Clean Technology Hub, FCT Launch Climate And Change Youth Movement In Abuja Secondary Schools

Clean Technology Hub, a renewable energy and climate change advocacy firm, has launched a Climate Change and Youth Movement in FCT secondary schools in collaboration with the Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation of the FCT Education Secretariat.

On April 25, 2024, the collaborators established the Climate and Change Youth Movement at the Government Science and Technical College in Bwari, FCT.

The Climate Change and Youth Movement is a platform for students to learn about the environment and help solve climate change challenges in their communities. It is consistent with a worldwide effort to raise awareness and educate children and youth about climate change and renewable energy. According to experts, children and youth have the potential to be driving forces in meeting the Sustainable Development Goals’ climate change targets.

Clean Technology Hubs’ Climate Change and Youth Movement, designed for public secondary school students and teachers, aims to assist schools in developing climate education programmes. CTH plans to implement it by forming new environmental clubs (Green Clubs) or collaborating with existing ones that target science and art students, and providing them with a club manual to guide their meetings.

The schools will also take part in the first Nigerian Students Climate Summit, which will take place on June 6, 2024, to commemorate World Environment Day.

The program’s goals are to raise awareness, sustainability, and resilience about climate change and clean energy, to build capacity in the various technical skills needed in the clean energy market value chain, and to improve understanding of opportunities in the renewable energy sector.

Ms Ifeoma Malo, founder and CEO of Clean Technology Hub, stated, “The agreement signed with DSTI allows us to launch a pilot programme in the Government Science and Technical College, Bwari, which, if successful, will be replicated in other colleges in Abuja.