So far I’ve been working non-stop for the YOUNGO communications working group and spent most of yesterday writing a press release on the EU ministerial meeting with EU youth. 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 (what do you call them the things you throw to drowning people – my articulation is shot today!) on behalf of the island nations that will disappear. SO today I was excited to go to plenary when of course no NGO’s were allowed anymore! Gah!!!

So I’m posting links about previous events:

So 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!!!