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Sparking new action on climate change

Our Director Bruce Campbell recently spoke at a workshop organised by Connect4Climate on 'Be the Movement'. Bruce presented CCAFS climate-smart village activities. Photo: ICRAF
    Connect4Climate and the University of Warsaw co-hosted an international workshop on how to get more young people engaged in global efforts to mitigate climate change and raise awareness about its increasing dangers. This is the report back from that event.

    This is a re-post of a story originally posted on the Connect4Climate blog.

    The daylong event, which drew prominent climate change activists and scientists as well as students, was held November 20 in Warsaw, where the latest United Nations-sponsored climate change talks, COP19, took place.

    In the morning, participants broke into small brainstorming group sessions to discuss effective ways of communicating climate change, how to reach new audiences, the need for educators to include environmental messages, the importance of demonstrating that economic development is not in conflict with climate change mitigation policies, and the need for bold leadership to spark climate solutions.

    The recent tragic impact of Typhoon Haiyan on the Philippines, as well as Poland’s difficulties in diversifying its electricity generation away from coal both gave rise to animated discussions.

    Rachel Kyte, World Bank Vice President for Sustainable Development, reminded workshop participants of the impact that one individual can have by changing his or her behaviour patterns and energy consumption. “One person can make a difference. Absolutely!” she said. “[T]hat person might be the farmer who decides to plant a different type of crop, it might be you, it might be me, one person can make a difference.”

    Read the rest of this story on the Connect4Climate blog: World Bank’s Connect4Climate helps spark new action on Climate Change

    Learn more in this related post, published on The Guardian: Communicating climate change: Reaching new, broad audiences requires diverse, innovative communication strategies

    Bruce Campbell, Director at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) also participated in the Join the Movement conference, discussing our Climate Smart Village activities:

    "What is a climate-smart village? It is a community-approach to climate adaptation and mitigation. It's about new technologies, it's about climate information services, it's about local knowledge and institutions and it is about village development plans."

    View Bruce Campbell's presentation on climate-smart villages:

     

    Watch Bruce Campbell talk at the Join the Movement: