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Young people around the world love games and coding. An initiative called climate coding is helping them apply these passions to climate solutions.
Koen Timmers is the co-founder of Take Action Global, a free three-week program nonprofit.
Timmers: “It has creativity, critical thinking, problem solving and these types of new skills.”
The program has been open for the second year and can open courses around the world. Each chooses a problem – such as water shortage, deforestation or biodiversity loss.
They use technology to share solutions. For example, last year, some students used Minecraft to design a city that operates with clean energy.
Some learned HTML encoding to create information about climate change websites. and other programming equipment for monitoring soil moisture.
Courses share their projects on online platforms.
Timmers: “So other teachers and other students in other countries can learn from it…and ultimately, appreciate each other’s solutions and work.”
This year, courses from more than 100 countries are taking place. Therefore, the program is helping to build a global community of young people who are eager to apply their skills to climate solutions.
Report Credit: Sarah Kennedy/Chavobart Digital Media
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