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Stephanie Kwan
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
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After a round of meetings all day Tuesday, the draft text finally came out at
5:30PM. Three hours later, members of the Youth Caucus are gathered in
the Delegate's hallway looking over the draft Chair's text and
comparing it to the Youth Caucus' key priorities. In reviewing the
Chair's text, Youth Caucus members are identifying text to be changed,
removed, fought for, and fought against. After our review, the key
areas to be changed will be presented to the Youth Caucus. Since Major
Groups under CSD, like the Children and Youth Caucus, are not allowed
to directly influence the text, Caucus members will be lobbying
government delegates on various items to impact the outcomes of the
Chair's document. More updates to come soon on how the lobbying
process goes!
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Allison Stewart
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
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So I tried to blog before, but the website was being silly and I wasn't fully awake (it was 7:30 am)!
It is the second day of the high level segment. A lot more people are here, and there is a stronger sense of of urgency.
Funny story time: so I was sitting with two fellow SustainUS delegates, Melissa and Becka, when we noticed there was a large group of people. We thought, hey there's a lot of people, so maybe there food over there. A little bit of time passed, no big deal. Then, in a 2 second swoop, the group of people targeted a small man. We just figured it was a CSD delegate, again no big deal. But slowly as he almost ran away from the reporters, Becka said, "hey, maybe thats Ban ki-moon..." then a few moments later, " It IS Ban!" So we thought that the Secretary-General was food. and now I can say I have been within 20ish feet of him!
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Allison Stewart
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
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So yesterday, Wednesday was the beginning of the high-level segment of the CSD. The Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon gave a speech in the General Assembly, and in general things are a lot busier. More people, more urgency in the air.
Anyways, funny story. Yesterday afternoon while waiting around to discuss youth lobbying, there were a lot of people in the general area. There were security guards, and the conference room 6 sign said "closed meeting". We thought, hey whatever, there's lot of people but there's food over there and they are mooches. Then, as someone left the room, there was a mad dash to a small person. The 'mass' is trying to interview this person. It took us quite some time to realize that it was actually Ban Ki-Moon!
So I am proud to say I was within 20ish feet of him!
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Rachel Rosenberg
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
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I had the thrilling experience of sitting in the Children and Youth chair and making an intervention on behalf of young people about drought and the importance of addressing and reducing the causes, namely over-consumption of water. It was truly gratifying to hear the Chairman say in his overall session summary that he agreed with the statement made by Children and Youth, that yes, the decisions the delegates make are all about us. Honestly, every part of the process leading up to the statement delivery was something I'll cherish for the rest of my life. We worked in a multi-national group of youth to determine what goals and actions to highlight and then used a case study that I worked on for the past two months with my dedicated Drought and Desertification working group (thanks girls!).
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K Nicole Wires
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Tuesday, 06 May 2008
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A highlight for me of Monday May 5 was a series of comments made by Per Pinstrup-Andersen, previously the director of the International Food Policy Research Institute, and currently a professor of nutrition, public policy and economics at Cornell University. Mr. Pinstrup-Andersen was a panelist in the opening panel focusing on the Agriculture Thematic section of CSD-16. His opening statement was a profound and thoughtful exploration of the current belief that food security and environmental sustainability goals must be at odds with one another. He explained that many people often consider these two objectives to conflict with one another, especially considering that agriculture is the greatest human use of natural and environmental resources. He urged the delegation to reframe their understanding of these two goals as ones that inherently oppose one another, and instead suggested that both can only be achieved simultaneously—one cannot be attained at the expense of another. I was excited to hear this view expounded in the opening statements of the very first panel of this year’s CSD, and I hope that this message continues to permeate the conversations and interactions that take place over the next two weeks.
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