With less than 24 hours remaining in the negotiations, tensions are rising, NGOs are running around like fleas in a fit and the conference halls are throbbing with important people with places to go but not a lot to say. Amongst all the mayhem, a message is springing up on the tshirts of [...]
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Over a week has passed since we arrived in Durban, South Africa, and the negotiations at COP-17 (aka the 17th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which is a bit of a tongue twister) have swung into life. While most Environment & Climate Change Ministers won’t [...]
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NZYD has been extremely fortunate this year. All of our delegates are accredited for both weeks of the UN Climate Change Conference – something that has not happened before. For Elana, Simon and I, our accreditation was thanks to Caroline and the brilliant staff at UNICEF, the United Nations Children’s Fund.
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NZYD has a Youtube channel, and we’re starting to pop up a few video blogs.
Continue Reading → There’s also a lot going on here at the Conference Centre about coal and oil. Poland today won the “Fossil of the Day” from the Climate Action Network for its coal scheming, and Canada is closely wedded [...]
“We only have one home”
…in the words of the comedic Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Today, we attended a public faith rally which brought together thousands of supporters of climate justice, leaders of faith, politicians and amazing musicians. Championed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu and various faith leaders, the rally was [...]
This year at COY, youth from the Pacific have been extremely underrepresented; natural when COP-17 is about 36 hours of flight time away from the Pacific, and when funding doesn’t come easily for Pacific youth.
Continue Reading → Knowing this, it seemed obvious that NZYD should focus on hosting a workshop on climate change in [...]
We’re beginning to see how much work we have ahead of us. One day until COP begins!
On Friday, we joined approximately 700 other young people from around the world at the University of Kwazulu-Natal for the first day of COY. This was our first real chance to get to know the [...]
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