How important is protecting the environment to you?

Many of our daily habits that we consider “normal” are very harmful to the environment and most of them occur due to misinformation. This is why Fundación Paraguaya has developed the Green Stoplight (GS) that seeks to promote pro-environmental habits that help people to reflect on their own actions and motivate them in order to generate positive changes in their environment. Most of you would probably answer that environmental protection is very important. Now, consider the following question: What actions do you take for protecting the environment?

Discussions on how to address climate change often present disparate views. On the one hand, some argue that actions at the individual level – such as reducing the use of plastics or saving energy and water – will help to tackle climate change, and on the other, there are arguments that such actions are futile, as governments and companies hold most of the power when it comes to deciding what regulations and practices to take forward.

Are we part of the solution or part of the problem?

Although governments and companies can have the greatest impact, there are studies that show the potential of households to mitigate the effects of climate change. This is why Fundación Paraguaya has developed the GS, which seeks to combine the theory of change of the Poverty Stoplight, which is based on the knowledge of the reality of the person as a means to increase self-efficacy, with pro-environmental habits that seek to reduce the damage of human activity on the environment. The GS is composed of five dimensions; each one of them divided into informative indicators that have elements that allow measuring the situation at different levels. These elements are the key pieces of the indicator that will change at each level and are subdivided into different colors allusive to the traffic light (red, yellow and green) that show the habits that generate greater or lesser damage to the environment; where red represents greater damage, medium yellow and green less damage.

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