The 100 days moving climate campaign is a low-carbon journey that will start in Korea and end in Copenhagen. We’re planning to travel overland – without flying – between the UN climate talks in Bangkok, Barcelona and Copenhagen. There we’ll be influencing the climate negotiations by interacting directly with government delegates and campaigning with international youth. Just as we’ll be moving from one place to another in a more difficult but less harmful way than what’s business-as-usual these days, it’s now time to move on from politics-as-usual to the kind of bold and ambitious leadership that the world needs.
Contact us: Sara Svensson, Sweden – sajosve@gmail.com. Paulina Monforte Herrero, Mexico – kaayuj@gmail.com.
Read below to find out more about the project, or click on ‘home’ above to read our blog!
Paulina and Sara - 100 days moving climate campaign
BACKGROUND
Climate change is the most important issue of our time, and 2009 is a crucial year for the future of the world. In December 2009, the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) will take place in Copenhagen, where governments are scheduled to sign a global climate treaty to steer the world on course.
Unfortunately, the global negotiations are moving too slowly. There is a big gap between the kind of treaty that science proves necessary for solving the climate crisis and what governments around the world are currently willing to commit to in Copenhagen. Therefore, a lot must be done in the next few months. The negotiators will meet in Bangkok in October and in Barcelona in November to work on the draft text of the new climate treaty. Governments must know that citizens all around the globe are watching them and demand that they do their utmost in Copenhagen to sign a global treaty that will safeguard the survival of all nations, peoples and biodiversity.
Youth have an important role to play in solving climate change, and we need to make our voices heard before, during and after the climate change negotiations. We are the moral stakeholders because we will live in the world shaped by today’s decisions. Youth also provide many of the solutions to climate change, and we’re ready to work hard to implement them so that we’ll get to the sustainable future in our lifetime.
OUR PROJECT
The 100 days moving climate campaign is run from 29 August to 7 December 2009 by two youth climate activists, Paulina Monforte Herrero from Mexico and Sara Svensson from Sweden. Everyone who wants to join us is very welcome to do so. The main goal of the campaign is to contribute to an ambitious, fair and globally binding deal on climate change in Copenhagen, by pushing governments in the right direction and by building public awareness in the lead-up to COP15.
We’ll be travelling overland – without flying – between the UN climate talks in Bangkok, Barcelona and Copenhagen. There we’ll be influencing the climate negotiations by interacting directly with government delegates and campaigning with international youth. Just as we’ll be moving from one place to another in a more difficult but less harmful way than what’s business-as-usual these days, it’s now time to move on from politics-as-usual to the kind of bold and ambitious leadership that the world needs.
Another big aim with our project is to meet and interact with youth climate activists in the 14 countries we’ll visit on the way. Our initiative is just one of many inspiring and wonderful climate projects carried out by youth around the world. By sharing our stories we’ll strengthen the sense of belonging to the same global movement for change and sustainability, which is important for creating the revolutionary shifts in lifestyles, habits, values and thinking that are needed regardless of the outcomes of COP15. Together with local youth we’ll organise actions and events to raise public awareness and get more people involved in climate change campaigning. The scientific reality is moving, and people’s minds must be moved to make everyone part of the solution.
TIMELINE
29 August – 100 days from COP15. Launch of the project in Seoul, Korea
30-31 August – Climate campaigning with young Koreans
1 September – Travel without flying from Seoul to Beijing
2-12 September – Climate campaigning with young activists in China
13-27 September – Climate campaigning in Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand
28 Sept-9 October – UNFCCC intersessional climate negotiations in Bangkok
10-20 October – Low-carbon train travel from Bangkok to Irkutsk
24 October – Global Day of Climate Action, Lake Baikal (www.350.org)
25 Oct – 1 November – Low-carbon train travel from Irkutsk to Barcelona
2-6 November – UNFCCC intersessional climate negotiations in Barcelona
7 Nov-6 Dec – In our individual ways give climate activism all what we can!
7-18 December – UN Climate Change Conference, COP15, in Copenhagen.
CONTACT US
E-mail: Sara – sajosve@gmail.com, Paulina – kaayuj@gmail.com.
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