Environment Department offers training on climate change to community agents

The City's Department of the Environment, in partnership with The Climate Reality Project, launched the first Virtual Climate Learning Journey on Tuesday (16/03). This unprecedented action will train 32 environmental agents and monitors to implement environmental education actions aimed at mitigating and adapting to climate change.

– More than raising awareness among community leaders about the global climate emergency, the training project will result in actions with local impact – explains the Secretary of the Environment, Eduardo Cavaliere.

Representatives from 18 communities from all regions of the city of Rio will take part in the event, which will take place in four meetings. In a flipped classroom format, with synchronous and asynchronous activities, the modules consist of reading, research, planning and assignments, as well as group discussions. At the end of the event, participants will present microprojects created by them that can be put into practice and respond to the needs of the communities.

The opening meeting, held via Zoom on National Climate Change Awareness Day, was attended by – in addition to agents, environmental monitors and more than 50 people from civil society, registered to participate in the event – ​​Secretary Eduardo Cavaliere, economist and ecologist Sérgio Besserman and the coordinator of the Climate Reality Project in Brazil, Renata Moraes.

– Climate change is the most important issue in the history of the 21st century. We are all impacted by the climate and it needs to be a matter for all of civilization. Participating in this action, besides being symbolic, is exciting – said Besserman, in his opening speech.

The Climate Reality Project is a global organization founded by Al Gore, Nobel Prize winner and former Vice President of the United States. In Brazil, the organization is represented by the Brazil Climate Center and has almost 600 Climate Reality Leaders who work to disseminate information about climate change by mobilizing companies and governments.

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March 17th, 2021

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