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Almost 200 "climate ambassadors" recently attended a United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef)-funded conference in Zambia to discuss ways of surviving climate change and to develop strategies for dealing with the effects of global warming.But the delegates were not heads of state or policy-makers but proactive teenagers between the ages of 12 and 18.United Nations Children's Fund: Definition from Answers.com
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Petersen and the development unit have also developed a training package for teachers in secondary schools, in cooperation with the department of environmental affairs and development planning and the City of Cape Town, to learn how to integrate education in sustainable behaviour into the syllabus.
So far, two four-day workshops have been attended by about 150 teachers.
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"It's not about the science. There's a sense of hopelessness. The carbon is up there already. So critical thinking on how to eat, consume and dispose needs lots of attention," said Winters.
Linda Cilliers, head of research and publications at OneWorld Sustainable Investments, said policymakers often underestimate the importance of involving children in climate talks. "It's not only for the education of the child but also for the power of the child to educate an adult," she said. -- West Cape News
Special United Nations program for aiding national efforts to improve the health, nutrition, education, and general welfare of children. Its original purpose was to provide relief to children in countries devastated by World War II. After 1950 it turned to general programs for the improvement of children's welfare. It was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1965. UNICEF has focused its efforts on areas in which relatively small expenditures can have a significant impact on the lives of the most disadvantaged children, such as the prevention and treatment of disease.
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