EU launches campaign to promote responsible green behaviour in SL

October 3, 2023 at 12:51 PM

The European Union (EU) Delegation to Sri Lanka has launched its campaign “Let’s Go Green” in the run up to the COP28 Summit, the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference. 

Issuing a statement, the EU Delegation said the campaign was launched on October 01, 2023 and will continue until November 10, 2023.

The campaign aims to create awareness and advocate for responsible green behaviour around plastic usage, waste reduction and energy saving among consumers.

The campaign will include a series of competitions and awareness activities primarily aimed at school and university students encouraging them to debate and invent their own solutions to current issues around Sri Lanka’s environmental challenges. 

The campaign also hopes to encourage green behaviour among businesses, bringing stakeholders from the private sector together to shed light on the importance of adopting circular business practices and integrating holistic solutions to reduce waste.

Green economic recovery is a top priority for the EU in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with several projects implemented in both countries to support sustainable tourism, marine conservation and biodiversity protection. 

These initiatives are carried out in the context of the European Green Deal which is a set of policy initiatives by the European Union with the overarching aim of making the planet greener. (NewsWire)