Capacity Building

Training

Training refers to the development of specific skills needed to a just transition, taking into account equitable access by different population groups. Effective training would build the capacities and workforce to avert and address climate impacts.

The integration of climate change learning in current and new training programmes and institutions (professional bodies, apprenticeship programmes, trade bodies, etc) should target groups with a key role, such as policy and decision makers, scientific, technical and managerial personnel in the public and private sectors, journalists, women, youth and community leaders at the local, national, subregional, regional, sectoral and international levels. It also requires the promotion of social dialogue, social protection and guarantee of better and dignified green jobs.

COLLABORATION & INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Public Awareness

Public awareness refers to the sensitization efforts to foster lasting behavior changes and address climate change by means of popular media, action campaigns, social media, digital platforms and local context responsive strategies.

Public awareness also pertains to matters of media literacy, for individuals to be able to understand and judge information delivered and placed into its proper context., fighting disinformation campaigns. It thrives on the partnership with journalists, civil society, local communities, and private sector to enhance the dissemination of public awareness-raising activities that cover the entire population.

Collaboration and international cooperation refers to the efforts to foster knowledge sharing and resource mobilization at the subnational, subregional, regional, sectoral, and international levels to enhance the collective ability to implement the Convention and the Paris Agreement, within the scope of ACE.