Main topic: HOW TO COPE WITH CLIMATE CHANGE
SUBTOPICS (allocated to four committees):
COMMITTEE 1: Ecology
COMMITTEE 2: Health
COMMITTEE 3: Human Right to Life
COMMITTEE 4: Youth participation
SUBTOPICS (allocated to four committees):
- C1 - Ecology
- C2 - Health
- C3 - Human Right to Life
- C4 - Youth participation
COMMITTEE 1: Ecology
- New plants and animals threatening the existing flora and fauna (spring herb, beetles, mosquitos, insects, parasites and vermins…)
- New environmental conditions (temperature extremes) for plants (i.e. chestnuts)
- Change of cityscape (urban gardening, i.e. parasites destroying palm trees in Merano…)
- Impact on agriculture (i.e. fruit production at higher altitudes i. e. apples, different varieties of apples, new pests)
- Natural hazards
COMMITTEE 2: Health
- Increasing number of warm nights;
- Negative impact on fragile and older persons and newborns
- Problems with storing banked blood
- Influx of tropical diseases
- Heatwaves, tropical nights
- Virus caring insects
- pollution
COMMITTEE 3: Human Right to Life
- Change of living conditions due to climate change (i.e. water management generally and in episodes of draught)
- Migration as a consequence of climate change/Climate refugee
- Sustainability over generations
- Right to live in healthy conditions
- Laws and binding fines for protection programs (i.e. alpine convention is not compulsory)
- Alps as a border
COMMITTEE 4: Youth participation
- Dealing with common goods endangered by climate change
- Codetermination bodies
- Participatory models
- Political education
- Sociodemographic change
- Cooperation between various stakeholders
- Youth participation against climate change