December 9, 2011

Mic check. Mic check. Youth intervention (English and Spanish version of the speech)

Youth Civil Society December 9, 2011 6 Comments

This morning Anjali gave the intervention to the high-level segment COP plenary on behalf of youth. Standing on the podium, and looming large on the screen, she launched right in. I speak for more than half the world's population. We are the silent majority. You've given us a seat in this hall, but our interests are not on the table. What does it take to get a stake in this game?...

Getting a movement going

greeder December 9, 2011 1 Comment

by Graham Reeder So after two weeks of singing and dancing in designated, coordinated, preapproved, action spaces, the official youth constituency just made their first risky move at this COP. Anjali delivered a powerful high-level plenary intervention about how the youth are being failed and how developed countries are to blame for delay on ambitious climate action, and the youth followed it up...