The Council of Canadians - Winnipeg Chapter

The 17th Conference of the Parties (COP17) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the 7th Session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties (CMP7) to the Kyoto Protocol, Working Together - Saving Tomorrow Today is being held from November 28 to December 9th 2011. COP17/CMP7 website

Ani is a member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to COP17 in Durban, South Africa representing Manitoba. Follow her updates regularly at the youthdelegatemanitoba blog.

 

 

Excerpt from: Ani's youthdelegatemanitoba blog - Novemer 21, 2011
Climate Change Policy – A Hot Potato

“It is the youth of the world who can set the agenda for the future and pursue it with diligence. We must do all we can to empower young people to take action, because the future belongs to them” – R. Pachauri, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

Back in June, I was offered the great opportunity to attend the United Nations Climate Change Negotiations – *COP17 this December (Nov. 28 – Dec. 9) in Durban, South Africa* as part of the Canadian Youth Delegation to represent Manitoba. The UN process is generally inaccessible to the average person; thus this opportunity means an incredible experience as well as responsibility and privilege.

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Excerpt from: Ani's youthdelegatemanitoba blog - November 28, 2011
Working Today – Saving Tomorrow Today

Despite the fact that Canada has already been singled out by Civil Society groups as one of the countries trying to obstruct progress during the negotiations, Climate Action Network International brought civil society members from all over the world together to bottom-line concrete asks to make this a successful COP, not some fuzzy “political commitment”. A positive outcome in Durban includes a second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol, securing a mandate to negotiate a legally-binding agreement no later than 2015, and the implementation of the Green Climate Fund.

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