Overview
- Location
Greece
- Sector
Education, research
General Information
A free and internet-based research group, which initially started as informal and independent Group for young scientists & students. Our Group aims at the scientific understanding, studying and informing the public of the factors, which play an important role in the increasing & reducing of cancer. The main goal of the CPRGGreece is the study of cancer prevention, through a multi-disciplinary prism of multiple scientific fields (health, social, educational and humanitarian sciences) and specializations (clinical medicine, pharmacology, psychology, nutrition and dietetics, sociology, stress science, biology, chemistry, statistics, epidemiology, economics, community health, pedagogics, etc).
Sustainability Mission
As an NGO whose goal is to unite scientific research and social entrepreneurship in favor of cancer prevention, we consider it our obligation to let all our members and the public in Greece know the principles of the European Climate Pact.
GHG Emissions
Our actions – the Pathway
We are pledging to taking actions to, of any form, to protect the environment as an NGO to be completed by November 2023:
- Have a target to reduce plastic consumption
- Promote the EU Ecolabel with our clients, customers and/or suppliers
- Have an employee engagement strategy to support and contribute to achieving the organization’s climate and environmental goals
Status date: Submitted (29/11/2022)
Data source: Self-reported
More information on the target:
• Within a defined time-period we will organize online and live meetings, in order to inform - through live presentations from hygienists, health promoters, dietitians, doctors - about the effects of plastic abuse, both on the environment and on Human Health. We will link this information to the incidence of cancer and give the public practical advice on reducing plastic consumption, based on what applies in the EU and Greece. At the end, we will distribute a self-evaluation form to the audience, so we can check statistically how many understood what they learned. We will publish these statistics, as well as any other related questionnaire research we may do as an NGO for cancer prevention and the environment.
• We will include a hyperlink for EU ECOLABEL on our website so that all our visitors are informed about EU "green products". We will also regularly publish information about EU ECOLABEL products through our social media. In addition, we will inform about these products in all the conferences, webinars, workshops and presentations that we will implement. We will share this information with each of our members, and through paper or online updates. This action has no time limit, we can do it continuously with the aim of increasing the use of EU Ecolabel products! Importantly, our members are mostly 18-34 years old, so the younger generation will have a leading role in learning about green products!
• Both to the BoD Members of the NGO, and to our hundreds of volunteers, we will set basic instructions for climate protection. We are already implementing many of them and will increase others. For example, but not limited to, (a) avoiding diesel cars and replacing them with walking or cycling (we have almost all of our actions online, which helps with this); (b) reducing the use of plastic equipment and non-recyclable products and (c) reducing the use of paper (all our processes will be done online, with no materials required), (d) we will regularly send an pledge form to our Board members - like an agreement between the members of the NGO - where they will agree to transfer the value of environmental protection to other people!