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PROGRAMMES YOUTH AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLES

It is relevant to create a citizen culture whose priority theme is the environment, natural resources and humanity preservation, and that also generates bonds of participation among youth with the aim of maintaining the world under fair conditions towards the environment.


Given the ability that the youth have to conceive life styles that occasionally influence on grown-ups and the importance of this stage that forms attitudes and behaves in the future, the initiatives developed in the framework of this Programme pretend that young people find and know the viable responses around production and distribution of goods and services and its effects in the environment; as well as promoting change towards sustainable life styles through the development of communication tools focus on creating conscious around environmental problems related to consumption. On the other hand, it favours the use of the purchasing power of the consumer youth with the objective of encouraging producers to develop products that are respectful with the environment.  

The IADS, acknowledging that are the youngsters the main characters of change, created this Programme to move forward in the construction of sustainable development, starting from the initiatives generated from and for the youth..

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