Young People To World Leaders at COP18: Your Climate Legacy Shapes The World We Inherit.

On Monday morning, negotiators from around the world poured into the Qatar National Conference Center for the first day of the COP18 United Nations Climate Talks, prepared for a long day of speeches on the technical details of multilateral environmental diplomacy. However, as they travelled down the moving walkway between security and the plenary hall they were confronted with the human face of climate change.’

Young people from around the world had flanked the walkway holding signs in multiple languages that reminded negotiators of the terrifying consequences that runaway greenhouse gas emissions have already begun imposing on people and the planet; droughts, hurricanes, wildfires, desertification, rising seas, biodiversity loss, and more.  At the bottom of each sign the youth posed the question “Will This Be Your #ClimateLegacy?”

On Climate Justice We Stand. By Friday Nathaniel Efik

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Young Climate Activist Decide

The Nigerian chapter of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) votes for its national leaders. The elections would usher in a new team to lead this awesome network for the next two years (2012-2014) with a clear mandate to position AYICC as the Nigerian/African youth network supporting Nigerian/African governments in proffering sustainable solutions to problems attributable to climate change.