Are you between 15 and 35? Because you are the climate generation, the generation that will live through the challenge of climate change, which is deepening inequalities in France and around the world. Because you are a generation of solidarity, determined to understand the causes of a climate that is getting out of control and eager to act at its level: the new "Climate Generation" programme is for you.
Conceived by the Nicolas Hulot Foundation and FORIM, this programme gives 15-35 year olds the means to become actors of solidarity and support them in the implementation of climate projects in France or abroad. Information, workshops to help structure field projects, support mechanisms to finance them... Everything is done to create the desire to act and encourage new initiatives in France and abroad. Follow the guide!
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Climate Generation: a programme to put youth into action
The objectives of the "Generation Climate" programme are to make young people aware of the challenges of climate change and the resulting inequalities, to encourage them to become actors of solidarity and to support them in the definition and implementation of projects in France and abroad. Conceived by the Foundation for Nature and Mankind and the Forum of International Solidarity Organisations Emerging from Migration (FORIM), this programme was designed to encourage citizenship and "acting together" among our multicultural youth.
It is therefore a complete path of commitment, from reflection to action in the field, which is proposed to young people aged 15 to 35. Information days on the links between climate and agriculture, waste management, deforestation, energy; exchange forums, project writing workshops, financial mechanisms, making the most of young people's contributions... numerous activities will be set up by a diversified network of relay actors, present throughout France. By supporting youth initiatives, Génération Climat hopes to encourage others to get involved in their turn.
What tools?
An educational program to answer questions such as: What are the links and impacts of climate change on agriculture, waste management, energy, deforestation?
Practical information sheets who give the first advices to build a project: How to create your association? What is a junior association? How to set up or finance a project?
A map of local actors to be informed about climate change and international solidarity or to be accompanied in your project, and contact the structure nearest to you.
How do I get involved?
Do you have a project to fight climate change and inequality? You can apply for three support schemes: Agir en France, Agir à l'international, Agir en service civique. To apply, three forms corresponding to each of the schemes are available are online on the site. Over two years, 100 initiatives in France and the South will be financed.
They have committed...
Baptiste N. and Clément P.: Committed to reducing the amount of electronic waste : Baptiste Nominé and Clément Poudret created the Atelier Soudé in Villeurbanne (Rhône) to reduce the amount of electronic waste, fight against programmed obsolescence and help users to reappropriate their objects. This shared workshop offers participants the opportunity to get involved in repairing their defective devices. The next step of the project is to propose a toolkit to set up other workshops.
Faiza Hajji: Committed to the fight against plastic pollution in Morocco : Faiza Hajji has set up a project to reuse plastic in Berkane, her hometown, to create useful objects and give work back to craftswomen in rural areas. In 10 years, more than 50,000 plastic bags have been collected. In addition to cleaning up the town, the initiative has helped to raise awareness of the problem of waste.
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