{"id":4724,"date":"2019-08-20T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T06:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=4724"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:29","slug":"eco-warriors-fight-climate-change-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/08\/20\/eco-warriors-fight-climate-change-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Eco-Warriors\u2019 Fight Climate Change In South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN News<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schools in South\nAfrica have been designating students as \u201ceco-warriors\u201d as part of an\ninitiative supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), to drive\nenvironmental and climate change awareness amongst the young and old in their\ncommunities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The youthful warriors have supported rubbish clean-up campaigns\naround their schools, eliminating over 1000 illegal dumping sites.<strong>\u00a9 SGP South Africa and Future Leaders of\nChange<\/strong>&nbsp;|\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Through the SGP support the Climate Change\nWarriors Project (CCWP) was able to establish six small-scale conservation\nagriculture co-operatives&nbsp;and coordinate youth training on sustainable\nagriculture.&nbsp;\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other students have established agricultural co-operatives and learned how to farm sustainably in the face of the effects of climate change and the degradation of the environment. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2019\/08\/1044101\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN News Schools in South Africa have been designating students as \u201ceco-warriors\u201d as part of an initiative supported by the UN Development Programme (UNDP), to drive environmental and climate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}