ICE - CLIMATE - EDUCATION 2008

Arved Fuchs (55) left for the town of Húsavík on Iceland this weekend for the second youth camp which is part of his “Ice-Climate-Education” project.

A total of fourteen young people from eleven nations will be participating, in order to inform themselves on the topic of climatic change. The young people qualified themselves to take part in the camp on Iceland through a competition in which they worked on projects on three different pertaining themes. The winners were chosen for their creative approach to the three clearly defined scenarios in the context of global warming. The participants with the best project results were awarded the trip to Iceland, which will last almost two weeks.

The winners this year come from the following nations Germany (3), Austria, Estonia, Cyprus, Russia, Israel, Iceland, South Africa, Namibia, Columbia, Nicaragua and Canada.

The participants of the ICE-Project this year form an even more international group than the one held last year on Spitsbergen, where Fuchs welcomed young people from five nations.

The youth camp is being held again this year in the Arctic because climatic change and its effects are happening faster and in a more dramatic way here at present than any where else in the world. Arved Fuchs will again be accompanied by scientists, who will hold talks with  the participants on the problems of global warming as well as take readings, record and analyse the results and discuss them.

The participants will then return after the camp  to their schools as “Diplomats of the Arctic” and encourage further projects on the topics of global warming. Fuchs hopes in this way to make today’s young generation aware of the importance of protecting our climate.

This years camp takes place from the 10^th to the 21^st of August in Húsavík.

A diary will inform about all the adventures on Iceland.