So far I’ve been working non-stop for the YOUNGO communications working group and spent most of yesterday working among other things on writing a press release on the EU ministerial meeting with EU youth – I’ll post up that article when finished. I asked them about ESD and got a fairly standard reply from the Finnish special envoy, we have the podcast recorded for download here which we got Minister Gormley to attend. By doing this I missed talks by Al Gore and Arnold Schwarzenegger, I stayed out of plenary where Ban Ki Moon was talking with Prince Charles and Wangari Maathai (wonderful woman!!). I did manage to see our former president Mary Robinson present the UNFCCC Executive Secretary Yvo de Boer with a life ring) on behalf of the island nations that will disappear. So when I finally got to go to plenary, no NGO’s were allowed anymore! Gah!!!

Now it’s Thursday and I didn’t get the lottery to go in today. Maybe tomorrow but the NGO groups are getting smaller and smaller that they’ll allow in – I missed the lottery of 120 youth, not sure I’ll get into the lottery of 60 either. But in one sense it’s good cause now I’m able to go to the two alternative climate conferences today and I’ll update from that – also I have some video footage to upload from the youth sit-in yesterday as they protested and stayed in all night! at least till 1am anyways then I can’t find anything more – will meet up with folks later today and find out what happened.

So I’m now using this time to post links about previous events:

With the press conference, Severn Suzuki gave the International Youth Climate Movement an exclusive pep-talk which was great – to get more of an idea of who she is – she was the young girl who silenced the world in 1992 in Rio de Janiero

You can see the clip here

So through the wonders of editing I clipped a little of this and Christina Ora’s plea last week to opening plenary and added them to the clip Severn sent us this week (her mother won’t let her talk to anyone, as she is just after contributing to the next generation but she sent this clip exclusively to the youth movement)

You can see mine and my techy friend Ben’s craftmanship here - pretty snazzy if I do say so myself!!!