Climate: young Malagasy mobilize to rethink the world after

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For two days, the Indian Ocean Climate Network is organizing workshops in three major cities of Madagascar to rethink the economy and consumption patterns in this period of pandemic and global crisis.

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Young Malagasy people are mobilizing for sustainable development and the fight against climate change.

Friday and until Saturday afternoon is a workshop called “The world after.

Two days to rethink the economy and consumption patterns in this period of pandemic and global crisis.

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With our correspondent in Antananarivo

, Laetitia Bezain

Organized by the Indian Ocean Climate Network, this workshop brings together young people from three major cities of the country: Antananarivo, Tamatave and Diego Suarez.

The creativity and innovation of Malagasy youth has its place in providing new solutions that respect the environment, explains this platform, which brings together around thirty associations in Madagascar but also in the Comoros, Mayotte and Reunion.

Sorting, composting, garbage bins with instructions ... On large panels, novices or young people more aware of sustainable development are working on solutions to meet the thorny challenge of waste management.

A problem that concerns the whole of the Big Island and that the public authorities are struggling to resolve.

Aware of these impacts, at the age of 27, Andritiana Rafalimanana, after her studies, embarked on sustainable entrepreneurship with the transformation of food products.

He called his small company “Lucide Transformateur Entrepreneur”. 

“You always have to be aware that once you transform a product, there will always be waste.

So my small company is moving towards the production of organic products and in the long term plans to recycle the oils from the crisps to transform them into soaps or even into candles.

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Drought, coastal erosion, marine pollution ... the effects of climate change and the destruction of the environment are already very palpable on the Big Island, these young people point out.

This is what points out Delphine Berthet, one of the founders of the Indian Ocean Climate Network: 

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When we talk about climate change, the government, and even when we ask people, they will only talk about reforestation.

They will not tackle the issue of climate change and sustainable development as a whole.

For example, during the workshop we did this morning, many issues of urbanization and therefore of waste and rising waters in Tana emerged, issues of the oceans, which are not taken into account at all.

We never hear about the ocean problem.

We only hear about flora, reforestation.

This idea of ​​the next world is to ensure that we do not go back.

Thanks to this epidemic, there have been a lot of entrepreneurs who have developed their ideas.

We have seen a lot of the emergence of small initiatives and we would like that to continue and also that young people be heard by the government because their ideas are never really taken into account in decisions. 

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The platform intends to organize in the coming days workshops in other large cities of the country, in Majunga, Tulear and Fianarantsoa.

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