Environment & Climate Change
CLIMATE ACTION CHALLENGE 2022
Last Updated (Thursday, 05 May 2022 15:48)
#EarthHour2EarthDay
“Climate Action Challenge 2022”
“EarthHour2EarthDay” challenge has been organized for the second year as a 28-day Climate Action Challenge, starting from “Earth Hour” on 26 March to “Earth Day'' on 22 April 2022. Each day, APAY uploaded a challenge to commit to the following day.
The challenge has provided interesting and challenging ideas on how our personal actions and habits can help to save our mother earth.
Some challenges were:
-Walking 10,000 steps along with picking up 10 trashes on the way;
-Eating healthy every Monday;
-Using public transportation;
-Turning off electrical appliances when not in use, unplugging them as much as possible;
-Avoiding food and clothing waste.
There were 116 people participating in the challenge as an individual and group. We are truly happy that the participants committed themselves to acts of personal mitigation and adaptation on climate change through the challenge.
I am for Zero Waste!
Last Updated (Thursday, 05 May 2022 15:48)
‘I am for Zero Waste!’
The “I am for Zero Waste” is an environment awareness, advocacy and action campaign that focuses on individual commitment as well as the development of local and national integrated ecological programs in the YMCA. The ‘I am for Zero Waste’ campaign at an individual level involves changing habits and routines by making choices that have less harmful effects on the environment. At the organizational level, the campaign aims to encourage the movement and institution in changing their practices towards sustainable systems that are nature-based and ethical in order to build a framework for supporting a stable future for all.
In particular, this campaign is a follow-up action to the urgent call of the Green Ambassador’s Training participants to adopt the zero net carbon by 2030 as necessary to achieve maximum warming of 1.5 degree Celsius. The participants believed that setting this significant high standard affirms YMCA’s care for the ecology of the planet, the alleviation of people’s suffering and preservation of human dignity.
28-day Climate Action Clallenge
Last Updated (Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:44)
28-day Climate Action Clallenge
#EarthHour2EarthDay
The 28-day Climate Action Challenge started with Earth Hour on 26 March and will continue till Earth Day on 22 April. In total, this will be an exciting 28-day challenge for us to do our small part to stop global warming.
We would like to invite you to commit yourself to some small simple acts of personal mitigation and personal adaptation on climate change through the challenge. As responsible global citizens, we can together make significant contributions towards the goal of capping global warming at 1.5C above the preindustrial levels.
Challenges can provide you creative as well as challenging ideas on how our personal actions and habits can help to save our mother earth. Each evening, APAY will upload a challenge for us to commit to the following day. We hope you will join us in expressing your commitment to stop climate change.
As they say… tiny drops make a mighty ocean. So, help us amplify these simple acts by inviting and challenging your friends to participate.
The campaign has started but it's not too late to join us. We invite you to join us... even if you are only able to do it for a few days or a week. It's easy to join...
#EarthHour2EarthDay - A 25-Day Climate Action Challenge!
Last Updated (Thursday, 03 March 2022 10:58)
Two very important dates are coming up on our calendar in March and April. Earth Hour will be observed globally on 26 March 2022 and Earth Day will be observed on 22 April 2022.
APAY will launch a 25-Day Climate Action Challenge beginning from Earth Hour to Earth Day. The objective is to raise awareness on global warming and how we as individuals can commit and contribute towards averting this climate crisis through our small personal acts of mitigation and adaptation on climate change. As they say... tiny drops of water make a mighty ocean. It is our hope that these daily creative challenges can help us change our personal actions and habits. The sustained 25-day challenge can spark small changes towards a responsible low-carbon lifestyle. As young people we can make significant contributions towards the goal of capping global warming at 1.5C above the preindustrial levels.
Here's how the campaign will go...
For 25 days, from Earth Hour 26 March 2022 till Earth Day 22 April 2022, we would like to invite you to commit yourself to some small simple acts of personal mitigation and personal adaptation on climate change.
Each evening, APAY will upload a challenge for us to commit to the following day. We hope you will join us in expressing your commitment to combating climate change. Let us commit together to make a significant impact.
We would also like to encourage you to help propagate and amplify this campaign by posting pictures and reports of your personal acts of mitigation and adaptation for climate change to your FB page and other social media platforms. Tag your friends and challenge them, too, to amplify the campaign. Add hashtags #EarthHour2EarthDay to further propagate and promote the campaign. Our official campaign hashtag is #EarthHour2EarthDay but you are encouraged to have additional personal and group hashtags.
As we prepare for the 25-Day campaign, we would like to invite you to submit to us suggestions for creative challenges to be completed for each of the 25 days. Please send your creative suggestions (together with a small graphic) to us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
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Sharing My Experience at COP26 Participation
Last Updated (Friday, 03 December 2021 20:09)
COP26 Explained
It was the time of the year again for the Conference of the Parties (COP) to meet and discuss coordinated actions on how to jointly address climate change!
This COP26 held on October 31-November 12, 2021 at Glasgow, Scotland was the 26th meeting of the signatory governments (parties) to the United Nations Framework Convention of Climate Change (UNFCCC). Delegates include world leaders, ministers, and negotiators but also by representatives from the media, business, civil society and international organizations like the YMCA
There are two major zones at this COP; the Blue Zone where most the parties’ negotiation and meetings happen, and the Green Zone, where there are different displays and side events which are open to the public.
Race to 1.5
This COP26 is considered to be the most important COP because it calls for all countries to deliver what was promised at COP21 in Paris; to keep the rise in the global average temperature to “well below” 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, ideally 1.5 degree Celsius, strengthen the ability to adapt to climate change and build resilience; and align all finance flows with ‘a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate-resilient development’. In order to achieve these parties submitted “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDC’s) for 2030 and during this COP they need to revise it with more ambitious goals because the clock is ticking!
During his speech, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called the recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) a “code red for humanity.” Given the devastating impacts of climate change we all experience; extreme weather patterns, severe drought, catastrophic typhoons, rise in sea level, we all need to act fast!
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