Climate Fresk is a powerful participatory tool for providing quality climate education. It is delivered within a group setting within an organisation or local community. The upcoming Climate Fresk workshop is for anyone who wants to make a difference by helping to tackle climate change despite not being a climate scientist. This event will be held on Sunday 8 December from 3 to 6 pm at The Franciscan Community Centre in Triq ix-Xambekk, Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq.

In just 3 hours, the collaborative Climate Fresk workshop will teach you the fundamental science behind climate change and empower you to take action.

The international Climate Fresk initiative is built on the assumption that, to take action and build solutions, we first need to understand the problem. Around 162 countries have joined the Climate Fresk movement with around 86,000 volunteers trained and accredited to run such workshops.

In Malta, the NGO INTEKO is collaborating with Climate Fresk International and HSBC Malta Foundation to organise a Climate Fresk workshop led by two trained HSBC Bank staff who are accredited to run such workshops locally. The forthcoming Climate Fresk workshop is the first one that HSBC Bank employees are delivering on a voluntary basis at community level.

The Climate Fresk is a game about climate change created by Cedric Ringenbach, a French engineer and professor. The game involves the placing of 42 cards in order of cause and effect to create a collage. All the information and data contained in the cards come from published scientific reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - a group of experts mandated by the United Nations to provide a summary of all the available scientific knowledge about climate change for policy makers. IPCC experts base their reports on an evaluation of thousands of peer-reviewed papers. Thus, IPCC reports represent a scientific consensus on the subject of climate and climate change. 

The Climate Fresk scientific game is fun, visual and collaborative. Participants are the ones thinking, discussing, debating with the support of trained and accredited faclitators. The workshop lasts 3 hours and has 4 phases: 

-          the scientific reflection phase (1.5 hours).
-          the creativity phase where participants step back to creatively appropriate the concepts and create colourful visuals (20 minutes).
-          talk about emotions (10 minutes).
-          discussion on how to act and react to the realities presented, both on an individual level as well as on a collaborative collective basis.

Registration: email to - [email protected]   or message to: 77401631