2009年9月3日CYCAN办公室迎来了两位特殊的朋友，来自瑞典的Sara 和来自墨西哥的 Paulina 。Sara和Paulina从2009年8月29日（距离UNFCCC哥本哈根会议100天）起从韩国出发，开始他们的100天推进气候变化行动。在100天行程中他们将参与UN在韩国、泰国、巴塞罗那的气候变化会议，将与中国、泰国、俄罗斯及欧洲等沿途国家青年人交流并开展气候变化的活动。他们将不乘坐飞机用低碳的方式旅行，沿途宣传并开展气候变化的活动，最终在12月到达哥本哈根参与COP15会议。
100 days moving climate campaign详细信息：
About the project
The 100 days moving climate campaign is run from 29 August to 7 December 2009 by two young climate activists, Paulina Monforte Herrero from Mexico and Sara Svensson from Sweden. Everyone who wants to join us is very welcome to do so. Our initiative is just one of many wonderful climate projects carried out by youth around the world, in a global movement for change and sustainability.
Contact: Sara – sajosve@gmail.com. Paulina – kaayuj@gmail.com.
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 main goal of the 100 days moving climate 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. What is achieved during the 100 days between August 29, 2009 and the start of COP15 in Copenhagen on December 7 is crucial for the future of the world.
Our 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.
Another big aim with our project is to meet and interact with young climate activists in the 14 countries we’ll visit on the way. Young people in all different places are already doing a lot, and by sharing our stories we’ll strengthen the sense of belonging to the same global movement for change, 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. 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
