WCC 2020 Res 124 - Activity Report

General Information

Period covered
IUCN Constituent
IUCN CEC East Europe, North and Central Asia 2021-2025
Activities carried out to implement this Resolution
Relevant operative para(s) of Res/Rec Activities Overview Description Status
Education/Communication/Raising awareness
I lecture "Lighting protection" to Environmental engineering master students at the Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania. Students learned about the effects of light and lighting use on human health and living species in outdoor environments in urban areas. Students are instructed to measure lighting and compare them to European lighting standards, to calculate dioksid carbon emissions due to lighting well as well as to optimase lighting use and save it at night in outdoor environments in urban areas. Students were introduced to negative effects of lighting (pollution) on living species e.g. birds in urban areas.
On-going

Actors involved

IUCN Members
No other Members are/have been involved
IUCN Commissions
No Commissions are/have been involved
IUCN Secretariat
No
Report status
Published