A number of our partners over the years are actively fighting global warming and climate change through mitigating activities – activities that reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses that lead to global warming – and adaptation activities in order to minimize the impact of global warming.

The Gaia-Movement has been involved in many of these activities of our partners by helping to start them up, by helping to obtain funding for these and by directly donating funds to these. Find examples of this at the top menu under “Gaia Projects” and find a link to older projects at our projects page.

The following powerpoint pages tell about various mitigating and adaptation activities of our partners within The Federation of Associations connected to the International Humana People to People Movement – in short HPP – and how these activities help in the fight against global warming.

Mitigating Activities

 

1 Reuse of second-hand clothes

 

 

 

 

2 Reducing emissions by reducing waste

 

 

 

3 Storing carbon in soils

 

 

 

4 Planting trees

 

 

 

 

5 Using carbon-neutral energy

 

 

 

Adaptation Activities

6 Improving crop diversity

 

 

 

 

7 Preparing for more irregular weather

 

 

 

8 Caring for water resources

 

 

 

 

9 Teaching in schools

 

Here is another example of Gaia funding that has led to a much greater result.

In 2013, the Gaia-Movement’s Tree-planting Fund supported a number of associations with funds for tree planting campaigns, among them Humana People to People India. Much came out of this directly in the form of trees planted  in many of the Indian states, and it led to more funding with many more people involved and many more trees planted.

Read here the beautiful book made by Humana People to People India called Trees Are My Best Friends – a book on Environment, Art and Education (4.7 MB).

St. Vincent and the Grenadines is a small nation in the Caribbean. The Gaia-Movement has previously worked together with the institution Richmond Vale Academy on a tree planting project on St. Vincent, and has recently given a loan for a solar energy system to support the institution’s efforts to make the whole nation Climate Compliant.

Such an endeavour starts by setting up good examples of what can be done.

Open or download a presentation about how the people at Richmond Vale Academy work with renewable energy – Changing-the-World HiRes (11MB). In low resolution (0.5 MB), Changing-the-World LoRes

Watch the Youtube movie about Richmond Vale Academy working to become climate compliant – Making RVA Climate Compliant

This is an example of how the Gaia-Movement has helped an organisation start an environmental activity which has then opened up for such activities on a larger scale.

Read here how the 2012 Trial Stove Project in Mozambique started up exactly as a trial.

It then developed into an actual production and sales of firewood saving stoves, which you can read about in this report from ADPP Mozambique – Firewood_saving_stoves_project (1.5 MB)

Read about the project in Guinea Bissau, “Biofuels for Local Development”, where small-scale farmers have been trained and helped to expand their jatropha fences, and use the nuts to produce oil.

Or watch the movie “Our Climate, Our Challenge. Guinea-Bissau” made by Humana People to People. Parts of this film is about the people and the issues targeted by the “Biofuels for Local Development” project.

Click here to read about the project

“Enabling 18.000 people to access solar power, Bilibiza, Mozambique”

or link to a movie on Youtube about this project.

Read this article

Double whammy: The Poor and Global Warming

from the blog – demaskdeniers.wordpress.com

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