Climate Change
The evidence is clear: human activity is dramatically altering the environment of the very world we live in. Through deforestation and burning fossil fuels, our actions are releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, raising the temperature of the land, sea and air. Climate change affects us all and it’s taking place on a global and local scale.
Now the question is how we respond.
At first, it can all seem overwhelming. The problem appears so big, so confusing and so frightening that it looks as if there is little one person or one group of people can do. And, anyway, isn’t it up to politicians, economists and scientists to work out the answers?
To realise this mission, the British Council has developed a Climate Change Programme with a series of specific projects falling under four overarching themes. The projects draw on the British Council’s demonstrated expertise in delivering strong impacts through cultural relations programmes and are designed to bring down the barriers of helplessness and misunderstanding that stop people from taking action.
We are working to strengthen networks and relationships among decision makers, influencers and future leaders worldwide to tackle climate change.
As Britain marked Climate Week, E-idea winners Stephen Mushin and Patrick Yeom returned from the International Antarctic Expedition (IAE) 2012, which was designed to introduce the fragile ecology of the Seventh Continent and inspire participants to become ambassadors for education, the ...
The rockstar Rojesh Shreshtha pours his inner emotion into powerful lyrics and sings to inspire a young generation at the Durbar Square in Kathmandu. It is time to wake up and take responsible for the planet. To be smart, you need to act first.This film is the 10th and last part of the series ...
An Oxford University study of climate change coverage in six countries suggests that newspapers in the UK and the US have given far more column space to the voices of climate sceptics than the press in Brazil, France, India and China. More than 80 per cent of the times that sceptical voices ...
Martin Davidson joined Foreign Secretary William Hague, DECC secretary Chris Huhne and South Africa’s Ambassador at Large for Climate Change Nozipho Mxakato-Diseko on a panel at the FCO last week to answer questions about climate change from young people, among them BC Climate Champions and ...
“Two months ago, I was selected as the Canadian delegate to attend a climate change training session with European youth on board an expedition vessel in the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Training was led by a team from the United Nations Environment Programme’s polar research ...
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