This year the green color is more intense at COSMOPOLIS!  The festival is cooperating with the WWF and is supporting   the struggle towards a better environment and therefore a better world, through spectacular activities that are included in its rich program as we have known it through all those years. In this unit we are presenting two of the activities the WWF has undertaken to organize at this year’s COSMOPOLIS. The rest has already been included in the various units of the festival.    

CLIMATIC CHANGE SQUARE at Mehmet Ali Square    

The WWF is setting up a huge information pavilion in Mehmet Ali Square, where visitors can get information about whatever has to do with the climatic change. More specific, visitors will have the chance to get better informed about the environmental problems Kavala faces, through the info-leaflet by the WWF, to calculate their “energy print”, to play interactive games about the climatic change, to get advice on how to keep the planet alive, while parallel to all these, signatures against a possible hard coal energy plant in our area will be collected.

CLIMATIC CHANGE PANEL Thursday 19th July in Agios Nikolaos Quarte

Open debate (round table discussion) on the climatic change, with an emphasis on issues that occupy Kavala particularly, like the planned hard coal energy plant in Nea Karvali and reserving and storing up coal in Prinos (Isle of Thassos).

Speakers:

Achilleas Plitharas (responsible for WWF Greece Policy Campaigns) “Introducing hard coal to the energy mixture – myths and reality”

Georgios Chatzigiannis (Head of Geothermy and Thermometallic Waters at the Institute of Geology and Mineral Exploration “IGME”) “Reserving and storing up hard coal”

                                                        Eleftherios Ioannidis (Representative of Kozani Ecologic Movement) “Reality in Kozani & Kozani Ecologic Movement" 

                                                        Eftychios Sartzetakis (Assistant Professor at Macedonia University) “Financial issues of the climatic change”

                                                        Serafim Fyntanidis (Journalist) “The role of the mass media and the citizen’s society”