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Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2008

  Meet Katarzyna, International Youth Delegate from Poland
What inspired you to get involved in the climate change movement? - Katarzyna (Kasia) recognized that it is one of the most important issues at the moment. She had done social work and human rights training in the past, but now wanted to support the youth climate movement. She...... [view]
Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 25, 2008

  Meet Marta, Polish volunteer at COP14
Marta shares her thoughts on the conference and particularly her disappointment in the lack of focus or acknowledgment given to the severe social consequences of climate change. Video message in Polish and English. ... [view]
Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Meet Dinh, International Youth Delegate from Belgium
What inspired you to join the fight against climate change? Dinh’s Childhood gave him the inspiration. His family was political refugees from Vietnam to Belgium . A new page of his life started, and he had the opportunity to go to school where he was accepted. He...... [view]
Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Dustin, International Youth Delegate from Taiwan
Video message from Dustin (english) ...... [view]
Posted By:  TheaWhitman
Posted On:  Dec 22, 2008

  Disappointment, inspiration; hope and fear
At 4AM this morning, as I stood in line bleary-eyed, waiting for a cancelled flight and reading a sobering but beautiful collection of tiny Vonnegut essays, one piece, Requiem , struck a chord with me. An excerpt: "The crucified planet Earth, should it find a voice and a sense of irony, ...... [view]
Posted By:  minime-kg
Posted On:  Dec 21, 2008

  Khairun, International Youth Delegate from Malaysia
Why do you think there is lack of mobilization around climate change in Malaysia? Programs are expensive to be apart of, so youth who are not of middle class/upper class can’t afford “activism.” Also, it is difficult to reach out to youth in Malaysia . A top-down...... [view]
Posted By:  cydnairobi
Posted On:  Dec 18, 2008

  Ten Weeks Later, Part 1
When the last gavel came down in Poznan this December, around 2:30 in the morning, it marked the end of my tenth week at the UN climate talks. From Nairobi to Bonn to Bali and back to Bonn I have tried to digest and process the enormity of it all - to understand the klimapolitik that inevitably...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Dec 17, 2008

  The unjustifiable destruction of the environment
Reflections Of Fidel: CAN capitalist society avoid it? News about the issue is not encouraging. In Poznan, they are discussing the project to be presented in December of next year in Copenhagen, where the agreement that will replace the Kyoto Protocol will be discussed and voted on. The...... [view]
Posted By:  gryphongirl8
Posted On:  Dec 14, 2008

  The End, and the Beginning
It has been an incredibly emotional and exhausting last few days here in Poznan. On Friday, the 14th Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention on Climate Change concluded with very little progress. Developing countries pleaded into the wee hours of the night for a more rigorous outcome on...... [view]
Posted By:  TheaWhitman
Posted On:  Dec 11, 2008

  SURVIVAL
During the COP this morning, after inspiring remarks by Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the UN, the prime minister of Tuvalu, a tiny island nation which has been representing the alliance of small island states, (AOSIS, a negotiating bloc at this conference) made the following statement:...... [view]
Posted By:  adoukas
Posted On:  Dec 11, 2008

  "They seem to have forgotten that human beings live in my part of the world"
A youth delegate from Fiji just made a comment that I need to share: "They seem to have forgotten that human beings live in my part of the world." There is still no sense of urgency here. In our meeting with Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice this morning, he essentially denied that there...... [view]
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Submitted By:   nallison36
Event Date:  Dec 7, 2008 & Time: 14:00 PM-15:30 PM
Event Location:  http://projects.takingitglobal.org/clccanada/chat
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  Contacting my local government representative about Climate Change
Submitted By:   laurakenyon
Committers:  16
Date Created:  2008-11-27 		Description:   In honour of the UN Climate Negotiations taking place now in Poznan, Poland, I commit to contacting my local government representative and telling them that the consequences of climate change are an important issue to me and to youth worldwide.
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