Young women to join Arctic sailing voyage with Greenpeace

Two young women will embark on a sailing expedition to the Arctic to promote conservation of the Arctic region, as part of a new partnership between WAGGGS andGreenpeace.

Policies and programmes to combat climate change will be more successful with girls and young women at their heart.

This is why WAGGGS is proud to announce its partnership with Greenpeace as part of Greenpeace’s Save the Arctic campaign, which highlights the threat to the fragile Arctic from both climate change and commercial activities.

Later this month, two young women from Girl Guide and Girl Scout Associations will step aboard the Arctic Sunrise, Greenpeace’s icebreaker ship, and set sail from the coast of Svalbard in Norway, 

The young women will join an international group of celebrities, filmmakers, scientists from the University of Cambridge, and Greenpeace members on board.bound for the Arctic Circle.

The expedition’s aim is to claim the Arctic for everybody, for future generations and for no individual nation states, and to show that the future of the Arctic matters to everybody around the world.