"Young people have all to gain to contribute to keeping climate change under control, because otherwise they will be forced to suffer its increasingly-serious consequences in the decades to come": Stavros Dimas, EU Commissioner for the Environment, explains the meaning of the awareness-raising campaign on climate change, launched by the Executive in May 2006, which will enter its final stage tomorrow. From June 5th to 8th, the campaign will take place in five states: Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and Bulgaria. Many initiatives have been scheduled until well into 2009. The campaign "relies on TV advertisements and a contest for young people", who are invited to "change their daily habits to reduce greenhouse gas emissions". According to Dimas, so far the campaign is "successfully making young people aware of this threat and showing them how to fight against it by taking ecological choices in their everyday life". The schedule of events includes a bike ride in Bucharest and stalls at the Ekofestival 2008 in Prague and at the Magic Sport Festival in Hungary. In all countries, plastic bags can be swapped for reusable cotton bags.
