The Ecowatch Club
Description
The Ecowatch Club in each school are made up of motivated students and teachers. There are weekly meeting at each branch during which environmental lectures/seminars are presented to further boost the members' knowledge on climate change and its impact. On last Friday of every month, a local government sensitization seminar is put together for schools in the local government area. This local government sensitization is rotational from one local government area to another. Members of the Club are also encouraged to carryout individual or collective community project(s) on Climate Change mitigation in their schools or immediate environment. Prizes and awards are given to best projects of the year during The Ecowatch day celebration, which comes up every August 15.
Each branch of The Ecowatch Club has an Executive comprising of the President, Vice President, General Secretary, Assistant General Secretary, Treasurer, Provost and Staff Adviser. Apart from the Staff Adviser, all members of the Executive are Students elected at congress. The Executive of each branch report directly to the National Executive Coordinator, who is the initiator of the club.
SDGS & Targets
Goal 13
Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
13.1
Strengthen resilience and adaptive capacity to climate-related hazards and natural disasters in all countries
13.1.1
Number of deaths, missing persons and directly affected persons attributed to disasters per 100,000 population
13.1.2
Number of countries that adopt and implement national disaster risk reduction strategies in line with the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015–2030
13.1.3
Proportion of local governments that adopt and implement local disaster risk reduction strategies in line with national disaster risk reduction strategies
13.2
Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning
13.2.1
Number of countries with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
13.2.2
Total greenhouse gas emissions per year
13.3
Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning
13.3.1
Extent to which (i) global citizenship education and (ii) education for sustainable development are mainstreamed in (a) national education policies; (b) curricula; (c) teacher education; and (d) student assessment
13.a
Implement the commitment undertaken by developed-country parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to a goal of mobilizing jointly $100 billion annually by 2020 from all sources to address the needs of developing countries in the context of meaningful mitigation actions and transparency on implementation and fully operationalize the Green Climate Fund through its capitalization as soon as possible
13.a.1
Amounts provided and mobilized in United States dollars per year in relation to the continued existing collective mobilization goal of the $100 billion commitment through to 2025
13.b
Promote mechanisms for raising capacity for effective climate change-related planning and management in least developed countries and small island developing States, including focusing on women, youth and local and marginalized communities
13.b.1
Number of least developed countries and small island developing States with nationally determined contributions, long-term strategies, national adaptation plans and adaptation communications, as reported to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
SDG 14 targets covered
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