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Title: Canadian Youth Delegation to Nairobi
Location:
Categories: Human Rights
Environment
Status:
In Planning
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Recruiting all Canadian Youth Climate Experts! Join our team and have your voice be heard at COP 12/ MOP2!
Background:
2005’s UN climate negotiations saw an extremely strong, coordinated youth presence at the COP 11/ MOP 1 meeting in Montreal. There were many significant achievements, including forceful lobbying of delegates, fantastic youth capacity-building, great youth media coverage, a wildly successful blog (www.itsgettinghotinhere.org), strong youth participation in the Montreal March for the Climate, and the development of relationships and networks between youth, youth organizations and seasoned climate activists.
This year, the COP is in Nairobi, Kenya – a vastly different environment, with different expectations and different hopes. Kyoto Protocol Articles 4.3 and 4.5 are of significant importance (North-South technology and resource transfer as well as contributions to the funding mechanisms for developing countries). As well, the political landscape has changed dramatically in Canada as the government declares that we will be unable to meet our emissions reductions commitments and is calling for voluntary (ie. non-binding!) commitments in a post-2012 Protocol.
Objectives:
1. Guarantee a Canadian youth presence at the UN climate negotiations and increase youth capacity to engage in the international climate policy process.
2. Engage the Canadian public, via an aggressive and widespread media strategy that will increase awareness of climate change issues among the Canadian public prior to, during and after the conference.
3. Support the launch of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) and create lasting international youth networks on climate change; and
4. Secure a permanent youth constituency at the UNFCCC.
Needs:
Your brains and hearts
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