Project No: 2021-2-TR01-KA154-YOU-000039243
Programme: Erasmus+ Programme Key Action 1 Youth Exchanges Projects
Duration: 24 Months (31 May 2022 – 30 May 2024)
Turkey is highly vulnerable to climate change. As part of the southern belt of Mediterranean Europe, the country is already facing an observed warming trend in temperatures and a decreasing trend in precipitation. The results of climate change will also seriously affect land use and land cover of the basins.
Lithuania’s environmental problems include air pollution, water pollution, and the threat of nuclear contamination. The cement industry produces 299,000 metric tons of airborne pollutants per year. In 1996, industrial carbon dioxide emissions totaled 13.8 million metric tons per year.
We want to carry out this project because;
* we believe that climate change is the biggest collective, environmental challenge society faces today.
* we are convinced that it also presents an unprecedented opportunity for enhanced participation and cooperation.
* it has been proven that those who have contributed to climate change the least will suffer its impact the most immediately and profoundly. Accordingly, we are convinced that young people living in rural areas, especially in the Global South, are vital change agents in the efforts of any meaningful European climate change policy.
* we are convinced that connecting youth and decision-makers from the EU and its Southern neighbourhood in dialogue is an important step toward learning how to work together on common issues.
Our Priorities:
Reaching the policy level/dialogue with decision makers
Youth policy development
Environment and climate change
Project Aim:
The main objective of this project is to create space for dialogue and empower young people to address climate change concerns to decision makers in Turkey and Lithuania, but also beyond.
