GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—On Wednesday, a four-day workshop geared toward empowering Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM) Youth Ambassadors (CYAs) and different youth leaders to confront the worldwide problem of local weather change will get underway right here.
The Guyana-based CARICOM Secretariat stated that the “CARICOM Local weather Change and Well being Orientation and Coaching for CYAs and Youth Leaders” will carry collectively greater than 30 youth advocates and regional stakeholders.
It stated that the occasion aligns seamlessly with the Secretariat’s Local weather Change and Well being Programme (CCHP), which goals to deepen consciousness of how local weather change impacts well being and disseminate information on prevention and adaptation measures to cut back greenhouse gases.
The Pan American Well being Group (PAHO), the European Union (EU), and the Caribbean Neighborhood Discussion board (CARIFORUM) are supporting the workshop.
Deputy Programme Supervisor, Youth Growth on the CARICOM Secretariat, Michele Small-Bartley, stated the train is meant to raise youth leaders’ consciousness of the well being impacts of local weather change and improve their engagement in figuring out and implementing efficient methods to mitigate these impacts.
“The workshop will present these younger leaders with the requisite information, abilities, and instruments for figuring out and addressing local weather change-induced well being points inside their respective nations and communities.”
She stated the workshop can be supposed to increase help in creating nationwide and group initiatives geared in the direction of bolstering efforts to mitigate the antagonistic results of local weather change on well being and handle group wants.
Mitigating the consequences of local weather change within the area has already been a precedence for the CYAs underneath the CCHP.
In St Kitts-Nevis, CYAs carried out a six-month challenge during which younger individuals had been engaged in implementing family waste administration methods to cut back methane emissions and the consequences of local weather change.
In Trinidad and Tobago, “The Eco Restorers Undertaking” allowed contributors to be taught concerning the recycling course of, the way it helps mitigate the consequences of local weather change, and the best way to convert recycled merchandise into sustainable enterprise concepts.
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