Young minds gather for Eco Club Summit
abu dhabi — Over 247 students and 110 teachers from Abu Dhabi schools are taking part in the 4th Eco Club Summit in the capital to share experiences of successful environmental sustainability initiatives. The sustainability event is being hosted by the Environment Agency, Abu Dhabi (EAD) in cooperation with Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) with the participation of 120 schools.
The summit is part of EAD’s Sustainable Schools Initiative (SSI) that brings educational and environmental experts together with environmental youth leaders and members from Abu Dhabi’s leading school ecoclubs. It aims to foster open discussion, interactive brainstorming and to share experiences of successful environmental sustainability initiatives.
Held under the theme ‘The Power of Sustainable Giving,’ the event aims to strengthen students’ social responsibility towards our environment, and promote the spirit of giving back to it. Ahmed Baharoon, executive director, environmental information, science and outreach management, EAD said: “The Eco Club Summit is an annual event that provides unique platform for Sustainable Schools Initiative students, to share their sustainability achievements and practices with each other. It also aims to capacity build their skills in different areas such as leadership, system thinking, strategic thinking, collaborative thinking, and other competencies to promote sustainability”.
He pointed out that through this event eco-clubs will display 348 internal and external projects to raise awareness in their school and communities. These projects focus on five categories including
The Eco Club Summit is an annual event that provides unique platform for Sustainable Schools Initiative students, to share their sustainability achievements and practices with each other.”
Ahmed Baharoon
Executive director Environmental information, science and outreach management, EAD
water, energy, waste, biodiversity, and climate change. Launched in 2014, the Eco Club Summit hosts inspirational young speakers, environmental and educational experts and provides unique opportunity to converse with the elite group of ambitious young environmental activists. This year five speakers will share their stories with SSI students on how they transformed their passion towards the environment, into actions.