Youth and future generations day
Today (2. December) is the youth and future generations day at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico. This means that during the day there will be a lot of side-events and demonstrations to highlight the youth participation in the negotiations. The day started with a silent demonstration, to point out the fact that youth has very limited possibilities to affect the negotiations. But since some excellent, unexpected good news on Tuesday, this might change very soon.The so called Article 6 of the climate convention, which deals with education, public awareness and public participation, will be discussed in a contact group, and a COP decision of it might be done here in Cancun. This means that the question will get much more attention than it has so far, and for example more financing will be possible. A great thing is that the draft that is proposed include a lot of the things the youth constituency, YOUNGO, has proposed to the text. Fingers crossed that it will go through! Follow the blog (and Twitter!) for updates on the issue!
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