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Project Learning Tree Canada

United States of America
July 26, 2024
Advance environmental education, forest literacy, and career pathways using trees and forests, to help develop students’ awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of the environment, builds their skills and ability to make informed decisions, and encourages them to take personal responsibility for sustaining the environment and our quality of life that depends on it.
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مبادرة المدارس البيئية\ الخضراء / Eco-Schools Initiative

United Arab Emirates
Morocco
July 26, 2024
The Eco-Schools Initiative is an international program that empowers students to become active participants in creating sustainable schools and communities. It encourages schools to integrate environmental education into the curriculum and implement environmentally friendly practices throughout their operations.
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Citizen science on flooding and waterlogging risk management

Argentina
July 6, 2022
Description of citizen participation  Citizens participate mainly in:  1) Defining scenarios and building knowledge related to flood and waterlogging risks in the area, through two types of interactive participatory workshops: institutional (including specific activities aimed at some of the stakeholders in relation to their risk management role) and inter-institutional (aimed at members of all participating organizations with different risk management roles, which favors experience sharing). Ac… [Read more]
SDGs61113
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Mon milieu : application mobile de gestion et prévention des catastrophes naturelles (inondations)

Niger
June 23, 2022
 « Mon milieu » est une application mobile qui permettra aux populations d'être informées à temps réel en cas de phénomènes générateurs de risques d'inondations liés à leurs zones. L'application permettra également aux utilisateurs d'être conseillés sur l'attitude à adopter avant, pendant et après les inondations tout en se conformant aux consignes et actions engagées … [Read more]
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Oxygen bank - engaging children in environmentalism

Bangladesh
May 10, 2022
Oxygen Bank is an initiative of the social enterprise Green Savers. As part of this initiative, students are inspired to donate small sums of money in the Bank from their lunch to pay for the Oxygen that they get free from nature. The bank is opened each month and This money is then used to buy trees and take care of the trees planted in their school rooftop and premises.
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#CorporateResponsibility: Improving companies eco practices 

Guatemala
January 31, 2022
Centrarse  is the organization promoting CSR in Guatemala, with 18 years of experience. Led by visionary entrepreneurs and driven by an executive team committed to working with companies and all public and private sectors, promoting sustainability as a business transformer. Through different programs, it encourages and advises different companies to improve their practices and to start having a correct environmental responsibility.
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#CorporateResponsibility: recycling and educating 

Guatemala
January 31, 2022
Companies that work with CMI already seek to generate less waste and adopt raw materials from non-virgin sources and recycled material; they also offer biodegradable products that fulfill their purpose and degrade more easily. Another aspect to which the companies are adding is that they are helping to raise awareness in the communities surrounding their companies about the positive impact of recycling on the environment and water resources, one of the main sources of contamination due to the in… [Read more]
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#InnovationChallenge: Disruptive Education for everyone

Guatemala
January 31, 2022
This solution was mapped thanks to the third edition of the challenge "Innovating together for children and sustainable development", which aimed to boost solutions that had an impact on clean and affordable energy or solid and liquid waste management. Solutions to the most pressing global problems require creative innovators and critical thinkers. Access to quality STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education is linked to poverty reduction, economic growth and more resilien… [Read more]
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Water conservation fund - Advocacy

Guatemala
January 28, 2022
Water Fund whose mission is to contribute to the long-term availability of water supply for the Metropolitan Region of Guatemala, raising awareness about its responsible use and carrying out efficient conservation and risk reduction actions, through public-private partnerships that guarantee financial sustainability.
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Ecological Movement of Students

Guatemala
January 28, 2022
The Movimiento Ecológico Estudiantil MEE is a Latin American inter-university-transdisciplinary group, passionate about nature but outraged by the tragedies and neglect that plague our resources and threaten to continue damaging the environment and all that is part of it. The are promoting change towards the development of sustainable habits. Providing feasible solutions to the current conditions of the different territories in relation to current ecological problems. 
SDGs41317

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