Yesterday, the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD) inaugurated the Eco Club Summit, the first summit of its kind in the Middle East that will host around 330 students and 110 teachers from 120 schools in Abu Dhabi Emirate. The summit will serve as a platform for youth to engage and network, asses and address their school’s environmental impact, and allow leading sustainable schools to share their experience. Beginning on 29 April, the Eco Club Summit, held at the Intercontinental Hotel in Abu Dhabi, will run for two consecutive days.

 

The summit will also bring together global environmental youth leaders and members from Abu Dhabi’s leading school eco clubs, fostering an open discussion, interactive brainstorming and the opportunity to share experiences.

 

The Eco Club Summit is part of EAD’s Sustainable Schools Initiative (SSI), which is supported by the Abu Dhabi Education Council (ADEC) and sponsored by BP. SSI aims to empower schools, teachers and their students to make positive environmental changes within their school. To assist them in making a positive impact, EAD provides the school community with training and resource materials necessary to assess their own environmental impact. EAD also encourages schools under the SSI to establish eco clubs and provides them with the support to keep them strong, such as exposing students to experiential learning through hands-on educational field trips.