Invitation to Participate: WSC-SD Official COP15 Side Event

About our Event

The Bella Center may be closed, but that isn’t stopping us from hosting our UN-approved side event!

Tomorrow, 18 December from 10:00-11:30am, the World Student Community for Sustainable Development will be hosting a side event in the “Meeting Room” at the Forum Conference Center (the location where the government of Denmark has established essentially a huge overflow space for COP15).  This event is open to students, NGOs, business representatives, and members of public institutions who are registered for COP15.

This side event will engage participants unlike any other during COP15 by using a “speed-dating” format.  After a short introduction and opening talk given by Thomas Anderson, former president of Jönköping University, participants (including individuals from Sweden, Nigeria, Japan, the US, and more) will break up into groups of 6 and discuss issues of green corporate social responsibility, sustainable energy in Least Developed Countries , and the relationship between youths and education in 15 minute sessions.

Additionally, participants will be invited to propose additional discussion topics to be covered during the sessions.  The event will be a unique opportunity for representatives of diverse backgrounds to come together and interact in an informal but stimulating environment on the final day of the most talked-about conference of the year.

We invite you to join us!

Youth & student collaboration beyond Copenhagen

“Speed-dating” with youth movements, public & private sector organisations

Date & time: Friday 18th December 2009, 10.00-11.30 h

Venue: Forum, Julius Thomsens Plads 1, Copenhagen (this is the updated location)

This is an unprecedented opportunity

for your organisation to converge with others in order to strengthen your efforts.

In short

10+ youth organisations will come together to create a type of “speed-dating” event amongst the public & private sector to share best practices  (projects, solutions, innovations) on student & youth involvement in climate change. The ultimate goal is to create synergies between youth organisations, and those from the 3 different sectors.

Topics to be tentatively[1] addressed

• Building partnerships to foster start-up projects by students & youth,
• Strengthening the role of Youth with regards to climate change education, awareness and public participation (art. 6 of the Bali Action Plan),
• The future of sustainability
• Mainstreaming green CSR
• Sustainable energy in Least Developed Countries

The aim of this event

• To increase cross-sector and cross-organisational cooperation
• To identify the key steps for a truly global and interlinked youth climate movement in preparation for future COP meetings.
• To interlink youth projects and to provide a support structures for ongoing youth/ student projects & innovations.

Sign-up here

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[1] This can be subject to change, depending on specific interest of organisations

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