Events

Side event

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: (UPDATED) The Meeting room in the Forum, Julius Thomsens Plads 1, Copenhagen

This is an unprecedented opportunity for your organisation to converge with others in order to strengthen your efforts.

Registration for side event: click here

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.

Registration for side event: click here

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

Weblog

A team from 6 universities around the world will write daily articles on the COP15 from a student perspective. We are partnering with G-1Billion to report on the solutions beyond the negotiations themselves. The eBook will be available here from the 10^th of December onwards.