tool in mobilizing finance, technological support and capacity building for developing countries. It will also help to scale up global efforts to address and minimize loss and damage from climate change.
- 6. LEVELS OF CLIMATEACTION Individual Collective Global
- 7. Tropical Forest Protectionand Restoration
- 8. OVERVIEW: There are manyreasons to protect and restore forests, not least of all because they sequester carbon. Project Drawdown estimates that protecting currently degraded land and allowing natural growth of tropical forests to occur on 161-231 million hectares would sequester 54.5 to 85.1 gigatons of carbon dioxide by 2050.
- 9. Individual: • Choose RainforestAlliance Certified products, for those essentials you can’t buy locally, such as coffee, bananas, tea, and chocolate. • Products bearing green frog seal are sourced from farms that use responsible methods to maximize yield on existing cropland.
- 10. Collective: • You canamplify your individual impact by supporting our work to train farming and forest communities in sustainable land management, agroforestry, and reforestation.
- 11. Global: • Support Indigenousand local land rights around the world. Not only is this the right thing to do, it is better for climate: Numerous studies show that Indigenous people are the most effective forest guardians, and we need their leadership now more than ever.
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- 13. Successful Climate Campaigns andLessons:
- 14. Connect4Climate • Very rarelydo organisations hand over creative control to students from around the world, but Connect4Climate did just that with its iChange competition. In a blog for the network, programme manager Lucia Grenna wrote: “When made aware, students are able to articulate and amplify climate change messages...we set out to harness their peer power and facilitate students' ability to promote action, offer solutions, and inspire real change.”
- 15. Greenpeace and TckTckTck •Reforming policy is crucial to stopping climate change, so Greenpeace and TckTckTck teamed up in 2009, they had their eyes firmly set on leaders attending the COP 15 conference in Copenhagen. The billboard campaign featured the likes of Barack Obama and Angela Merkel as imagined in 2020. TckTckTck's executive director Kelly Rigg told us: “I thought these ads were very powerful because they held individual leaders personally responsible for their actions. They offered an opportunity for leaders to choose a more positive future by acting in the present.”
- 16. Your Plastic Diet •The WWF launched a campaign that uses plastic household objects to highlight the amount of plastic people are ingesting. • The campaign, created by Grey, was based on research by the WWF that found people were consuming about 2,000 small pieces of plastic every week – the equivalent to five grams a week, 21 grams a month. According to the WWF, five grams of plastic is the equivalent weight of a credit card. • A website, www.yourplasticdiet.com, was also been set up to allow people to take a test based on their individual diet and use the study findings to determine their likely personal weekly plastic intake.
- 17. THANK YOU! Ms. LenekaRhoden lenekarhoden@gmail.com