Bangladesh Climate Justice Project
by Journey for Climate Justice
This project was run by JCJ over March/April 2013 in Bangladesh to empower and inspire the local grass-roots community to respond to the challenges of climate change. Bangladesh is one of the most vulnerable nations in the world to a changing climate, despite having amongst the lowest per-person carbon footprint on the planet, and having little capacity to adapt and cope.
JCJ-volunteer Pat Kirkby worked tirelessly in Dhaka to provide free training activities on climate change, sustainability and environmental leadership, for youth, NGOs, professionals and grass-roots communities. Amongst these activities were a JCJ ‘Climate Solutions Conference’, numerous youth environmental leadership workshops, and Bangladesh’s biggest ever Earth Hour event, which brought together hundreds of bike riders and concerned climate activists. These events generated mass media attention and overwhelming local support. JCJ also selected 3 aspiring youth climate activists to visit climatically vulnerable areas of rural Bangladesh, where the team worked with local grass-roots organisations to develop initiatives that are driving long-lasting change in these climatically-devastated poor rural villagers.
Through the strong networks that JCJ has built in Bangladesh, we continue to foster and support ongoing environmental initiatives run by local youth. JCJ also sits in an advisory role to Bangladesh’s two preliminary youth climate organisations, the Bangladesh Youth Movement for Climate (BYMC) and the BYEI (Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative).
Photos of the project can be found on JCJ's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441243642619569.1073741828.137688396308430&
Join the project facebook page to stay tuned: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167092053439700/?fref=ts
JCJ-volunteer Pat Kirkby worked tirelessly in Dhaka to provide free training activities on climate change, sustainability and environmental leadership, for youth, NGOs, professionals and grass-roots communities. Amongst these activities were a JCJ ‘Climate Solutions Conference’, numerous youth environmental leadership workshops, and Bangladesh’s biggest ever Earth Hour event, which brought together hundreds of bike riders and concerned climate activists. These events generated mass media attention and overwhelming local support. JCJ also selected 3 aspiring youth climate activists to visit climatically vulnerable areas of rural Bangladesh, where the team worked with local grass-roots organisations to develop initiatives that are driving long-lasting change in these climatically-devastated poor rural villagers.
Through the strong networks that JCJ has built in Bangladesh, we continue to foster and support ongoing environmental initiatives run by local youth. JCJ also sits in an advisory role to Bangladesh’s two preliminary youth climate organisations, the Bangladesh Youth Movement for Climate (BYMC) and the BYEI (Bangladesh Youth Environmental Initiative).
Photos of the project can be found on JCJ's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.441243642619569.1073741828.137688396308430&
Join the project facebook page to stay tuned: https://www.facebook.com/groups/167092053439700/?fref=ts