DUBAI, 10 December 2006 — Shaping up the mindset of children at an early stage will help in carving out an environmentally responsible and devoted generation for a peaceful tomorrow, said Mohammed Abdul Kareem Julfar, assistant director general of Dubai Municipality for Finance and Properties Affairs.
He was delivering the opening speech at the fourth Global Environmental Youth Convention (GEYC 2006), which was kicked off at the Etisalat Academy in Dubai yesterday.
The convention, a global gathering of more than 600 students and their teachers and mentors from over 40 countries of the world, including 100 participants from the UAE, will be officially inaugurated today.
The convention, which will last until Wednesday and participated mainly by students in the age group of 15-18 years, will deliberate on global environmental issues with multi-faceted perspectives and methods.
The GEYC Dubai 2006, which is being organized by Dubai Municipality in co-operation with the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, Sweden, and the Euro-Arab Cooperation Center with the theme, Peace and Sustainable Development, will see the presentation of over 120 projects.
More than 1,700 students had registered for the online course Young Masters Program (YMP) on preventive environmental strategies in the “Road to GEYC Dubai 2006.”
The programs in the convention include project workshops, learning and interactive workshops for students and teachers, study visits, field works and special stage events, in addition to distribution of awards to Best Conducted Projects, Most Active Teams in Young Masters Program, Best Presented Project and Ultimate Online Learner.
