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2024 Global Youth Zero Carbon Future Summit
young friend
Are you always concerned about climate change and eager to make changes?
Are you committed to exploring the potential of carbon reduction in daily life such as food, clothing, housing and transportation?
Here, you will have the opportunity
Sound the voice of youth
Take youth action
Demonstrate the power of youth
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The 4th Global Youth Zero Carbon Future Summit, co-sponsored by the World University Alliance on Climate Change (GAUC) and UNESCO, will be held from September 12 to 14 in a combination of online and offline methods. It will be divided into two sections: Youth Dialogue and Net-Zero Challenge Workshop.
This zero-carbon challenge invites young people from around the world to form a team to analyze the characteristics and shortcomings of existing products, technologies, and services around the synergy between the four typical scenarios of clothing, food, housing, and transportation and climate change, and propose innovative carbon reduction solutions. Carbon solutions, or provide innovative carbon reduction products and services.
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Participate in the Zero Carbon Challenge and you will receive:
1. Award setting: Each track will have one gold, silver and bronze medal, as well as a winning prize. The winning team will receive an honorary certificate jointly awarded by GAUC and UNESCO.
2. Project promotion opportunities: Project videos of the finalists will be broadcast at this Global Youth Zero Carbon Future Summit and will have the opportunity to be presented at the COP29 side event.
3. Have in-depth exchanges with industry experts and outstanding young people in the same field, understand the forefront of the industry, expand international horizons, and collide with ideas.
4. Receive project feedback and suggestions from professional judges, improve the project plan, and have the opportunity to obtain resource matching opportunities for subsequent project cultivation.
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Climate x Clothing: Focusing on the entire process of clothing production and consumption, including raw material selection, production processes, supply chain management and waste disposal, it proposes innovative carbon reduction solutions to promote the sustainable transformation of the clothing industry and reduce its impact on climate change.
Possible directions include the development and promotion of green materials, improvement of production processes, circular economy and changes in consumer behavior.
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Climate x Food: Focus on the carbon footprint impact of food production, processing, distribution, consumption, recycling, etc., and propose innovative solutions from reducing food waste and optimizing food supply chains to improving agricultural sustainability and advocating low-carbon diets. Promote the low-carbon transformation of the global food system.
Possible directions for consideration include low-carbon agricultural practices, low-carbon food processing, green supply chain design and reducing food waste.
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Climate x Housing: Explore carbon reduction paths for buildings and living environments, with key areas including architectural design, energy use, material selection and intelligent management of the living environment. By promoting the popularization and practical application of green building concepts, we will improve the sustainability of the living environment and contribute to addressing climate change.
Possible directions for consideration include green building materials, energy efficiency design, intelligent management and community low-carbon practices.
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ClimatexTransportation: Transportation is an important source of global carbon emissions, so more environmentally friendly transportation methods and technologies must be explored. Participating teams can focus on transportation, transportation management, travel patterns and infrastructure construction, and propose cleaner and more efficient transportation solutions to help the green transformation of global travel methods.
Possible directions include promoting green transportation methods, developing and promoting renewable fuels, optimizing urban transportation planning and changing travel habits.
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This year's Zero Carbon Future Summit also collects creative Short Video with the theme of "My Net-Zero Diary" from around the world to encourage young people to practice sustainable concepts in their daily lives.
As long as you give full play to your creativity, you can take the actions you take to mitigate or adapt to climate change in your life, and how to practice the concept of sustainable development in all aspects of food, clothing, housing and transportation. Throughout the video, you can provide guidance and help the public adapt to and mitigate climate change. Practical measures. It is the vanguard force we are looking for!
Your voice will have a chance to be displayed
1. 2024 Global Youth Zero Carbon Future Summit
2. The World University Alliance on Climate Change (GAUC) and other global partners Social Media
3. Side event for the 29th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29)
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