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"Ethical dimensions of Climate Change" |
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One can feel it all around you. The pace, energy and excitement the youth bring to the UN. It's amazing!
It has wonderful working with other young people who are just as
passionate on issues on social and environmental justice and
sustainable development. However, the long hours of drafting policy
statements and talking to government delegates has been tedious.
A couple of us just spent half the afternoon drafting our statement for
the Climate Change session. One of the issues we lobbied for was
government to consider ethical and moral dimensions of climate change
and not just the economic and political implications of the
issue. It felt great to read it out at the session and have
everybody listen to what we had to say.
I was lucky to meet with both the Namibian and Fijian government
delegates. I discussed with them about the fact that there is under
representation of youth from the South at the Youth and Children
caucus. Hopefully they will lobby their government to send young
government delegates when they go back home. There were also very
supportive and impressed about our contribution to the CSD.
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