This is one of the many personal experiences one student from Lycee International de Ferney - Voltaire shared during
the last Youth Climate Dialogue (YCD).
Not exact matches
Youth, and most civil society, were effectively shut out of the crucial
last days of the UN
climate negotiations in Copenhagen in 2009.
YouCAN
youth advocate for
lasting legal protection for the atmosphere, oceans, and the Earth's natural resources in the form of binding greenhouse gas emission reduction targets and
climate recovery planning in line with the best available science.
If I ask people to rank ten issues (
climate change,
youth unemployment, terrorism, etc., etc.) people will rank
climate change dead
last.
«Obama has a small window left to secure a long -
lasting climate legacy by protecting the
youth of America's constitutional rights,» she told me.
Today's
youth are the first generation to feel the impacts of
climate change and the
last that can do something about it.
Last year, 350.org asked members of the Caribbean
Youth Environment Network (CYEN)-- another organization founded by Simmons — why they're taking action on
climate change: