The nonprofit seeks to help people vote in elections.
He is also a fellow at Yale and works with the United Nations.
No two days are the same for Saad Amer, the 26-year-old cofounder of Plus1Vote. Some days he s creating Instagram filters to educate people on the climate crisis; the next, he s helping send a million text messages to get young people to vote. Launched in 2018, his nonprofit seeks to improve voter turnout in national elections using social media to create campaigns and engage with young people.
The organization often partners with leaders like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and former Vice President Al Gore to host seminars educating people on climate change and voting rights. During the 2018 midterm elections, Plus1Vote launched a campaign that was supported and shared on social media by Alyssa Milano and Jimmy Kimmel. Plus1Vote also teamed up with the Women s March to help amplify the voices of people of color.
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Vietnam stands side by side with India in COVID-19 fight: leaders
Vietnam always stands side by side with India in the fight against COVID-19, the Vietnamese leaders affirmed on April 28.
In their messages of sympathy sent to their Indian counterparts Ram Nath Kovind and Narendra Modi, State President Nguyen Xuan Phuc and Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh said they share difficulties faced by the Indian people in the fierce battle against COVID-19 in the context that the pandemic is developing complicatedly around the world.
Thursday, April 29, 2021
In May of 2001, NDI proposed a new idea: support our long term partner, South Africa’s Ministry of Environment, to help local and provincial governments understand climate change; expand civil society and local communities participation across the country on these issues; and increase overall public awareness and understanding about South Africa’s environmental fragility as a result of climate change.
At the time, climate change decisions were managed by heads of state and guided by the national commitments they made about carbon emissions and credit swaps. NDI early on recognized the disconnect between international capitals around the world engaging in big stakes climate decisions, and the role of local politicians, citizens and legislators, who could sustain climate action when national governments changed.
2021-04-29 02:05:31 GMT2021-04-29 10:05:31(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KAMPALA, April 28 (Xinhua) Ugandan lawmakers have passed the national climate change bill to cut greenhouse gas emissions and tackle the climate crisis, authorities said on Wednesday.
The framework bill will provide for climate change response measures, participation in climate mechanisms, and measuring of emissions and financing for climate change actions, among others, Beatrice Atim Anywar, minister of state for environment, told Xinhua by phone.
The bill, which now awaits presidential assent, was overwhelmingly passed at the country s parliamentary in the capital here on Tuesday. The bill is timely in tackling the climate crisis. It provides for institutional arrangements for coordinating and implementing climate change response measures in Uganda, said Anywar.
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