“ZOOM ­ Kids on the Move for Climate Action 2010”

Europe’s Children on a Joint Climate Voyage around the World

The Climate Alliance of European Cities once again invites children from all over Europe to collect Green Footprints to help save the world’s climate. Through an activity week dedicated to sustainable mobility, climate change as well as the fun of movement and independent mobility, kids can examine their daily journeys and learn how to treat the world's climate with care. Each journey completed by foot, bike, roller skates, scooter, bus, train, etc. counts as one “Green Footprint”. All nursery and primary school children are invited to participate because the more Green Footprints the better!

For the ninth time, children from ages 4 to 10 years old from all over Europe will collect Green Footprints that illustrate a symbolic journey around the world until end of November 2010. This “Climate Voyage”, with a total of ten stops on various continents, will start at the UNFCCC Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, and end at the next UN Climate Summit in Mexico. The stops will highlight specific climate issues and problems that occur in each place. The children will find polar bears that are losing their habitats and orang-utans that are suffering from our toilet paper production. The students will also meet several children who will share their personal climate problems occurring in the places where they live. In order to complete this year's voyage, the goal is to collect the least 69,467 Green Footprints, as this is the amount of kilometres needed to complete the “Climate Voyage” to Mexico.

Tens of thousands children from all over Europe (and beyond) are eagerly waiting to ZOOM again. Together they hope to collect even more Green Footprints than 2009, when 180,000 children collected over 2.8 million Green Footprints. This can only be achieved with the help of national and international schools and day-care facilities. They are all invited to ZOOM and collect as many Green Footprints as possible!

In December, Climate Alliance will hand over all Green Footprints collected to the participants of the 16th UN Climate Summit in Mexico to emphasize that “the little ones” won’t stop their climate actions despite the repeated empty promises about climate protection from “the big ones” attending UN Conferences.

“ZOOM ­ Kids on the Move for Climate Action”, is a campaign that has been annually organized by Climate Alliance since 2002. In 2009 more than 118,000 children participated, collecting the incredible amount of 2.8 million Green Footprints.

For more information and campaign materials please look on the website:
http://www.local-climate-protection.eu/zoom2010.html

Contact:
Claudia Schury, Tel. +49-69-717139-22, c.schury@climatealliance.org

The “Climate Alliance of European Cities with Indigenous Rainforest Peoples” is Europe’s largest city network dedicated to climate protection. Since 1990, more than 1500 cities and municipalities have joined and made the commitment to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent every five years. Climate Alliance’s European Secretariat helps its members by providing methods and tools to efficiently implement local climate change policies and to evaluate the achievements in terms of CO2 emissions reductions. It also promotes the exchange of experiences and lobbies for improved framework conditions at national, European and international levels.

Climate Alliance / Klima-Bündnis / Alianza del Clima e.V.
European Secretariat
Galvanistr. 28, D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
Tel. +49-69-717139-0, Fax +49-69-717139-93
europe@climatealliance.org
http://www.climatealliance.org

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