Climate Cool is part of the British Council’s global International Climate Champions (ICC) project. It offers innovative approaches to deepen the understanding of the climate change issue whilst suggesting local ways to tackle it.  

The ICC project has three interlinked strands, Education, Media and Society. The British Council Hong Kong is pursuing activities under the Education strand. To that effect, we will work with high school teachers and students to develop imaginative solutions to improve schools’ environmental performances and implementing students’ ideas. Through their engagement and contribution with climate change related activities, a selected number will be provided with different opportunities for training and development.

• Young Ambassadors Program – aims to increase young people’s awareness and knowledge about climate change whilst giving the skills needed to affect change in their local communities. The Climate Cool Camp is the first activity under the YA program and will be the main activity for 2009-2010. (The Camp is only open to Climate Cool schools)
• Sustainable Innovation Student Competition – is a competition designed to foster environmental entrepreneurship and encourage university students to develop imaginative and viable business plan that provide ways of tackling climate change. (The competition is open to all university students. Deadline is 24 July 2009)
• Climate Change Resources Development Project – aims to develop climate change teaching resources for use in junior middle schools. (This website will be available in September 2009.)
• Climate Cool online learning platform – co-organised by the British Council, the HKSAR Education Bureau and UniServity, the platform is a multilateral project using cutting edge IT in education technology to engage students from Hong Kong and those across the world to learn more about the impact of climate change on their world and explore realistic solutions together.

To find out more on any of these Climate Cool initiatives, please email climate.cool@britishcouncil.org.hk.

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