This is an important year. The UN concluding Millenium Development Goals with success. One of the main organizations of UN, UNESCO worked on sustainable development education on the scope of Earth Charter on UN International Decade of Sustainable Development Education 2004-2014. Now. We are ready to learn about new Sustainable Development Goals. I think this goals will effect our youth programs and all environment and nature based activities. On every international day, year, decade I look mainly to Awareness campaigns by main UN authority organizing the event and campaigns by Global and local NGOs. Learn about them and try to make some simple avtivities to participate. Some time leaders like the issuu sometimes not. Now I will go on the same approach for remaining avents on 2015. And beyond. I will colect the proceedings by scouts patrols troops groups. ENVİRONMENTCOP 12 desertifcation conferance Now preperations for COP 12 of the Desertification is going on and there is 3 awareness programs on the agenda AWARENESS PROGRAM 1 Proverbs on land and soil is the first one. "Upon this handful of soil our survival depends. Husband it and it will grow our food, our fuel, and our shelter and surround us with beauty. A buse it and the soil will collapse and die, taking humanity with it" From Vedas Sanskrit Scripture – 1500 BC Humanity has lived and depended on land since ancient times. Wise men and women from different places and cultures have offered words of wisdom on how precious land and soil are to our fundamental being. They had different ways of saying so. A sample of such proverbs provided by staff at the UNCCD secretariat show how deeply the land and soil are rooted in our well-being. " 신토불이(身土不二)”, which means, “Body and Land are not two but one" was provided by Kug-Bo Shim, Republic of Korea. "Кто земле дает, тому земля втройне отдает" states, “To the one, who gives to the land, the land gives back three times more.” Russian Proverb provided by Komila Nabiyeva. “Nifae na mvua nikufae na jua”, translates into, "Do me a favor in the rainy season and I'll payback in the dry season." Kiswahili saying in Central and Eastern Africa provided by Wagaki Mwangi, Richard Byron-Cox from St. Vincent and the Grenadines "When you have land, you have the world" and in Germany you say "Der Segen der Erde zum Brot uns werde" which means "It is the soil, which gives us bread". Do YOU have such proverbs or sayings in your language? Tell us, and we will share them with others on this page. Send an e-mail to newsbox(at)unccd.int including the following: • Name • Country • Your language • Proverb you know in your language • English translation • Comment • Ata sözü içibout • • Fotoğraf yarışması için Youth programs, award schemes like World Scout Environment award and many other thing on our environment activities. AWARENESS PROGRAM 2 The other one is a photografic competition by host organization of COP 12 I AM SURE MANY TROOPS SCOUTS İNVOLVED TO CARE THE LAND AND SOİL and have many photos on hand I have many from our UN FAO Yunnga challenges on soil. Namely Soil Challenge award of above mentioned organization. 2015/036 - 2015/396 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion International “Desertification” Photo Contest - Contest Dates:: 01.10.2015 Organizer Institution: Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion The other one is a photografic competition by host organization of COP 12 2015/036 - 2015/396 Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion International “Desertification” Photo Contest - Contest Dates:: 01.10.2015 The information a is as follows NAME OF THE CONTEST: “InternationalDesertification Photo Contest” SUBJECT OF THE CONTEST: Fight against land degradation, desertification and drought PURPOSE OF THE CONTEST: All of the areas throughout the world under the risk of desertification constitute the large part of the Earth’s surface. These lands are the livelihood and the habitat of a large part of the world’s population. Combating desertification effectively is closely related to ensuring the sustainable use of water resources and biodiversity with their prevention, and climate change and global warming. Desertification, along with climate change and the loss of biodiversity were identified as the greatest challenges to sustainable development during the 1992 Rio Earth Summit. Established in 1994, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is the sole legally binding international agreement linking environment, development and the promotion of healthy soils. The Convention’s 195 Parties work to alleviate poverty in the dry lands, maintain and restore the land’s productivity, and mitigate the effects of drought. The 12th Conference of the Parties (COP 12) to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification will be held in Turkey from the 12th to 24October 2015. On this occasion, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion is holding a photography contest. The contest is organized in cooperation with the Federation Internationale de l’art Photographique (FIAP), Photographic Arts Federation of Turkey(PAFT), Ankara Photographic Art Society (PAS)and United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification(UNCCD) secretariat. The objective of the photo contest is to send a strong visual message to the world that combating desertification can bring multiple benefits to our sustainable future. CONTEST SECTIONS: The contest will be held in one “Free” category. CONTEST RULES: • Participation to the contest is free of charge. • The contest is open to any photographer, amateur or professional, of any country except the contest organization committee, jury members and PAFT representatives. • Each photographer may submit up to 4 (four) digital (numeric) colored photo. • Except basic adjustments (brightness, contrast, color), photos structure must be unchanged. Infraction procedure will be executed for the photos of which any of the existing objects are erased or there is addition of any object which doesn’t exist in the original picture. • Participants, must confirm, declare and undertake that s/he is the rightful owner of the photo uploaded on the photo contest web page and that s/he obtained all necessary permissions and third party releases. On the contrary will be considered as an infraction. • All kind of intervention and changes on the photo posted for the contest, intended to mislead the committee and to show the photo as if it belonged to him/herself, will be considered as an infraction of rules. • With the sole act of submitting his/her images or files to a salon under FIAP Patronage, the entrant accepts without exception and with no objection that the submitted images can be investigated by FIAP to establish if these obey to FIAP regulations and definitions even if the entrant is not a member of FIAP; that FIAP will use any means at its disposal for this undertaking; that any refusal to cooperate with FIAP or any refusal to submit the original files as captured by the camera, or failure to provide sufficient evidence, will be sanctioned by FIAP and that in case of sanctions following the non compliance with FIAP regulations, the name of the entrant will be released in any form useful to inform the breaches of the rules. It is recommended to leave the EXIF data in the submitted files intact in order to ease eventual investigations. • Submitted photos shall not be submitted in the past UNCDD photo contests. • The award, degree and all kind of gains of the participant identified as infracted the rules, will be taken back. The place of the cancelled award will be left blank. FIAP will be informed of the situation. • The participation of persons who have breach the rules in accordance with the PAFT Competition Policies, to PAFT approved competitions, will be restricted for 1 (one) year. In case of second infraction of the persons who have received a penalty before, according to TSFS Competition Policies, their participation to PAFT approved competitions will be restricted indefinitely. • Participants existing in the FIAP restriction list or those whom restriction decision is continuing according to the justifications described above, cannot join this contest. • The Organizing Committee may request from the entrant, to submit the original file of the photo which have win the award or the exhibition. • The result of the contest will be announced in the Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs website, www.ormansu.gov.tr/ , The General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion (GDCDE) websitehttp://www.cem.gov.tr,on thePAFT’s website http://www.tfsf.org.tr,http://tfsfonayliyarismalar.organd onUNCDD’s website http://www.unccd.int. NAMING AND SENDING OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS: • As the contest will be realized with an online uploading system, other alternate shipment (e-mail, cargo, hand-delivered etc.) will not be accepted. • The contest’s pictures and membership online entries could be done only on the websites below with following the necessary instructions. In Turkish >http://www.tfsfonayliyarismalar.org/ In English>http://www.tfsfonayliyarismalar.org/en/ • You must first be a member before uploading pictures in the corresponding page. Your membership will be finalized after clicking the activation link sent to your e-mail address. • Members before could use their olduser name and password. • Sizing and naming operations of the photos to be uploaded for the participation must be done before and the files must be ready and uploaded in one session. • Photos to be uploaded must be without passé partout and borderless. There should be no information such as the name, signature, logo, dates of entrants on the photo. • The images to be submitted for the contest must be jpg/jpeg format, saved under 8-12 compression quality and should not exceed 4 MB and not be less than 2 MB in size. • Name of each image file must be maximum 31 characters. Don’t use letters as Ç, Ğ, İ, Ö, Ş, Ü, ç, ı, ğ, ö, ş, ü. English letters and underscore ( _ ) can be used. • All letters except the country code and letters for the section definition must be lowercase letters. Naming: 1. step:Write the country code in the first two characters of the file (“TR” for Turkey). Please refer to the country codes on: http://www.fiap.net/docs/divers/ISO2-en.pdf 2. step:The name of the author should be up to 5 characters (for example for Ömer Eril YILMAZ write omery or oeril or erily) 3. step:Next character should be the first initial of the section (DigitalOpen Color>OC) 4. step:The number of the photo’s range should be written in figures (from 1 to 4) and then an underscore ( _ ) should be added. 5. step:The photo’s name should be written after the underscore, with not exceeding the total character number. For example Ömer Eril Yılmaz 1st photo called “Lake in Way of Desertification” must be written like “TRomeryOC1_collesen_gol.jpg” or for his 2nd photo called “Steppe” to write “TRomeryOC2_bozkir.jpg”… • In case of problems occurred during the membership or submission to the contest arising from the system or from the user, the problem will be fixed as soon as possible by giving information to the contact address onlineyarismalar@tfsf.org.tr and the user will be informed. This e-mail address may be used only for uploading a picture related problem; sending photos to this e-mail address doesn’t mean joining the contest and the participation is absolutely not acceptable. • The Regulatory Authority won’t be responsible of possible problems that may be caused by uploading pictures. • Whatever is the name under which is uploaded the sent photos, they will have automatically a code number and will enter into jury evaluating system with those numbers. The Jury can’t see in anyway the name of the image or the participant. ● All entrants can use their scores and won exhibitions in their position applications in related institutions because such scores were approved by International Organizations. AWARDS: FIAP Gold Medal+1300 USD FIAP SilverMedal + 900 USD FIAP BronzeMedal + 500 USD FIAP Special Mansion (10) (180 USD each) PAFTSpecial Mansion Exhibition (Maximum 50) (40 USD each) FIAP Best Photographer Award (To be given to most awarded and exhibited photographer.) http://www.tfsfonayliyarismalar.org/en/yarisma_detay_bilgi.asp?s=164 food print http://www.reduse.org/en/blog/infographic-land-footprint Republic of Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs General Directorate of Combating Desertification and Erosion International “Desertification” Photo Contest - Contest Dates:: 01.10.2015 AWARENESS PROGRAM 3 What is the footprint of your food? The “ecological footprint” is a tool that measures your personal contribution to the human consumption of resources of the Earth. This footprint can be expressed in terms of how much land is used by your activities. The ecological footprint measures the consumption of resources of a person, a state or of the whole human community. A footprint is considered sustainable when the amount of resources consumed and the amount of pollution produced in one year equals the amount that the Earth can produce, regenerate and respectively absorb in one year. Currently the ecological footprint of the entire human population in terms of land cover is estimated by some at about one and half times the size of planet Earth. Expressed in terms of time this means that Earth will need one and half years to produce the amount of resources, and to absorb the amount of pollution that is consumed and produced by us in one year. A constant and long term overuse of our planet's resources will lead to the loss of biodiversity, to food, water and energy scarcity, and to an increased vulnerability to environmental and climatic catastrophes and progressing climate change. The UNCCD Capacity Building Marketplace has prepared a list of calculators and readings below, for you to assess your own consumption. By reading the materials and calculator provided, you will be able to explore in depth the issues of land use, food production and the connected use and overuse of resources. Do you know your land footprint? Every product comes from the land in one way or another. This consumption of land is often called “virtual land” because it is not visible in the final product, even though a lot of resources are used in the production. Project REdUSE calculated the land footprint of many products. The land footprint of one bicycle is 3.4m2. The land footprint of 1 kg of beef is 22m2. • Check out the infographic Calculate your own footprint The Global Footprint network offers you a footprint calculator which allows you to see your national and personal footprint, depending on your country of residence. The calculator is based on the National Footprint Accounts data for selected nations. In addition to food there are also other categories that can be assessed for impact, such as shelter, mobility, goods and services. This calculator is aligned with the international Ecological Footprint standards which were adopted in 2006 by the Standards Committee and its partner organizations, in order to ensure that footprint studies are both credible and consistent. More about the methodology used can be found on their website. • Footprint Calculator Another calculator offered is the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) footprint calculator, which assesses the footprint for food, home, personal stuff (like appliances and gadgets) and travel choices. It shows the footprints in terms of the number of planets used. The calculator starts with a very comprehensive chart and infographics explaining the issue of ecological footprint, and then proceeds to a quiz upon which you can see what that footprint would amount to, if everybody would be consuming at the same rate. • WWF Footprint calculator (EN) • WWF Footprint Rechner (DE) Other related resources If you are looking for more resources and reading materials regarding the issue of environmental footprint and the impact of consumption on land, water, CO2 release and other indicators, please find more materials here: Soil Atlas: Facts and figures about Earth, land and fields • The land in numbers • Towards a definition of global sustainable land use • Governance screening of global land use • Urban food systems and global sustainable land use • Global sustainable land use • Global land use analysis Exhibition in Bonn, Germany As part the events to celebrate the World Day to Combat Desertification (WDCD) on the 17th of June 2015, the UNCCD Capacity Building Marketplace is organizing an exhibition in Bonn, Germany at the University’s Nassestrasse food canteen to demonstrate and visualize the environmental impact and cost for the production of the food you are eating. • Capacity Building Marketplace WDCD event AWARENESS PROGRAM 4 UN FAO YUNGA YOUTH AND United Nationd Global Alliance act,vi,ties. There is 7 different chalenges made for childrean and youth 7 years of age and up. One ofthese challenges is very important. It is Soil Chalenge badge . As most of you know. This year is marke ad International Year of soil and there will be more celebrationd on 5th of december International Day of Scoıl. You can start it noe. Use our information posters and make some of the activities in your camps nd get the UN certificate. You may by the badge from WAGGGS shop Yunga also have more for you YUNGA Activities YUNGA acts as a gateway for children and youth from around the world to participate in the activities and initiatives of the United Nations. YUNGA partners are working together on many different projects engaging young people in order to build a better world. The key principles underlying these activities are: • Raising awareness about various global sustainability issues. • Empowering young people to change their behaviour and take action. ...Join in! Find out more about our different activities by clicking on the links below: • YUNGA Resources • Capacity development • Creating global citizens • Giving youth a voice • International coordination & action • Country programmes • Mini-grants • Creating behavioural change • Drawing competitions See our work on Country programs Please post your actiities on scout org as a progect or scout news but don’t forget to add your total service time in the activity to make it a part of messengers of peace service projects for a beter tomorrow Attachments Sustainable development goals in english