Today is World Youth Day, a day that youth organisations and movements worldwide gather to take action and stand up on climate change.
A major focus of the Day is practical action to further encourage the empowerment and participation of youth in the processes and decisions that affect their lives. The media have especially important role to play in support of the observance of the Day to promote public awareness of youth issues.
Read more at Youth at the United Nations…
or read more at the site of the UN Youth Delegates.
Take a look at the different youth initiatives being held worldwide…
… or read the column by the Dutch UN Youth representative for sustainable development, Don Gerritsen, on climate change (in Dutch).
Read more about the recently held Tällberg Forum (an international conference for thinkers and leaders from seventy nations for four days of conversations and workshops related to the opportunities and challenges of global interdependence. Central and common question was ‘How on earth can we live together?’ The Tällberg Forum proposed a Call fopr Action for the EU to tackle climate change:
For the EU this is likely to mean a reduction of least 60% greenhouse gases by 2030 when compared to 1990 levels.
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