In a world where our political leaders have failed in recent months to reach an international agreement concerning climate change the role that individuals and civil society organisations play in ensuring ustainability of our planet is more important than ever.As organisations that actively promote the international mobility of young people, especially with the opportunities offered by Youth in Action and invariably by plane, the partners in this project recognise 4he need to standardise the introduction, in all stages of our activities (planning, implementation and follow up), mechanisms to reduce the environmental impact of our youth exchanges. This means not only related to the travel we use but all resources we use in implementation of the activity eg. paper, food, electricity etc.This training course involving 3Ö youth leaders from 12 countries will introduce participants to theconcept of Carbon Footprints Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. footprint how to calculate theFootprint of an.activity or action based on the carbon emissions it produces and give ideas and bestpractices example of how organisations can introduce carbon offsetting into the "budgets" of theactivities. In this way the participants will have the capacity when planning future international youthexchanges to measure the overall environmental impact of the activity taking into account the form oftravel, electricity used, paper consumed, water consumed, food and how it is packaged and fromwhere it is transported to the venue etc. Following this analysis the participants will then be trained toknow how to use concrete methods and tools to contribute to ustainability in a positive wayand so balance the negative impact of the activity creating where possible 0 carbon footprints forthe overall activity.