Live on the island -EN
Schema della sezione
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ERASMUS + Live on the island
8 organizations from 8 different islands from all over the world in an ERASMUS + for the development of awareness of the environment
The premise of the project is the awareness that protecting the environment and conserving the resources of our planet represents a challenge that can no longer be avoided: today, the world is radically different choices that are different from those made in the past, far from the current production model.
As is known, islands are particularly affected by environmental degradation and climate change, due to a more fragile ecosystem and geographical barriers that often lead to conditions of particular socio-economic vulnerability. For the island communities, therefore, "sustainability" and "resilience" are essential characteristics to combat the degradation of their territory and consequently depopulation, youth emigration, and the transformation of the territories into "tourism colonies" with important social consequences and environmental.
In these contexts, we, therefore, consider the promotion of an environmental education that is configured as a continuous process of learning ways of living with a rapidly evolving nature due to climatic and economic factors to be particularly important.
Young people have a leading role in promoting different models of consumption and production: the development of their awareness of the environment and their learning of knowledge, values, attitudes and practices of sustainable development through the exchange of experiences is therefore of primary importance. Faced with this, due to important geographical and socio-economic obstacles, many young islanders enjoy limited mobility and exchange opportunities.
Consortium
- Ottovolante Sulcis (Sant’Antioco, Italy)
- Teatro Metaphora (Madeira, Portugal)
- Social Cooperative of Cyclades- Altera Vita.(Syros, Greece)
- Community Forests Pemba (Pemba, Tanzania)
- SYAH Cabo Verde (Cape Verde)
- Morobe Development Foundation (Papua New Guinea)
- CEMEA Martinique (Martinique)
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The climate crisis is having a profound impact on humanity: biodiversity loss, deforestation, water scarcity, natural disasters, pollution, species extinction and the overall degradation of Earth's ecosystems aect lives worldwide. Researchers have also found that, since the effects of climate change are so far‐reaching, they will compromise achieving most of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), such as those relating to poverty, hunger, health and well‐being, education, water and sanitation, and peace and justice (Sanson, Hoorn and Burke 2019). A recent brieng “Responding to the health risks of climate change in Europe” by Lancet Countdown and the European Environment Agency (2021) highlights that weather and climate extremes in Europe increase the spread of infectious diseases, droughts and wildres (for example, more European countries suered from wild- res in 2018 than previously recorded). Meanwhile, worldwide, the UN Refugee Agency (n.d.) estimates that due to the increasing intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, around 20 million people are forced to leave their homes and migrate each year. The 2015 Paris Agreement notes that climate change is “an urgent and potentially irreversible threat to human societies and the planet” (The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2015). It is therefore not surprising that European institutions have recognised that the well-being of our planet is dependent on ensuring both human rights and a healthy environment for future generations. 4 A healthy environment is a precondition for the preservation of life on our planet and, therefore, for the very enjoyment [...] [of] rights and liberties under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. [...][The] Council of Europe has a key role to play in mainstreaming the environmental dimension into human rights and pursu[ing] a rights-based approach to environmental protection.” Declaration by the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe.
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