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Daddy You can Save the Planet!

A Colouring Book and Games for kids who want to educate their parents

Geneva, 30 October 2007 -- Saving the planet starts early in the morning by taking a shower instead of a bath, closing the tap when shaving, repairing water leakages, recycling paper, not overheating… All these little gestures that we sometimes forget and which our children remind us to do.

Following the latest Environment for Europe ministerial conference, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) is more invested than ever in the environmental cause. To this end UNECE publishes a colouring book Daddy You can Save the Planet! A book for “kids who want to educate their parents”.

Introducing the adorable Juliette and her improbable koala, we follow their adventures as they fight to educate Juliette’s father to simple environmental gestures.

Since the more the better, the colouring book comes with a CD-Rom. Through interactive, instructive and fun games like a quiz, a puzzle, a memory game, and a “spot the error” game, children from 6 to 96 can check and improve their environmental knowledge.

This initiative is just another step in the United Nations Decade of Sustainable Development that started in 2005 and aims at integrating the principles, values, and practices of sustainable development into all aspects of education and learning.

For further information please contact:

UNECE Information Service
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland

Phone: +41(0)22 917 44 44
Fax: +41(0)22 917 05 05
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.unece.org/highlights/youth_corner/youth_corner.htm