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Programme

A Climate Strike Initiative

100% Clean Energy

Transition

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What are Clean Energy Agents?

☀● New change agents who will bring the change we need to stop the climate crisis and protect the future of the young ones in the world. ● They will gradually but massively stop fossil fuel consumption and start a global transition to clean energies. ● They know that the only way to ensure a good quality future is by cutting fossil fuels from our lives and turning to clean energies. ● They are active agents during the whole year, working hard to achieve specific goals related to: starting the transition to clean energies and keeping fossil fuels in the ground, such as:

Switching their school to clean energy!

Where’s all this CO2 coming from?Emissions by sector.

Global Greenhouse emissions by Sector.

Start the Global energy transition!

The Programme

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The Clean Energy Agents programme is an intensive training / action programme where you get up to speed on clean energy, plug into a global network of changemakers and start to make a change in your country, beginning in your own school. ☀

Programme● 2 month programme

You will invest around 3-4 hours of your time each week.

*There are prizes to win at the end of the programme, and the Missions are key to determining who will win those prizes.

● 8 ModulesWith specific task to achieve during the week

● CEA Missions*In parallel with the normal course, you are challenged to complete several CEA

Missions .

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Modules

● Week #1:Introduction and Getting to know each other

● Week #2: Clean energy technology

● Week #3: Researching basic information

● Week #4: Financing your installation

● Week #5: Involving teachers & parents

● Week #6: Working with the media

● Week #7: Energy transition policies

● Week #8 +Follow-up and next steps ☀

Module #2Clean Energy Technology

Learn about clean energy technologies. We will heavily focus on solar energy as the most practical in most places. Learn about solar heating and photovoltaics. Everything you need to know to start planning the clean energy installation at your school. You will be encouraged to specialize in other forms of clean energy if more appropriate for your locality. ☀

Module #3Researching basic Information

Find out about previous work/campaigns on clean energy in your country, legal framework, other organizations working on the topic, companies, prices, information about the energy being used in your school, how it is being administered and who can take decisions to change. ☀

Module #4Financing your installation.

We will look at how to calculate and compare the cost of a clean energy installation with dirty energy and explore different mechanisms to shoulder the big initial investment, including governmental support, fundraising etc. As opposed to fossil fuels, where you keep paying every time you burn, clean energy comes with a big upfront investment -but then it is basically free energy. ☀

Module #5Involving teachers & parents

In this very interactive module we will share experiences of involving teachers and parents and coach you through the process, from advice on basic communication skills to more elaborate mechanisms and activities to get these important stakeholders deeply involved in the project.☀

Module #6Working with the media

Solar panels on your school are not the end, but the beginning of the story of energy transition. And that story wants to be told. Here we help you through the simple steps of finding, contacting and working together with journalists, to spread the news about your successes and inspire many more to follow in your footsteps. ☀

Module #7Energy transition policies

Governments can drive or hinder the energy transition, depending on what policies they adapt. Here we will learn about best practices for promoting the energy transition and you will research what the state of affairs in your country is and how to ramp it up. ☀

Follow-up and next steps

We and you will keep in touch to follow up on your efforts and continue supporting where support is needed over the rest of the year to implement the different missions in June, September and November. Some of you will come to the conferences mentioned in the Prizes section, some will continue to start clean energy businesses and some will go on to start national campaigns to make clean energy the norm. ☀

Missions

Level 1● Give a presentation about Climate Strike.● Send a video thank you message to Defenders of Mother Earth.● Organize a student motion to divest your school from fossil fuels.● Deliver a petition to get your school off fossils.● Organize a Zero Emissions Day activity.● Organize a “Planting Party”.☀

Missions

Level 2● Get your school/university off fossil fuels.

● Deliver a petition for 100% clean energy in your city/state/country with at least 1000 signatures.

● Organize an action on Climate Strike Day, Nov 7th, 2016. ☀

Prizes

Those Clean Energy Agents that successfully achieve all the missions during the year will have the chance to receive one of the prizes:

● Solar panel plus inverter● Wind generator plus

inverter● Solar reading light● Participation in an

international conference/youth forum (tbc) ☀