| As Al Gore's small masterpiece, "An Inconvenient | | | | planet. Some of these organisations are offshoots |
| Truth", looms across our screens, the scourge of | | | | of larger institutions: for instance the United |
| environmental pollution and climate change | | | | Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has a |
| becomes more and more inescapable. While large | | | | children's education program called TUNZA , which |
| international oil companies have been accused of | | | | works in partnership with children across the globe |
| feeding us propaganda for years about the real | | | | and aims to equip them with information on how |
| effects of environmental damage, environmental | | | | to best treat the planet. Children are represented |
| awareness has been growing rapidly in many | | | | by a Junior Board, which is elected every two |
| corners of society, and one of these increasingly | | | | years at the same time as UNEP's TUNZA |
| visible social groups taking a stand is children. | | | | International Children's Conference. By creating an |
| The number of children's environmental | | | | interactive website, which includes a cartoon strip |
| awareness and activity groups has been rising | | | | called "Ozzy Ozone, Defender of Our Planet", |
| rapidly in the last decade, with many taking a | | | | TUNZA's approach is exemplary in its global |
| more and more active role in protests. However, | | | | outreach and ongoing commitment to keep |
| most kids' environmental organisations | | | | children engaged with the problem of climate |
| concentrate on education as the key tool in the | | | | change. |
| learning process towards a better future for our | | | | |