 Critical thinking is a powerful intellectual value strongly promoted in the education curricula of the developed countries, as well as one of the main skills that debate aims to learn and develop to the young people, and this skill will strongly affect their way learning, thinking and acting. The main purpose of the debate was to learn the youngsters to debate using their judgment on a very important issue such as Energy Efficiency and Environment. This was an attractive way to raise awareness on energy and environmental issues between young people and also a good chance to mention the World Bank financed projects on energy in the country.
The YVG members attended the debated tournament between 5 high schools of Tirana – Sami Frasheri, Petro Nini Luarasi, Partizani, Ismail Qemali, and Qemal Stafa, - gathered in the European University of Tirana’s classrooms to debate on the topic ““Trade mechanisms are the best regulators for reducing carbon emission”.
 This debate was organized in four phases: Phase 1: consisted in compiling and publishing of the research packets on the topic, which were distributed to the debaters a month previously to the tournament. Phase 2: TOT for YVG members to be qualified as judges for the formal debates in Karl Popper format. Phase 3: training the debaters for the topic, offering information to deeper analyze the Kyoto protocol and the reasons of some states of the world for singing but not ratifying it, Cap and Trade system, Carbon tax, etc. Phase 4: Tirana Open Debate Tournament. After a day marathon of debates on pros and cons on the topic the pool of judges decided the winners. The winners and the best speakers were awarded with certificates signed with the logo of YVGA and Mjaft and were given best sellers books to price their performance. A very nice added element of the tournament that came together with the YVG members were the three colored symbolized t-shirts that gave a actual aspect to the whole debate on how to act best to protect the environment.
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