With all the interesting infromation given, this sub section may guild you to the direction of getting effectively involved in the global youth work related to 15th Conference of Parties.
Ways to get involved in YOUNGO work,…
HAVE 100 million questions, Then its time to send an email:
For logistics issues – contact Adrian Yeo Eng Kang (ninoamigo@gmail.com) – he is the youth logistics coordinator based in Copenhagen
For other issues – you are welcome to contact me at aiden.abram@gmail.com – If I can’t answer it I will be happy to connect you to someone who can answer your question / support you in getting involved.
UNFCCC Secretariat: If you need to be in contact with the UNFCCC Secretariat, please be in contact with our Secretariat focal points – Wilson Ang (Wilson.ang@eco-singapore.org) and Li Lina (lilina.mun@gmail.com)
Getting involved in YOUNGO activities
Many many things need done and could get done over the next days before COP. If you have extra capacity and are interested to get more involved – please DO get involved, however you like. Many Working Groups and Affinity Groups are active and can always use more contributions. I have heard a few comments about holding back or not thinking you can contribute because ‘you have never been to a COP before’ or you don’t know where to get involved’ or ‘Maybe it is already being done by someone else’.
The short answer – get involved and don’t wait until COP unless you ahve to. More than 85% of youth coming have never been to a COP before. When in doubt, get involved, share your ideas and thoughts, ask questions. The best thing is to find a group working on issues that interest you and help make it successful. If the specific thing you want to work on is being covered, start your own group! Check out the list of Working/Affinity groups. Also, be sure to ask for help if you are not sure!
How to hook up with the action???
Join our Working Groups.
Attend the Conference of Youth.
Talk to the spokesperson.
Take part in our events.
Join hands with our partner organizations.
Help us to make youth voice powerful and make it count.
Join our Working Groups.
Young people working on Climate Change who are specificially concentrating on the coming Copenahgen treaty have established different working groups for different purposes.
- Related to the COP-15 work they have working groups for Policy , Communication , Actions , Logistics , COY-05 , Youth Media , Global South, Capacity Building.
- For the coordination of regional level youth action on climate change relevance to a new climate treaty there are different working groups for different regions, namely: African Youth Initiative on Climate Change, Asian Youth Climate Movement, European Youth Climate Movement, Clima Latino which is also known as the listserv for Latin America, Nordic Youth Climate Action Movement, Youth Climate Movements in the countries of the former USSR who speak main Russian.
- We also have 3 more major groups for discussing of the policy and actions related to LULUCF/REDD), tracking and advocating for references to youth in the text of the climate agreement and one for the Project Survival.
- Other than these three main categories of groups we also have those who wok on the Young and Future Generations Day (includes planning for Youth reception) and those who are working on youthclimate.org youth climate development and another one called Climate Translators.
- COP15 youth wrap-up event group who are working hard on a powerful event for Dec 20th, 2009.
Attend the Conference of Youth.
“To build trust and solidarity among youth who will be attending COP15, and to share ideas, thoughts, successes and skills with each other, To build a truly global movement to stop the climate crisis.”
How do you take part i the conference. What is it. Who is working on what. In this web portal we have a page for dedicatedjust for COY. Please go to http://youthclimate.org/projects-and-actions/coy/ for all the basic infomations you need to know about the 5th Conferene of youth.
Register for COY: Make sure you are registered with the Conference participants list if you want to take part in this amazing event (Open for Youth from around the world who will be attending COP15). Click here to register.
To contact the COY masterminders:
Agathe Cavicchioli (France) cavicchioli.a@gmail.com – COY Working Group Chair
Phil Aroneanu (USA) phil@350.org
Joao Scarpelini (Brasil) joao@peacechild.org
Ibraheem Ceesay (Gambia) ceesaydigital@gmail.com
Esperanza Garcia (Philippines) garciaesperanza@live.com
Wilson Ang (Singapore) wilson.ang@eco-singapore.org
Marcelo Quintanilla (Mexico) marcelo@350.org
Yoshi Kanemitsu (Japan) jasc61.yoshi@gmail.com
Jenny Chu (New Zealand) yy.jenny.chu@gmail.com
Adrian Yeo Eng Kang (Malaysia) ninoamigo@gmail.com – COY and YOUNGO logistics
Talk to the spocksperson.
If you are media or organizational person or eve an individual who is keen in knowing what UNFCCC youth constituency have to say on certain issues flying inside your brain then these are the people to talk to.
Till we publish the full list of coordinators and spokespersons you can contact the person shown below.
Liz McDowell @ +48 517 484 4429
Take part in our events.
This is a great way to meet the globe in one place. Shout out what you want to say in the way you want to without any body pocking you with the elbow. Organisatiosn in YOUNGO network organise varioes events of their own during the time of COP 15 in Copenhagen. You can join them easily. Just visit the International page for the list of most known events.
Or tyou can take part in action directly managed by YOUNGO it self.
- Project Survival
What is Project Survival?*
Project Survival began at the Poznan COP, when we realised that there was
huge overlap between the policy positions of the small island developing
states (SIDs), and the youth. At the same time, the SIDs were very
under-represented. Thus, Project Survival was born – the youth working
directly to support the participation of the small islands, and using our
energy, enthusiasm and numbers push our common policy positions. It
culminated in coordinated youth action on an unprecedented scale, and
genuinely pushed the negotiations in our favour.
It is a powerful approach that combines the Party status of the small island
states with the immense capacity of youth!
*Action happening now!*
Project Survival has been continuing to grow around the world since Poznan.
Young Australians are living and working in Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and the
Solomon Islands, and a large contingent will be attending COP15 solely to
work on Project Survival. Similar projects are going on in the USA with the
Caribbean small islands, capacity building Caribbean youth, and the
Netherlands youth have secured funding to bring 10 African youth to
Copenhagen!
You can be part of the working group activly working on the project or just read the information on the website.
Join hands with our partner organisations.
help us to make youth voice powerfull and make it count.
