Understanding and Addressing Climate Change: An Exhibit of Education and Climate Change Responses of Grassroots Movements and Communities

• Proponent: AGHAM (Advocates of Science and Technology for the People)
• Amount: 200,000.00
• Project Start Date: July 03, 2011
• Project End Date: August 15, 2011
• Grant Type: Advocacy Grants
• Area: National
• Grant Status: Past

Project Goals and Objectives

General Objective: To contribute to global efforts to bring about climate change justice by bringing forward and highlighting Asian and Philippine grassroots situation and calls on the challenges posed by impacts of climate change. Project Objectives: At the end of the event, grassroots and civil society organizations will have (1) Brought local and international attention, especially to global leaders and negotiators in the COP, the Asian grassroots situation of displacement, continuing threats, poverty and hunger, their calls and demands on climate change, most especially the call to ^abandon market-based mechanism of the Kyoto Protocol ^effect drastic cuts in GHG emissions by Annex 1 countries and big businesses that are the world's most pollutive and destructive industries ^stop the plunder of the world's natural resources ^ensure justice and measures for adaptation of victimized and vulnerable grassroots communities, particularly women, for the unabated destruction and pollution of the environment and people's lives and livelihood; (2) Increased understanding and capacities of audience, especially representatives and leaders of grassroots movements to further educate, organize and mobilize their constituents.