TCPI to train 250 presenters on climate change issues
Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 04/06/2010 6:43 PM
The Climate Project Indonesia (TCPI), a non-profit organization set up by Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US vice president Al Gore, will train 250 Indonesian people on the climate change issues.
The free workshop will be held in Jakarta on April 24.
The selected participants would become connectors who would share issues of climate change with the public across Indonesia.
As of Tuesday, just two days after the vacancy was posted at www.surveymonkey.com/s/connecter, about 500 people registered to join the workshop.
TCPI coordinator Amanda Katili, who is also former expert staff on climate change for the minister of the environment, said the registered participants included civil servants, business people and journalists.
“We are surprised to get such a huge response,” Amanda told The Jakarta Post.
The selected participants should voluntarily target to promote climate change issues and their impacts to at least five community groups a year.
Al Gore trained around 50 Indonesians to be presenters on climate change in Australia last year.
The presenters trained by Gore have already spread information on climate change to around 1 million people in Indonesia including dozens of universities across the archipelago.
