{"id":5171,"date":"2019-09-09T10:10:08","date_gmt":"2019-09-09T07:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5171"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:31","slug":"young-leaders-around-the-world-to-join-the-fight-against-plastic-pollution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/09\/young-leaders-around-the-world-to-join-the-fight-against-plastic-pollution\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Leaders Around The World To Join The Fight Against Plastic Pollution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>By UN Environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More young people around the world will be able to join\nthe fight against plastic pollution after the UK Government announced an\nextension of a global Scout and Girl Guides badge to create the next generation\nof international leaders to protect our ocean.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The badge not only encourages young people to take action\nto reduce plastic waste in their own lives, but also helps them become leaders\nin their communities to make sure that as many people as possible join the\nglobal fight to tackle the scourge of single-use plastics that is damaging our\nocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United Nations Environment Programme\u2019s Tide Turners\nPlastic Challenge Badge will be extended to a further 15 countries after\nsuccessfully engaging more than 30,000 Girl Guides and Scouts in&nbsp;west\nAfrica.&nbsp;Overseen by UN Environment, the badge&nbsp;was developed with the\nsupport of&nbsp;Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)&nbsp;and&nbsp;partners\nat the World Organization of the Scout Movement, the World Association of Girl\nGuides and Girl Scouts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe UK is already committed to leaving the environment\nin a better state for the next generation, which is why it\u2019s so important that\nwe inspire a new generation of leaders to change behavior towards single-use\nplastics&#8221; said International Marine Minister Zac Goldsmith. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/press-release\/young-leaders-around-world-join-fight-against-plastic-pollution\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UN Environment More young people around the world will be able to join the fight against plastic pollution after the UK Government announced an extension of a global Scout&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5172,"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-5171","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\/5171","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=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}