Category: Environment

Last Monday, the city of Nicosia (Cyprus) became a meeting point for climate action youth with the celebration of a Climathon very special. This event brought to 86 participants and more than 10 partner organizations, mainly in the ecosystem, cyprus, coupled entities of Spain, and Macedonia, all of them committed to sustainability and working with youth.

An event to share, apply, and multiply impact

This Climathon was not only a day of collaborative work, but also a multiplier event which was a perfect end to the european project Action4Climate. A space designed to share the results achieved during the project and, above all, to take them to practice in a dynamic environment, and participatory.

Throughout the day, participants worked together in the generation of ideas and solutions to the climate challenges of today, applying methodologies and learning developed during the last few months.

Youth protagonist of the change

The event counted with the participation of organizations that are actively working on the development of skills, learning and empowerment of young people as educators, innovators and climate activists. All of them with a common goal: to promote the change from their local communities.

Communicating the climate to combat misinformation

One of the key axes of the day was to reflect on how to communicate climate change more effectively. In this sense, he worked especially on:

The narrative data
The use of stories, weather
Strategies to combat misinformation

A fundamental approach to strengthen the role of the entities and of the youth as agents of change is informed and engaged.

A european project with real impact

From Fundación Hazloposible, driving platform for Climate Action, we have been proud to lead this project since October, 2024 to march 2026, creating spaces for collaboration, learning and innovation with tangible impact. This project has received the support of the European Union, reinforcing the importance of international cooperation to address the challenges of global climate.

Thank you for being a part of the path

We want to thank all the participants and organizations that have contributed to the development of the project throughout these months. A special recognition to our partners of the consortium: smartup time and Youth Employment Training Foundation (YETF), for their commitment and constant collaboration.

Relive the event

If you were unable to attend or want to see again some of the highlights, you can do so here:

On march 16, Nicosia will become a meeting point for young people committed to the future of our planet with the arrival of the Climathon Action4Climate, an event dynamic and participatory, designed to transform the concern in action in front of the weather challenges.

Climathon is much more than a day of debate: it is a space where young people from different backgrounds come together to learn, share ideas, and create real solutions to the problems associated with the climate that affect us all. With participants from Spain, Cyprus and Macedonia to the North, the event will offer the opportunity to learn directly from experts in sustainability, as well as environmental organizations and youth who are already pushing for the change.

The main element of the Climathon are climate challenges specially designed, which will be addressed in collaborative teams. With the support of mentors, the groups will analyze specific problems, to propose innovative solutions and develop ideas with social and environmental impact, all in an environment that is creative, inclusive and motivating. The forests, the air quality or how we can measure the water pollution are just some of the themes that will work for the Climathon.

If you are interested in the environment, social innovation, or simply want to be part of a young community that believes that it is possible to have a different future, Climathon is for you.

Practical information

Date: march 16, 2026
Hours: 9:00-16:00
Place: ΚΕΕΑΕΔ – KEEAED, Trikoupi 129-131, Nicosia, 1016, Cyprus
Registration here

Join in and be part of the change

Places are limited. Sign up now and bring your ideas, your energy and your motivation to help transform the world, starting with your city.

What you learn outside the classroom can also make the difference. If you’ve ever participated in a volunteer experience or youth such as those offered by the project Action4Climate, you’ve probably experienced learning that go beyond the theory. But, how do we show all of this on our profile? Here comes into play the Youthpass.

Much more than a certificate

In the field of non-formal education, the certificate, Youthpass has established itself as a key tool to supplement the curriculum. This certificate is driven by the European Commission within the programmes Erasmus + and European Corps of Solidarity (ESC), and also to prove the participation in youth activities, training or social, puts in value the personal and professional skills developed through them.

The Youthpass is the result of a process of reflection on learning. Your goal is to recognize and identify what each participant has learned, how they have learned and how you can apply that knowledge in your personal life, professional or community.

Along experiences such as volunteering, youth exchanges or international ensembles such as the Action4Climate, young people acquire skills that are often not reflected in the academic qualifications: leadership, cross-cultural communication, teamwork, conflict resolution, or environmental awareness. The Youthpass helps to recognize and express these skills in a clear and structured manner, based on the eight key competences of the European Union for lifelong learning.

In a labour market increasingly competitive, this certificate becomes a valuable tool to highlight the transferable skills that companies and organizations value the most: initiative, adaptability, critical thinking, social responsibility, or ability of continuous learning. It not only shows that a person has participated in a project, but have you learned from it, has reflected on her role in the society and has developed skills that will prepare you for the challenges of the future.

A useful resource for your professional future

The certificate, Youthpass, recognized in Europe, can be easily incorporated to the curriculum vitae as a concrete evidence of acquired skills in an international context or community. In a job interview or selection process, you can mark the difference; it already shows the ability to learn in any environment, working with people from different cultures and engage with real causes. More than a certificate, it is a way of showing that the growth, contribution, impact, and the acquisition of skills that only ‘learn by doing’.

Youthpass and Action4Climate: learn how to transform

In the project Action4Climate, the certificate, Youthpass charges an even deeper meaning. This environmental initiative seeks to promote knowledge, action, and entrepreneurship to address climate change, promoting solutions transformative based on open data and evidence.

In this initiative for people 18-35 years, through formations online free, develops both ecological awareness, as practical skills to generate impact on the environment. It is an opportunity to learn about sustainability, leadership, disclosure, and critical thinking while designing local actions with global outreach through open educational resources available.

At the end of each session, you will receive a certificate, Youthpass as recognition of learning and commitment to the planet. In this way, Action4Climate becomes a space where personal growth is joined to the collective action, and where each certificate represents a story of learning, and consciousness and transformation. A story that, in addition, may be displayed, shared and open new opportunities.

Subscribe to the upcoming sessions, and make your experience count conYouthpass and Action4Climate.

The effects of the climate crisis are no longer a concern for the future, are a reality that we live day to day. The heat waves are becoming more intense, prolonged drought affecting crops and reservoirs, forest fires and floods that devastate thousands of hectares of land and the loss of biodiversity in unique ecosystems are clear signs that climate change is altering our daily life and our natural environment. In fact, this summer has been the hottest ever recorded in Spain, while most of 2,1 °C above the average of 1991-2020, which intensified the conditions for forest fires.

Before all of this, not enough to worry about: the urgent need is to act. And there is where comes the environmental volunteering and environmental activism. Although both forms of involvement have different approaches, together they can generate high-impact

Environmental volunteering: hands-on

The environmental volunteering is when you are sums of practical ways to take care of nature. It is the direct action, dedicate your time and energy to projects and activities that protect, restore and enhance the environment. Some examples could be: reforest a forest or an urban area; clean beaches, rivers, and parks; to participate in recycling campaigns; or care for animals rescued from natural disasters.

Through the environmental volunteering not only help to mitigate the climate crisis, but also:

See concrete results: a space more clean, one tree planted, an animal recovered.
You learn a lot about the natural environment.
You strengthen bonds with your community and meet people with your same interests.
It is an experience that fills you with well-being and connection to nature.

Environmental activism: to raise the voice

Environmental activism, in contrast, seeks to change the rules of the game. This is not only to cleanse a space, but to protect the environment and promote sustainability through various strategies, such as awareness of social, political pressure to change laws, scientific research, and direct action. In particular, consist in: attend marches and demonstrations; to sign and spread requests; engage in awareness-raising campaigns on social networks; to promote projects of law or to report harmful.

By the environmental activism, you can:

Help the environmental problems are visibilicen
To achieve large-scale changes, such as laws or policies that are more fair.
Empower people and communities to defend their right to a healthy environment.
Building networks and alliances with other social causes.

What if you combine both?

The best thing is that you don’t have to choose just one to act against climate change. You can participate in as a volunteer on a weekend and at the same time to join campaigns or demonstrations. Planting a tree helps, obviously, but require policy of reforestation multiply that impact.

In fact, volunteering and activism complement: one transforms the immediate environment, the other is looking at large-scale changes. And together they are an unstoppable force to defend our planet, and your well being, as your desire to change the world.

If you want to explore the pathways of collaboration through volunteering, enters Hacesfalta.org and discover all the possibilities. And if, in turn, want to join the environmental activism, sign in Accionporelclima.org to find your community.

We’re celebrating the International Day Against Climate Change, reinforcing our commitment to the environment: Fundación Hazloposible leads the Erasmus+ programme Action4Climate, a work by the environment and the fight against climate change, with particular emphasis on the promotion of participation of young people from social innovation. Learn about the importance of this day and the only thing you need to know about the project.

As he warns the Organization of the United Nations (UN): we are responsible for global warming. Scientists have shown that humans are responsible for global warming over the past 200 years. Human activities, like burning fossil fuels or the clearing of land and forests, produce greenhouse gases, warming the planet, to the fastest pace in the last 2000 years.

Other consequences that we are experiencing today is, among other things, the intense droughts, water scarcity, severe fires, sea level rise, flooding, melting of the poles, devastating storms, and the loss of biodiversity.

This is a summary of the effects of climate change are manifold, irrevocable and undeniable and the responsibility to respond to them is also a burden for us.

Action4Climate: A commitment by the global alliance for climate

Thus is born the commitment of the Fundación Hazloposible to unite the citizens, volunteers, NGOS, businesses, and all the social actors who seek to join forces for the care of the environment in the same space: the Action for the Climate.

Accionporelclima.org also, has the seeds of a new project at the international level in the framework of the Erasmus+programme , and the, which we are proud to announce that it will be driven by Hazloposible: Action4Climate.

For Action4Climate

Action4Climate is an international project, scaling the initiative of the Fundación Hazloposible, Climate Action (2019). Hazloposible is the coordinator of the Consortium, during 18 months, is committed to supporting direct the education and development of initiatives in the field of sustainability, climate action, in particular the younger generations of the beneficiary communities.

The Consortium is oriented in the subregion of the Mediterranean, since it shows significant signs of vulnerability to climate change today. Therefore, the participating entities operated by the realities of Spain (Hazloposible), Cyprus (Institute of Employment/Youth Training, IEEN), and Macedonia in the North (smartup time, the Social Innovation Lab), with the participation of the agencies of the Ecosystem in the countries of south-eastern europe, as well as other realities that are affected.

For our part, Hazloposible brings the experience and resources to coordinate, and to transfer the knowledge and the results of the Action4Climate of the Ecosystem of the Social Economy and local communities.

As always, we will keep you updated on this exciting new project, the materials and the events will be published and everything you need to know to be part of this initiative with the environmental future of more sustainable for our planet.

We continue the fight against climate change with the participation of citizens who wish to join this purpose, to share your ideas, and be part of a community are concerned about the environment.

The progress of new technologies, and the development of these, and has continued to expand the range of possibilities of citizen collaboration to carry out solidarity actions. In recent years, we have seen, such as the care of the environment has become a huge concern, particularly for the younger generations.

According to the ‘Report Youth España 2020’, developed by INJUVE young adults, between the ages of 14 and 29 years, 76% of the respondents is shown to be more concerned and sensitive to the policies and attitudes to the environment.

As a result of this situation, there have been numerous applications and web portals that have been developed in order to carry out collective actions in seeking to improve the planet on which we live. Here you have four applications that you will be able to find ideas to take care of the environment, and to share it with vuestr friends and conocid@s.

Forest

In the beginning, this application sought help you get and keep healthy levels of concentration and disconnect virtual. So, while the app was active, I was going to grow a virtual forest with different trees and plants. If the user were making use your device to access the other apps, the trees died and the forest disappeared. In relation to the amount of time that is effective to maintain the concentration, each user could be collecting virtual coins. This initiative, which is a priori not had a real impact on the environment, has been becoming an action that has crossed the screen and has managed to plant more than 400,000 real trees, but how?

Users of this application have collaborated with the organization Trees for the Future, which is dedicated to planting trees in areas that have been grass of the massive deforestation. Thus, of the 145 million trees planted by the organization, almost half a million have emerged from this app, in which users have enabled the option of desvirtualizar your action and get to reforest large plots of land.

Wibeee

By using this application we can get an electronic device that, when connected to a power outlet and through the use of Wifi connection, being reports of information about the power consumption of each home. So, in our Smartphone we will be able to get reports of our energy consumption and alerts in the event that we have exceeded the limits of consumption that we’ve previously configured. So we make sure to consume more efficiently and sustainably, and to control the invoice of light.

Metas sostenibles

This application seeks to ensure that users can access to a large number of actions focused on sustainability following the principle of the 4RS: “Reuse what you can, recycle what cannot, reduce what you have, and reject what you don’t need to”.

Through a system of tasks, such as do not use elevators, use of means of public transport, or consume products of second hand, the user can mark those milestones you go getting. Also, we propose a series of tips and tips to live a day-to-day more sustainable.

Arbolapp

In this app, promoted by the Government of Spain, the Spanish national research council and the Royal Botanic Garden, images appear didactic and useful information about thousands of species of herbaceous and arboreal of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

Users can learn to recognize native species, learn about the care of trees, or the protection of natural spaces. With a language that is going to fluctuate between scientific rigor and simple explanations, the user is able to learn all the details about the thousands of species that appear in the app. It is very useful to learn about nature and the different ways in which we protect it.

Sources: Government of Spain, CSIC, Infobae, and INJUVE.

The oceans cover more than two-thirds of the entire surface of The Earth, so that their state and conservation are essential to the sustainability of our planet. Despite the enormous importance of the oceans, these are under many threats that endanger the survival of thousands of species of marine life. Some of these threats will materialize in the form with overfishing, the progressive loss of biodiversity, or the contamination of ocean.

Pollution of the oceans

According to WWF, more than 70% of the pollution of the seas and oceans comes from land-based activities, from microplásticos, pesticides, or discharges of various types of waste contaminants. Around 200 tonnes of plastic end up annually in oceans around the world, the majority of them are not visible on the surface, but that end up forming part of what we call microplásticos. The microplásticos are small pieces of plastic of about 5 mm in diameter which are dispersed and are found in large amounts in the seas and oceans, in addition to the land surfaces.

The oil spills are a major threat, in terms of pollution of the oceans. This fuel ends up many times in the sea, as a result of spills or leaks, involuntary vessels that transport crude oil from one place to another, but these discharges also reach the sea by the drains of the cities, which represents a flow of pollution very abundant.

Another of the threats facing the oceans are the discharges of fertilizers from farms or farms. These discharges produce a phenomenon known as eutrophication, which occurs when the sea presents additional nutrients (those that come from fertilizers) and cause the flowering mass of algae, which leads to deoxygenation of the oceans. With the decrease of the oxygen, the marine fauna is threatened, and eventually disappear, as has happened recently in the Mar Menor.

Overfishing and exploitation of the oceans

The scientific community has been unanimous in warning about the serious consequences of overfishing poses to our oceans and coasts. When we speak of overfishing, we refer to the extraction of fauna and flora of the sea at a rate that is too high for these species can be repopulated in a natural way.

From half of the TWENTIETH century, many countries of the world began to invest large amounts of money to grow its fishing capacity, with the purpose of improving the availability and obtain lower fish products to ensure their accessibility to the consumers. However, these large fleets ended up practicing a fishing which can be considered as aggressive, making use of sophisticated methods, to the couple that overwhelming, to extract each time more fish in lower time frames.

The practice of indiscriminate fishing has affected large populations of marine wildlife, but also flora ocean. For example, coral reefs are highly vulnerable to overfishing. According to National Geographic, the fish that feed on plants are the ones that manage to keep the balance of the ecosystem, eating algae and maintaining the healthy corals and clean. The massive fishing of these fish herbivores decrease the population, so that results in the gradual destruction of the reefs, which makes them more susceptible to processes such as pollution or climate change.

Also some types of fishing, such as trawling, can destroy the corals when they are severely weakened. This type of fishing is characterised by launching major networks of the sea to capture the catch of the day, however, these networks lay waste to everything in its path, so that in addition to substantially decrease the population of the fish lens, also affecting the rest of the fauna of the oceans. For example, it is common that these networks also drag sea turtles, dolphins, sea birds and even sharks.

Can we stop this?

The Sustainable Development Goal 14: life underwater, it particularly focuses on the care and preservation of the oceans. As they point to the United Nations: “to Protect our oceans must remain a priority. The marine biodiversity is vital to the health of people and our planet. Marine protected areas must be managed effectively, as their resources, and should be put in place regulations that reduce over-fishing or marine pollution”.

Fight against the pollution of the waters of the oceans and overfishing passes through the awareness of governments and institutions of all countries of the world. End these harmful practices requires a serious proposal international regulations regulatory prohibit and criminalize, pollution, indiscriminate of the waters and overfishing of marine species.

Today, it is undeniable that the majority of people spend a large part of your time in front of screens and, in the case of young people, the use of social networks consumes an amount of time to grow.

It is important that, within social networks, the people who come to a large audience and talk about topics that are current and relevant both for society and for the planet, not only of their lives, travel, and products that send them the marks.

Each time there are more young people to get on their platforms content denouncing the critical situation that is hurting our planet. There are influential people from all over the world and from all walks of life, with more or less followers, but the point in common is their concern about the changes that must be made before it is too late to save the environment. In Spain and one of the influencers most relevant to talk about veganism, meat companies, air pollution, and the consequences that this will cause to the planet is Carlota Bruna which , thanks to its involvement has come to form part of the European Pact for the Weather. This barcelona-based, student of Nutrition and Dietetics, uses his Instagram as a point of information about their style of life, ways to reduce plastic and options that help to slow climate change.

Increasingly, leaders from all sectors are positioned in favor of the planet, rising to their networks, news, and tips to improve the world we live in, bringing that message to reach a number of people who otherwise would not be possible. An example of this is the actor and model Martiño Rivas, as well as the also actress Carolina Yuste or Georgina Amorós. It may seem that to upload a photo by inviting your followers to collect the plastics that you find on the beaches or mountains, which they visit, or to learn about climate change and what they can do to prevent it, are acts without relevance. However, the fact that one of the followers of these people will read and transmit it to your environment is a big deal, even more so taking into account the public relevance of many of these influencers.

At the international level, there are several models very important make an effort, and in their day-to-day take time to talk to his followers of the possible improvements that are in your hands. Blanca Padilla and Inka Williams are two examples of women who struggle to preserve the planet and put their networks as a showcase of what happens.

The majority of people mentioned in this article have highlighted sections on their profiles to inform you about the plastic problem, the industry of fast fashion, the pollution, how to adopt sustainable lifestyles and conscious living. To change our habits and to follow people defending the care of the planet and to make efforts to try to curb the climate crisis can seem an action of little relevance, but if we change the content that we consume daily, we can change habits and routines.

Do you want to join the large and small initiatives that mark a big change? Would you like to get your ideas and environmental projects in the pipeline but you are looking for support? On this International Day against Climate Change, we propose to move to action from our platform for Climate Action, a public space that gives you the tools to cope, we issue@s to this ecological crisis and climate.

Before anything.. What do we do from Climate Action?

Climate action is a platform created to put technology at the disposal of the fight against the climate crisis and ecological. This free space, free and participatory seeks to consolidate itself as a useful tool for activism and mobilization of environmental.

The main objective of this project is to encourage citizen participation in real-life through the interaction on digital media: creating, sharing and adding to actions that are taking place all over the world.

The situation in which we find ourselves is still a test of fire for the achievement of sustainability. In the year 2020 was the first overall decline since the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGS) in 2015, a trend has been maintained since then. The health crisis and economic causes of the pandemic caused by the expansion of COVID-19, in addition to the geopolitical risk, have caused the agenda 2030 for sustainability is affected severely.

Faced with this situation arises for Climate Action, an initiative that aims to serve as a common place for connecting people, organizations and initiatives in all those places where they are taking measures and are taking action to confront the climate crisis, we issue@s. This platform was created with the intention of serving all those people who choose to be part of this movement, tool-free and free to organize, learn and work networks that help to promote a real change.

How does it work and how can I join?

To be able to post and share your actions in Climate Action, justregister as a new@ user@. From here, you can publish all those activities and events (actions, meetings, trainings, demonstrations, interventions…) you know you are going to take place in the coming days, weeks, or months, as well as inform you of all the actions that are sharing the rest of user@s.

De esta forma, el mapa de acciones que ponemos a vuestra disposición, servirá tanto de punto referencia para conocer todo lo que se está haciendo a nivel activismo y movilización por el cambio climático, al mismo tiempo que de repositorio para numerosas iniciativas que puedan valer de inspiración y motivación para ser recreadas en otras partes del mundo.

Además, este espacio cuenta con los apartados “Clima Info” y una sección de stories (en el home de la página) donde iremos compartiendo toda aquella información y contenidos que puedan ser de interés o relevancia.

¿Qué hay de nuevo?

We’ve assembled a team that transform the platform and to keep you inform of all the latest news, initiatives, activities, projects and ideas that you can participate in, or create, as well as to give voice to your own projects, amplifying together the activism by the weather.

Follow us on @AccionxClima_ both in Instagram as on Twitter, where they come new news and changes that we are developing, always in collaboration and active listening of the ciudadan@s that you can do these projects.

June 5 marks World Environment Day, which takes more than half a century to be held up to become one of the global platforms with greater scope in favor of environmental causes. In specified date, we seek to bring to fore the protection and care of the environment as the purpose and common destiny international initiatives in which you can participate.

As the United Nations to warn, to solve the climate crisis in which we find ourselves, it is necessary that governments, the private sector, the Third Sector and other stakeholders to amplify and implement effective measures and immediate.

9 thresholds

Recently, on the eve of this day, we received a new touch of care: seven of the nine thresholds that define the environmental deterioration have been exceeded. An international investigation has determined that we have crossed red lines that will impact the well-being and safety of our earth system.

The report, published in the journal Nature, discusses different environmental indicators, with the objective of diagnosing the situation on our planet. According to experts, to have exceeded these limits can have serious consequences both for us and for future generations.

The nine boundaries analyzed in the research were predefined in 2009 by a wide group of scientists. Its purpose was to establish a map that frame the parameters in which human beings can live safely in the Land. It is the following:

The destruction of the ozone layer
Climate change
The destruction of the biosphere
Chemical pollution
The acidification of the oceans
The cycles of phosphorus and nitrogen
The consumption of fresh water
The changes in land use
Loads of atmospheric aerosols

Currently, the only two that still have not been exceeded are:

Chemical pollution
The acidification of the oceans

Why and how to take action for the climate

These data, although troubling, are not seeking to discourage the struggle for the care of the environment, but to invite to take urgent action to address these problems, call us, stressing that the mission for a sustainable life in harmony with nature is as relevant as ever.

Every contribution, action, idea, initiative and activity, as small as it seems to us, is important. Aligned with this thinking, we create the platform for Climate Action, which seeks to be a space for citizens and NGOS to share information, discuss and act on the climate crisis. This digital tool you have as a flag to encourage the creation of actions that are respectful and committed to the care of the environment.

We invite you to add, share, and take action for the climate we don!