By Ilham Dharmawan
Edition.co.id – The Partnership with the support of the Adaptation Fund, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Forestry (KLHK) and the Central Java Provincial Government held Youth Camp 2024 in Bandungan, Semarang Regency on August 9-11.
The Youth Camp 2024 activity is one of the efforts made by the Partnership to instill awareness of the younger generation on climate change.
In his remarks, the Partnership’s Director of Operations Saiful Doeana said the Youth Camp has been held from 2022 to 2024 every year. This is part of the Adaptation Fund program in Pekalongan City.
“We do this activity by expanding the network of participants so that it can become a forum for increasing the awareness of young people on climate change management, especially related to adaptation actions that can be carried out by all of us,” Saiful said.
Saiful added that he was very happy and appreciated the enthusiasm of his friends in participating in this activity, where there were approximately 100 young people from three cities and three districts who attended.
The same thing was conveyed by the Head of Watershed Management and Natural Resources Conservation Division of the Central Java Provincial Government, Soegiharto.
Soegiharto said climate change control essentially aims to reduce ecological impacts. It also strengthens the economic and social resilience of the community through the creation of alternative livelihoods. Both of these require the role of the younger generation.
“The young generation is expected to contribute to society by actively creating innovations such as plastic processing, the use of digital technology in disaster early warning systems and climate information, and others,” Soegiharto said.
At the end of Youth Camp 2024, all participants will declare the concrete actions they will take in the future. Thus, it is hoped that they can initiate climate change adaptation movements in their respective regions.
Editor by Ilham Dharmawan
Source: edisi.co.id
