ArmInfo. Environmental and climate protection are among the priority issues of the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. This is stated in the message of the German Embassy in Armenia. It is also noted that online Eastern Partnership Youth Conference "Youth for Environment'', which will take place online on Sep 24-26, 2020, will make a special contribution to this issue.
Through participation in the online Eastern Partnership Youth Conference "Youth for Environment", young people will have the possibility to discover methods, strategies and tools to cultivate environmental behaviour and knowledge, advancing environmental education and activism among peers in the Eastern Partnership. Participants from the selected countries will be equipped with tools to enable them to tackle environmental problems through quality education, advocacy, youth work in order to boost the efficient use of resources by moving to a clean, circular economy and restore biodiversity and cut pollution.
The Eastern Partnership Youth Conference "Youth for Environment" 2020 will gather around 130 participants, including 90 young people from the EaP countries, EU member states and Russia.
The conference will take place in English with simultaneous translation to Russian.