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2 | 4/23/2015 8:16:06 | Moinina | Victor | Forum for the Development of Young People | Cameroon | Sierra Leonean | Male | 25 | English | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because it will be a great opportunity to share my views as a young person on such an important issue. I will also proffer some workable insights into significant strategies that will enhance positive response. Most importantly, I represent the unheard youths in the developing world so granting me such an opportunity will be a step in the right direction | I come from Sierra Leone, a country that is a very stable one in terms of Climate. In 2013, I was the Tunza Ecogeneration Ambassador for UNEP and Samsung Engineering, which was then that I developed a key interest in the climate action. Together with Environmental Protection Agency headed by H.E. President Ernest Bai Koroma, we have worked on various strategies and policies on maintaining some climate action plans. One of this plan was seen in the action plan against the harmful sea weed that was emanating from the sea. We look at the cause of such unsightly plants on the beautiful beaches of the country which saw that the use of Gynamite for fishing activities was the cause. So we formed a task force to ensure that these fishermen limit if not stop the use of Gynamite which has produced much better result. When we look at the Tree planting initiatives in the country, we have bolstered the culture of tree planting by introducing it in Primary and secondary schools. We have used that platform to inspire the children to embrace such a practice so that we can prevent erosion and flooding in our beautiful country. Perhaps, our major stride has been in the cleaning programs to prevent green house effect. With this program, we went in the slumy areas of the capital and introduced the use of cleaning detergent to prevent the appearance of the green plague that is common around. Even though we still have a long way to go, but our efforts is being embraced which will lead to a development very soons | Victor Moinina is the CEO and Founder of Forum for the Development of Young People. He is a Masters of Science student at the pan african university of governance, Humanities and social sciences of the African Union Commission. He is a very renouned public orator who is quite charismatic in deliveriing speeches of change and public policies. He started speaking in schools in 2006 and since then, he has led discussions in Ghana, Ethiopia, Tunisia and England. He is a Pan African Youth award winner for the year 2015 due to his emphatic leadership skills | https://youtu.be/Ujk2VWj2Oug | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bxp2BXK4zYszQktzMmJHbDg4bGM/view?usp=sharing | http://www.forum4development.webs.com/ | |||||
3 | 4/23/2015 18:32:08 | Jostas | Mwebembezi | Human Rights and Democracy Link Africa | Uganda | Ugandan | Male | 39 | English | Yes | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | In order to share our climate action best practices and also learn from the other proven local climate action technologies | Despite the immense impact on agricultural productivity and water resources, climate change and its damage have long been ignored by development planners. Decision- and policymakers have for long not been aware of the gravity and urgency of climate change and its impacts on food and water security. There is urgent need to conduct climate change impact profiles in every district and region with a clear mechanism of operation and information management. This would aim to holistically assess, plan and manage climate change natural disasters Disturbances to the smallholder system by unsustainable land use practices and climate change will reduce the capacity of this system to feed the populace and will place significant cost burdens on the government. Climate variability and climate change pose a serious threat to such systems if planning is not undertaken now to manage soil fertility. Past assessments of a number of vulnerable areas in Uganda reveal that agricultural practices that rural populations rely on, including associated business activities, are under increasing pressure from rising populations and emerging climate change hazards and risks. Enhancing the resilience of smallholder farmers’ livelihoods to the Adverse Effects of Climate Change on Food Security and nutrition in Uganda through cassava value chain research and ICTs | Mr. Rukidi Sam is an associate of Masters in Community Development at Nkumba University Kampala, He holds a bachelors' degree in Community Development. Mr. Sam is the Executive Director of Human Rights and Democracy Link Africa in Uganda since 1996 and a representative of a civil society organization, and officially authorized by the organization to speak on the organization’s behalf; He can address the relevant topics and guiding questions in the event concept note,has demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders,He is a compelled public speaker for over 20 years; He will travel to be in New York on 28-29 June 2015. He is able to obtain one within 2 weeks for travel to New York. | http://www.ride-africa.org/ | |||||||
4 | 4/23/2015 23:56:07 | Galicha | Rodne | Bayay Sibuyanon | Philippines | Filipino | Male | 35 | English, Filipino | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Sibuyan Island in the middle of the Philippines is called the Galapagos of Asia by scientists. It is an ice-age island which is a center of endemism. It is where the world's densest forest is located comprising 123 tree species, of which 54 are endemic. The island is home to 700 vascular plants, including 54 species endemic to the island and 180 species endemic to the Philippine archipelago. Sibuyan is also home to 131 species of birds and at least 5 species of mammals that are endemic, according to scientists and environmentalists. Having almost 100% clean energy and negative carbon footprint, we are showing the world that despite of our island's isolation, sustainability is always possible while taking care of Mother Earth. | Switching on lights during Earth Hour. In Sibuyan Island, we have contributed in reducing carbon emissions significantly in our own little way since 2010 by using renewable source of energy from hydro-power. Sibuyan Island is powered by a 900-kilowatt hydro-electric power plant in Cantingas River, proclaimed in 2007 as the country's cleanest river. We have been protecting our forests despite the abuses of some and we are holding our hands together to defend our island from any other possible destruction, Right here in the middle of the Philippines. In Sibuyan Island, we can. Right at this very hour from 11pm to 12am, our source of energy is 100% clean. If a small island can do it, why not the world? We are joining the Earth Hour by switching on our lights in Sibuyan Island, The Philippines. Be a light! | Bayay Sibuyanon Inc. Chairperson (Co-founder) and President RODNE R. GALICHA is one of the original convenors of Bayay Sibuyanon in 2011 while doing his work for Alyansa Tigil Mina (ATM) with Haribon Foundation. Since 2009, he serves as Philippine Manager of The Climate Reality Project (TCRP), a global movement aiming to solve the climate crisis founded by Nobel Laureate and former US Vice President Al Gore, and tasked to mentor new climate leaders of the movement in Indonesia, United States, Australia and South Africa and Brazil. He is formally employed as Southeast Asia Coordinator of Bank Information Center (BIC), a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC. He also sits down as member of the steering committee of Aksyon Klima Pilipinas (AK Pilipinas) and member of the executive committee of the National Central Cultural Communities Committiee (NCCCC) of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA). A member of Romblon’s Provincial Development Council and MIMAROPA’s Regional Development Council, he actively engages in participatory governance. He is a recipient of Gawad Bayani ng Kalikasan national individual award in 2013 and of the 2014 MIMAROPA Regional Volunteer Award. He has authored the book We Are Nature and occasionally writes for Manila Standard Today. While leading the organization, ‘Rod’ also serves as Culture and Arts Coordinator. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKyMs5gaMN0 | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodne_Galicha http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/639773/campaign-on-to-save-cleanest-river-in-ph | http://www.bayay.ph/ | |||||
5 | 4/24/2015 0:19:08 | Sanz | Noemi Marcela | Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero | Argentina | Argentina | Femenino | 52 | Español | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Vivo en un área de extrema contaminación ambiental y veo como dia a dia se va degradando la vida de sus habitantes. Realizo talleres de educación ambiental y creo que es necesario impartir cada día mas educación en la población para poder mejorar nuestra calidad de vida y el futuro de nuestros niños, que es el futuro de nuestro planeta | Desde 2004 realizo trabajo de campo en asentamientos del barrio Loma Hermosa en Buenos AIres. Esta es una zona de extrema pobreza y vulnerabilidad socio, económica ambiental. Hay un alto indice de deserción escolar. Mujeres y niños se ven afectados en su salud debido a la alta contaminación ambiental. Es necesario educar a la población en mejorar el medio ambiente y crear multiplicadores. Todos, niños y niñas, hombres y mujeres, docentes y no docentes. Todos debemos participar y comprometernos para que nuestro hogar nos acoja con seguridad, salud y bienestar | La Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero a travez de proyectos sociales se acerca a barrios donde la población necesita educación y ayuda para informarse acerca del medio ambiente y cambio climático. Yo he sido coordinadora de campo en estos proyectos y actualmente da talleres sobre medio ambiente. Soy magister internacional en Medio Ambiente Sustentable y actualmente realizo un Doctorado en Sustentabilidad. He participado en varios Congresos Internacionales exponiendo acerca de la educación ambiental | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8tIkqXxEi2ORW1IcUNwTHFlRzQ&authuser=0 | http://untref.edu.ar/ | ||||||
6 | 4/24/2015 2:44:39 | Vedvyas | Simran | Cosmo Foundation- SynergY | United Arab Emirates | Indian | Female | 16 | English, Hindi/Urdu | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided); Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I represent the youth from around the world, which constitutes a major, vibrant and resourceful segment of the total world population and I aspire for change in this world. Determined to scale greater heights, I share and learn many good ideas that inspire me because ‘I must be the change I want to see in the world’. Each one of us has a responsibility to live peacefully and not jeopardize the natural resources of our Planet Earth. I am interested to speak at this event as I believe can project compelling statements, seek solutions and inspire others to join in the process too, as I seek to share my experience, and further indulge youth to raise more awareness by participating systematically and effectively in promoting education, environmental work, sustainability for the future we want and causes that must be addressed sooner than ever before with creative and innovative ideas. Learning and connecting with networks will help me focus and further promote Change. Change that begins with choice. Since human Power is Infinite, and we have the technology, the resources and I know many others like me are constantly working; because there is still a choice to do so-to empower and to do well, to better the relationship with ourselves and be the Change-makers, I wish to be a part of the opening ceremony as share with the world that we are the change makers, should we choose to. www.about.me/simranvedvyas.com www.synergyouth.weebly.com Sustainable Change within the World needs creative & inspiring Youth Leadership. I aspire to share my experience, indulge youth to raise more awareness & participate effectively in promoting environmental work, sustainability. My group SynergY is providing many opportunities each year to youth and encouraging them to participate in the Earth Hour Events, Clean Up drives, Toners, plastic, Can Collection & tree planting initiatives for a safer Environment. In 2014 as the Country Ambassador COP in My City Lima COP 201 in Dubai, we conducted extensive debate sessions with over a hundred bright youth from various institutions in UAE & the feedback of the participants were to build more coalitions & form Climate Action Funds and Packages from the Developed Nations, Firm Commitments that can be seriously and diligently implemented. Reduction in CO2 emissions by all means from governments, participation by organizations, NGO, youth, women, civil society etc, raising awareness and sustainable environment education at all levels must be given prime importance as the future generations need not have the fear of pollution and severe climate disasters. Effective Climate Financing & Institutionalized monitoring of actions by all countries, levying penalties to countries responsible for causing the damage & incentives to those helping take corrective measures were some main feedbacks and action blocks suggested for implementation in National and Global Policies | GREEN SPACE NEW LIFE “We won’t have a society if we destroy the environment” – Margaret It is extremely alarming that millions of tonnes of trash generated every day, consisting of paper products, yard clippings, industrial & hazardous waste, plastics and food waste is filling landfills. UAE is spending billions for waste management and recycling projects with than 20% of all waste sent to the landfills being recyclable. The demand for energy is growing day-by-day, & global warming rising at an alarming rate. Dubai is running out of landfill space to dump its rubbish. Green Space New Life, Planted nearly 2000 trees particularly in landfill areas in UAE to benefit the environment. Measurable success – the trees will grow to provide more oxygen in the area making the lives and health of those working in the landfill areas safer and healthier. The project success was measured by the local and global outreach and the feedback received. Phase 2 campaigns as Plant for the Planet supported by Accor, Goumbook, Give a Ghaf tree planting program and Dubai Municipality to plant 1000 native Ghaf trees during 2015 in landfill areas is ongoing. | Sixteen years old Simran Vedvyas is a tour de force in challenging youth to adopt more sustainable & peaceful lifestyle. A resident of Dubai UAE, Simran is the Founder & Chairperson of SynergY, a group of young students working together to advocate for more sustainable lifestyles, providing grass-root opportunities for youth by initiatives like clean-up drives, mangrove rehabilitation, & tree-planting etc. Receiving multiple awards & recognition for her work, including awards from Dubai Municipality-Plant-for-the-Planet & Green Space-New Life campaigns, recognized by Dubai Electricity and Water Authority for Earth Hour since2013, Top Tetrapak Collector Award EEG. Certificate of appreciation for outstanding contribution & achievements, make her ‘role model for her generation’ Dubai Municipality & from 2007 -2015 Clean up World Awards. On a global level, Simran won the Samsung Engineering Best Environmental Presentation Award Global Youth for the Environment Forum in Seoul, 2012. Simran is conferred with prestigious Diana International Award 2014. She also received the coveted 2013 Youth Environmental Conservation Award from the John Muir Association in the United States, International Eco Hero Award 2014 by Action for Nature USA, and Puruskar (at National Level in India) shortlisted as Best Student Paryavaran Mitra Leader for Change 2013. Simran has won 5 National Academic awards in consecutive years. In 2012, she stands as the youngest girl from MiddleEast to carry Olympic torch at London Olympics 2012 in UK Connected across several global platforms -Global Youth Board of Plant-for-the-Planet since 2013, Regional Middle East Ambassador for TUNZA Eco Generation since 2012, a Youth Activator for the Middle East Earth Charter International & the Climate Leader and UAE Ambassador for United States’ former Vice President, Al Gore’s Climate Reality. As a speaker and youth advocating environmental sustainability, Simran has attended over three-dozen International conferences, youth forums, traveled to over two dozen countries making presentations to help mobilize youth, including Rio+20, UNFCCC Doha COP 18, International Youth Forum 2012, 6th World Water Forum 2012, GYEF 2012, & Eye on Earth Summit 2011, Annual Youth Assembly at United Nations Head Quarters USA 2013 and First World Hindu Conference 2014. Simran recently spoke as the youth panelist at United Nation’s First Arab States Regional South-South Development Expo 2014 Qatar. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPrcaOrDSc4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH4ZKVK3nXQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nni2MtvO-Bs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8-quViJIRg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYi5rFghwFg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MX6nwirH1jI www.about.me/simranvedvyas.com www.synergyouth.weebly.com Organization Supporting is listed in CSO Database- http://esango.un.org/civilsociety/showProfileDetail.do?method=showProfileDetails&tab=1&profileCode=621691 http://www.slideshare.net/SimranVedvyas/simran-vedvyas-cv-2014 www.about.me/simranvedvyas.com www.synergyouth.weebly.com | http://www.slideshare.net/SimranVedvyas/simran-vedvyas-cv-2014 | www.synergyouth.weebly.com | |||||
7 | 4/24/2015 7:29:56 | Das | Samir Kumar | International Movement for Advancement of Education Culture Social & Economic Development (IMACSED) | India | Indian | Male | 01 /11 /1950 | English | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am confident of my expert knowledge to run and develop the new committee with an innovative idea. The basic premise of the two components of response - adaptation and mitigation would appear to have significant import for the problem of climate change. If I be a member of the selection committee I can implement some new topics and idea which is very significant for developing countries to reflect the ability to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. I can assure you my best performance, capability, expert professional knowledge and readiness to address this global problem. It will improve our NGO's status and dignity in the world market. I am fully engaged with many UN and other International Organizations and working full time to improve my experience in different categories of activities. I am Member of and attached with OHCHR, UNODC, UNCAC, UNCTAD, UNAIDS. World Bank, IMF, ILO, UNICEF, UNESCO, UNV, ADB, DFID, CICC, etc . Since climate change is already negatively affecting people in many areas, it is necessary to develop methods that will allow people and communities to adapt to the realities imposed by climate change. | Decision-making frameworks are useful for considering choices about climate change responses and focuses on the processes that promote sustained interaction between decision-makers and the scientific / technical community. Decision-making in the context of climate change can be especially challenging due to a number of factors. These include the rapid pace of changes in some physical and human systems, long time lags between human activities and response of the climate system, the high economic and political stakes, the number and diversity of potentially affected stakeholders, the need to incorporate uncertain scientific information of varying confidence levels. The social, economic, psychological, and political dimensions of these decisions underscore the need for ways to improve communication of scientific information and uncertainties. Collaborative decision making can foster innovative, prompt, and efficient responses to changing conditions. It can foster innovative, prompt, and efficient responses to changing conditions, can be initiated with the goal of designing an adaptive management strategy, and shared experience. | Das is a Legal Professional, Human Rights Activist, Educator, Arbitrator, NGO Consultant and is an expert advocate and ordained Legal Adviser. He is best known for furthering and advancement of downtrodden and vulnerable section of the society. He deserves challenging career before the Court of Law and having extended knowledge practical experience on sustainable development, Climate change, Disaster Risk Reduction and various other social & political activities. He is the Principal founder and present Chairman of IMAECSED, an International NGO committed for furtherance its movement under the UN umbrella. He is B.Com, LL.B. from Calcutta University and received three Post Graduate Diploma in International Law and Diplomacy, International Trade & Commercial Law, and Fellowship in Constitution and Parliamentary Affairs. An Advocate in the Apex Court of India having 33 years standing with knowledge of International Law. Ex Vice Chair of ABA Foreign Legal Consultant committee. He is very active and engaged with UNODC, OHCHR, UNCAC, UNEP, IMF, World Bank, ILO, UNV, UN WIRE, ADB, W.T.O., H.R.E.A, ICTY, ICTR, ICJ, ICC, HRC, HRF, DFID, etc. Because of versed knowledge in various UN Human Rights mandate, various Reports,Treaties, strong dedication & good presentation and communication skills IMAECSED became an active and well-respected member of many international networks and projects. He is enjoying proven track record, understanding and expert knowledge in various Intl. issues, helps the above NGO associated with many International Org. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9Ar8-O1s-lGdlpIbVdfWVNUckk/view?usp=sharing | |||||||
8 | 4/24/2015 8:35:29 | Arif | Mian Zaryab | A World at School | Pakistan | Pakistan | Male | 15 | English, Urdu, Hindi | No | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I like to share my experience with other fellows | I organised several sevents in Pakistan to enhance the value of climate. I started many projects here on climate change | her. I am son of a businessman/politician Muhammad Arif Imran My parents named me Zaryab Arif but when I was 12 years old I was titled as “Mian” by the public. I joined many of the international Organizations including United Nations, A World at School, World Youth Parliament, World Youth Alliance, and World Youth Movement for Democracy. I am also working as Member United Nations Association for United States of America and Member World Youth Parliament for Water I was titled as Youth Advocate by international organization in the end of May 2014 and Pearl of Asia by a group of International Community. I passed my matriculation in the age of 13 years and I had passed my intermediate examination in the age of 15 years old. I am fond of studies and love to read novels and research papers. I am a well known political personality in my country as well as internationally. I joined the political field when I was only 8 years old. I opened my first public secretariat after 2 years in political field. I have my public offices in more than 15 countries now. I stand for democracy because I saw the Martial Law draw backs in my early childhood. I saw when it’s time for playing with toys we have to face the exiles and law and order situation everywhere. I think it’s the main reason that I stand for Democracy and for Public. I don’t want to be the Prime Minister or the president I want to do something that can be helpful to the people because to be a real hero it’s not compulsory to be the ruler of some kingdom. I am a liberal minded person and hate extremism and raised voice for that. I believe in Give Respect Have Respect Policy. I raised my voice for education and against extremism and terrorism. I always plan to do something which will be in benefit of the public. I visited hundreds of schools and met the children and listened their grievances about the educational system. I also prepared many policy papers and on my request the missing facilities are provided to the schools visited b me. I also provide opportunity to every child to come and lead us. I worked against terrorism and showed solid stand on the issues of the Nigerian Girls abducted by the BokoHaram. I organized a public gathering meeting on that issue and BringBackOurGirls rally also moved on the streets of Pakistan as well as all around the world to show solidarity with Nigerian Girls. If I can do everything in this small age than I can achieve a big goal in mature age also. I am working to be a name of peace, education and water Savior one day. I hope I will achieve my goal. | http://www.aworldatschool.org/ | |||||||
9 | 4/24/2015 12:15:19 | Pouponneau | Angelique | SIDS Youth AIMS Hub- Seychelles | Seychelles | Seychelloise | Female | 24 | English, French | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | We would like to give a voice to young people from island developing States as if action is not taken by all internationally we will lose our homes and the risk of extinction of a nation becomes a reality. We feel a young islander would be best suited to pass this message on. | As islanders we know we will be the first to be affected and have the most to lose. A group of youth from small island developing states in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean and Mediterranean and South China Seas decided we needed our own legal entity in order to ensure youth voice could be heard nationally and internationally. The Chapter in the Seychelles has also participated in the regional movement to provide education on sustainable development and teaching young people about their role to achieve a sustainable future. We firmly believe that sustainable development and climate change cannot be divorced. We also engage in inspiring young people to protect the environment by organising snorkels, dives and hikes and provide career talks on ocean conservation. We don't only mobilise and educate but act. We organise tree planting activities and advocate for youth participation in national decision making processes. | Angelique Pouponneau co-founded the Seychelles chapter of SIDS Youth AIMS Hub in the Seychelles. She continues to actively to the work of the NGO when it comes to organising activities that brings all stakeholders together such as "youth and high level exchange and discussion" she organised. She follows closely climate affairs using social media but has also sat in on a ministerial meeting for the Alliance of Small Island States. She has written a number of blogs and articles on the plight of small island states. She was selected to speak before a crowd of a 1000 young people to address the question of grassroots action on climate change. She is available to speak in June and can obtain a visa to do so. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmCvJV__UvY | http://www.syah.org/ | ||||||
10 | 4/24/2015 16:18:39 | Muiruri | Esther | Ecopro Initiative | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | 22 | English, Swahili | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am a young person who is currently doing Masters course on Environmental Planning and Management paying key attention to Climate Change and Disaster Management. I have a degree in Geography and Environmental Studies where professionally I have taken the climate change path as my area of research interest. I have conducted several activities leading up to climate change mitigation, attended several Climate Reality Project talks in Kenya, UNEP Tunza Conference as well as several forums on sustainable Transport to reduce carbon emissions. In 2014, I participated in the ThinkEatSave UNEP Campaign which aimed at reducing food wastage in our campus among other initiatives. I have as well accumulated a lot of knowledge of the subject matter from my Nobel prize winner Professor, Prof. Richard Odingo, the former vice-president of IPCC, which I would be glad to share with the whole world and deliberate ways on how young people can take up climate change actions for a better future. | Climate Change in Kenya is a great concern to the nation given its adverse effects on our agriculture, fisheries and tourism which wholly depend on climatic conditions. As young people, we understand our capacities as a country and we agree that we do not have the mechanism to coup with climate change effects. Therefore, with a group of other young people, we joined hands and formed http://www.ecoproinitiative.org/ which is a youth led organisation which aims at empowering youths through environmental sustainability projects. In our journey towards climate change adaptation has been of a series of environmental campaigns, community clean ups, tree planting, climate change talks and workshops as well as participating in conferences such as the world conference on disaster risk reduction where I held a breakout session on the link between environment, disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. | Am 22 years old with a Bachers degree in Geography Environmental studies and currently doing my masters in environmental planning and management from the University of Nairobi. Ecopro Initiative is a youth led organisation aimed at empowering young people through environmental sustainability and therefore all our activities are environment driven. I am a good public speaker which I have attained from my experience in talking to people especially championing for climate change in different activities, programmes and forums. In march, I presented on youth taking actions on DRR during the World Conference on DRR in Sendai Japan. With time I have build my confidence in sharing my experiences because I aim on inspiring more young people like across the world to take up developmental actions to drive forward the post2015 agenda. | http://www.ecoproinitiative.org/ | |||||||
11 | 4/24/2015 17:17:19 | Soares | Alveno | Youth Federation of Cape Verde | Cape Verde | Capeverdian | Male | 29 | Portuguese, English and French | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like to speak at this event, to be able to express what the youth of my country think about climate change and what we as island country can say in the matter. Also alert to world leaders that we young people in developing countries are aware of these changes and we want to participate in local and global strategies to combat it. All this because the future is done now and we young people have to be aware of the world we want tomorrow and tomorrow parra the terms we have to do today, right now. | Our country because it is a very young country (+ 65% of the population) and for having the independence almost 40 years, we have invested in the strength of our youth to carry out activities for children such as cleaning campaigns in communities but mostly on the beaches, as we are an archipelago of 10 islands and we are in the middle of the Atlantic ocean and thus suffer from the trash from the African West Coast and released by boats in the ocean. Also as a social activist've been working on promotional activities in secondary schools because we have to invest in young people as the future and the change of thinking is very important for us to have a climatically best planet in the near future we come. | The Cape Verdean Youth Fedederação is an institution that brings together leagues of Youth Associations across the country and aims estretar youth participation in social diverentes quadranyes and També make these young people feel with time and are the voice of their own needs. It has wide range of activities such as: training, awareness, national and international youth exchange, social nature activities, sports and health. The have been responsible for environmental volunteering Youth Center of my island, but I also Experiença in other walks of life including'm univesitario student 3rd year Social Service Course, already represented the youth of Cape Verde by Trez (3) times internationally (2012 - Global Youth Forum, Bali - Indonesia, 2013 - Pre-Conference Africa Population and Development ICPD, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia; 2014 - 7th Meeting Tie South / South on HIV / AIDS, Cochabamba - Bolivia). Having also partcipado Youth Council of Ministers of Cape Verde (the area of Youth and Social Security). | http://fcj.org.cv/ | |||||||
12 | 4/24/2015 19:03:54 | Mofokeng | Khotso | Congress Students Movement | South Africa | South African | Male | 25 | English | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | It will be a great deal of opportunity for a young person like in SA to address the issues of climate change in and around my country and share some of the ideas student's came with in fighting climate change, as continuous threat to our lives and our precious planet. Also will serve as the perfect chance to educate our elderly about climate change, as it heats hard on them in particular andwe have draw the aattention to that effect. Me speaking at the event will also make my job spreading the word of climate change in my country more easily as people will start to see and belive in what we educate them about and start to take it seriously from the ground level. | I and my student's counterparts, assisted rural farmers from escaping hash conditions of heat damaging their life stocks and helping them with making of a pond for domestic animals. It was of great help as the area of limpopo in SA is on a very mountainous location with open view of hush sun rise and server weather conditions for both humans and animals and at the end managed to save money for farmers and their life stock and managed to breed and sell of their respective produce and create employment on the farm to be able to look after the life stock with method's we provided them with. | I'm from Johannesburg in South Africa, i hold a MBA national diploma and Bsc Law Student. I'm a seating Acting General Secretary of Congress Students Movement a chapter of Congress of the People COPE. I'm also the Congress National Committee member of COPE and the Director of Youth Connector, a youth NGO organisation that runs an advocacy on constitutional education of SA, sports, Agricultural amenities, commerce and youth education on sexuality and Orientation. I'm also the Congress National Committee of member of Congress Youth Movement, a chapter of COPE on the youth chapter. | I can't upload on the link below provided. My phone has a problem!!! | I can't upload on this link. My phone is a problem!!! | ||||||
13 | 4/24/2015 21:37:02 | Bertoglia | Santiago | PUEBLO DE LA NACIÓN ARGENTINA | REPÚBLICA ARGENTINA | ARGENTINA | Masculino | 53 años | Español | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Lamentablemente no puedo estar presente en esta reunión. Mi familia y otras familias del Pueblo Argentino están en peligro por la existencia de un grupo numeroso de criminales. Estos criminales GENOCIDAS deben ser detenidos y juzgados. El Pueblo Argentino merece ser liberado y también merece conocer sus Derechos Humanos. Para esto se precisa todo el apoyo internacional de la ONU, la complejidad no puede ser atendida por una sola persona. Se le debe quitar el apoyo al Gobierno Nacional y al Estado Nacional ya que son los pricipales criminales, violando la CONSTITUCIÓN DE LA NACIÓN ARGENTINA en forma permanente. En otra oportunidad estaré presente el la reunión. Saludo cordial. | Mientras los Derechos Humanos no sean vivenciadas por las Familias, "un hecho concreto de conocimientos", Mujeres, Hombres, Niñas y Niños seguiran sufriendo y muriéndose de formas inhumanas. El cambio climático será una anécdota. | Participante de los Procedimientos de la Corte Penal internacional y RSS - Local | https://docs.google.com/document/d/17nOwSFejp9EKoWtpsG2Mg9lzMnBqy4imQEkRwjrJnt8/pub | http://www.dpn.gob.ar/ | ||||||
14 | 4/24/2015 23:09:26 | Shobande | Phillip | Insights for Youths Initiative | Nigerian | Nigerian | Male | 22 | English | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at the event because I see it as a very useful medium to share all that I have researched and learnt about the ecosystem, climate change its consequences and how to effectively manage the scourge. I have written various articles and spoken at my university and other places on the best way to manage the development and even make it become a money spinner. Coming from a nation like Nigeria that perform a lot of ozone depleting activities, I know that I am in good stead to bring to the world how we are solving climate change issues nationally and in our local houses. | In Nigeria, we have found out that our problems are peculiar to us and we have overtime researched peculiar ways to solve them. The gas flaring condition on our onshore drilling was extremely degrading, as a nation that produce crude oil in large quantity there was the need to begin to look for how to channel the gas into gainful use. the Gas turbine project and | 1. Phillip is the executive director of the Insights for Youths Initiative ( one of Nigeria's leading youth participatory organisation) and oversees the organisation and her programmes He is also a member of the United Nations Youths Association in Nigeria and a member of the World youths alliance. He was a panelist at. the youth roundtable on development and environmental degradation. He has had various speaking engagements on the shores of west Africa. 2. He is an authorised public speaker of the GemStone speakers network and the Greenworld foundation. He can address the relevant topics and guiding questions because of his deep knowledge database which he shares on his columns and articles about the issues of climate. He has demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders as he has been invited twice to roundtables with government and corporate players on various issues of national discourse. He is a compelling public speaker as attested to by listeners of his various speaking sessions. He is available to be in New York on 28-29 June 2015 and for travel if necessary. He is able to obtain one within 2 weeks for travel to New York. 3. With over five years of public speaking experience, he is extremely comfortable with speaking at gatherings. | ||||||||
15 | 4/25/2015 0:45:57 | Athal | Krishna | YUVA | Mauritius | Mauritian | Male | 27 | English, French, Hindi | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Being the chairman and president of the largest youth organisation in Mauritius (YUVA - http://yuvamauritius.com), i firmly believe that the Mauritian youth community will reach another level of empowerment and encouragement after my intervention at this event. Very few, or i must say none, young Mauritians have been heard at the UN event. So, this is not only a mere participation for the country, but a very determining one. | As the chairman and president of YUVA, i've worked out strategies and implementation plans for YUVA to invest in the service ethic of youth in order to foster individuals in our society who understand local and global needs, and who are deeply committed to work to relieve those needs through personal service, partnership, and good will. We are here to promote good environment, protect our trees and advance the thinking of people while dealing with mother nature. | I have received various leadership initiative awards from national and international bodies. Former chairman of the National Youth Council of Mauritius, i authored the ‘Ramrajya: An Enigmatic Leader’s Rise to Power’ book. A passionate of poems, photography, transformational leadership and modern political thought, i am currently a member of the MSM party and national president of YUVA Mauritius. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD6LbRwWtAw | https://www.dropbox.com/s/comwbvjedj3s2me/Athal-brief-CV-2015.pdf?dl=0 | http://yuvamauritius.com/ | |||||
16 | 4/25/2015 6:32:16 | Banda | Luke | youth parliament | Malawi | Malawian | male | 22 | English | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am applying to speak at the UN general assembly on climate change primarily because of my excellent communication skills and my vast understanding of climate change as regards my major at Mzuzu University which happened to be Geography. | In my role as As a youth parliamentarian, I intend to work towards ensuring Environmental Sustainability in my community as a way of dealing with climate change. I am hopeful that this will be achieved through coordinated effort with local leaders, MP's, local counselors and with the decision makers to basically prevent people in my community from cutting down trees unnecesarily. I believe Environmental Sustainability can also be achieved through working towards ensuring that there is improved sanitation and water hygiene. i believe that governments need to prioritize Recycling as a measure of controlling climate change. I think we can begin addressing climate change by doing our part to reduce material consumption eventually reducing what we throw away, also by reusing what we already have, and also recycling can further reduce our carbon footprint thus reducing climate change. | My name is Luke S.P Banda. I am a 21 year old young malawian who just completed a bachelor of Arts in Education degree. I am currently a youth parliamentarian (pending) for Lilongwe city centre constituency. Among the many reasons why I should be selected to speak at the opening ceremony for the UN general Assembly on climate change is the fact that I have excellent communication skills. With such skills, I believe that I can competently liaise with all concerned members in taking an active role towards reducing climate change. As a youth parliamentarian i represent community action groups, schools, colleges, youth forums and youth centers so as to broaden their audience as widely as possible. As such that is evidence enough that i am a competent public speaker. | ||||||||
17 | 4/25/2015 8:18:02 | Nduchwa | Mavis | Uncharted Africa Safaris Co. | Botswana | Botswana | Female | 32 | English, Tswana, Kalanga | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | For me it will be a platform to empower the people out there as well as inspire the youth to involve themselves in such good course initiatives. | My story is simple, i am a farmer and a conservationist at heart. when at the farm i teach people around my area the importance of using resources such as solar instead of generators, why they should dispose of their trash into provided trash cans over burning them which might lead to veld fires and polluted skies. why it is important that they plough across slope not along it. Basically why they should look after the environment. My village recently won the award for the cleanest village in Botswana. So the issue of climate action is a matter close to my heart. i come from a village of not more than 1000 people. I work for Uncharted Africa Safari Company, when i am not busy we teach pupils from the local schools about the climate changes and the things we can do to contribute. I believe that education is power in all of this, teach the pupils why it is important that they throw away rubbish in the bin than in the wild, use examples, go out there and meet the people. | The following link gives a brief discription on some of my work that i do. https://youngafricanleaders.state.gov/lets-all-go-green/ I am a confident public speaker, my job entails that, when i address people and pupils from school i enjoy the platform i get. I work as a lodge manager at a lodge called Planet Baobab in Botswana. I also run and oversee Chabana farm, where we do integrated farming using various organic methods. I believe that the future of our earth lies within us the youth. We are better equipped to go out there and be earth ambassadors | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQWr47ROUpHRURldDNCbDhkTGc/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzQWr47ROUpHdkdHbGx6Tnh6Z2s/view?usp=sharing | www.unchartedafrica.com | |||||
18 | 4/25/2015 8:27:40 | Onik | Najmus | Action AId | Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | Male | 19 | English , Hindi , Bangle | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak about global climate change action , the industrial waste , the ice melting on Antarctica and green house effect and saving wild life and rare speaceas with very much importance and attention to the global medium for raisin awareness and better fund. | Climate change is a global problem and issue that becoming a major sector to look after and care about , the last time me and our org. had worked on climate change was planting trees and help cleaning water land , it was successful and we made a change on our society | My name is Namus Shakib , im 19 living at Bangladesh , im a musician and enter-pruner of gems industry and hospital , my father is doctor and mother house wife , my family background is political my grand father was minister of Bangladesh parliament that's where influence came from and I became good at speaking | http://www.actionaid.org/bangladesh | |||||||
19 | 4/25/2015 8:45:54 | Mchenya | Petrider Paul | Youth of United Nations Associations of Tanzania | The United Republic Tanzania | Tanzanian | FEMALE | 22 | English , & Swahili | Yes | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | So as I can air out my voice as a youth representing my fellow youth from Africa and the world to have a call for action to the world towards climate change , since Africa is victimized in the actions done by developed nations and even wit various sanctions imposed to them through the agreements of the kyoto protocol it is still not adhered as a young person who has vividly seen the change of climate cane and felt the impact within Tanzania I would like to speak this out and probably have my voice heard by Global leaders towards a speedy act in reversing the amounts of emissions since the earth we share the same air and we shall all face the same impacts to some even worse. | My climate action began in 2013 in the process of enhancing the Millennium Development Goals was showcased in the 1st Tanzania International Model UN , which is a simulation of the United Nations General Assembly were I represented climate change issues focusing on goal 07 of the MDG's with the main aim of ensuring on environmental sustainability , however even in the advocacy activities toward the Eastern Africa Regional Model UN in 2013 wic I participated in that was done in secondary schools and Universities in which the theme was climate cane I managed together with my team to influence various representatives in strategic ways to tackle climate cane situations and adaptation processes | Ms. Petrider Paul is part of the National Executive Committee Members at the Youth of United Nations Associations of Tanzania (YUNA) National leader at YUNA Headquarters, also representative of the East Africa Community Youth Ambassadors Platform were she has participated towards climate change actions to ensure eco-friendly sustainability within the EAC region together with ForumCC Tanzania offices , She is currently pursuing her BA in International Relations, (Electing International Economic Relations ) at The University of Dodoma. , she is equipped with skills in Civic ethics, Public administration , Public protocol and State protocol , she is also a member of ForumCC – the Tanzanian Civil Society Forum on Climate Change –is an association of civil society organisations committed to work on climate change in their own programmes as well as through advocacy. It brings together development and environment organizations, those with technical skills and those with a more delivery and advocacy focus. This combination of organisations is important to ensure effective engagement of civil society that draws on the range of skills and perspectives of different organizations, such as linking the research groups with those that can use research findings for advocacy. we believe she will represent well the Youth of United Nations Association of Tanzania representing the United Nations of Tanzania youth society , she can also be able to obtain a Visa within two weeks of selection and travel to ensue full participation in the dates mentioned | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fIvvqfTisYT1hucXdUUm5nV00/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fIvvqfTisYMGQ5U1VVQWhNRFE/view?usp=sharing | http://www.yunatz.org/ | |||||
20 | 4/26/2015 4:17:23 | Njoroge | Eric Mwangi | The World Energy Foundation | Kenya | Kenyan | Male | 26 | English, Swahili and Kikuyu (mother tongue) | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The participation of youth in development matters is very important as we are agents and promoters of change so we must participate actively, influence the decisions makers in the Governments of the world. We bring to the conference a strong climate action circumstance from an African perspective. Since we are helping build a generation-wide movement to be the solutions to the current global crises and a force to challenge the way we currently do business, our participation at the summit will also help bring back new ideas to support our work now and in the future. Coming to New York is also a unique chance to share our experience with and learn from others whose hard work all over the globe makes the dream of a decent and just life for our communities within our reach. We have a firm obligation to provide a platform for communities so that they will be inspired to realize their potential and contribute to the social, economic and cultural welfare of the society. We believe that in empowering the younger generation in a sustainable manner through our initiatives, they will also empower their own generation. We strongly believe our participation in your event will enhance our global exposure to voice for Africa’s energy poor people as the lack of reliable, affordable energy is a binding constraint to economic growth and to human development. | Our work in Africa has commenced in Burkina Faso where nearly half of the 18 million citizens live below the poverty line, and GDP per capita hovers around $1,400 annually, about half of the tax return for the average American. If that doesn’t put things into perspective, maybe this will: the average American pays $100 a month on their cell phone alone. That’s $1200 a year. The point is that developed countries live in a bubble, unexposed to the inequality that exists throughout the rest of the world. In Burkina Faso, the citizenship has lower than a 30% literacy rate and an infant mortality rate that falls in the 25th percentile of the rest of the world. In a country where 0% of energy production takes advantage of the intense sun energy beating down on the landscape, it’s no wonder the people live in such poverty. The goal of The World Energy Foundation is to harness the power of nature and give back the right to read a book, to see a doctor, to drink clean water or to provide for a family. Our pilot project in Mogtedo, Burkina Faso aims to deliver a solar system in a women’s birthing center. Electricity in this medical facility translates to life saving care that impacts the lives of thousands of Burkinabes. By installing an electrical infrastructure in this facility that utilizes renewable solar energy, uninterrupted by unreliable grids or government controlled shut downs, the direct impact on this community have exponential resonance for years to come. | I am Eric Mwangi Njoroge born and raised in Central Kenya. I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Agribusiness Management of Egerton University in Kenya as well as several Certificates/Diplomas in distant learning short climate change courses from respected Universities in Europe and the World Bank Institute. I am interested in Climate Change and Renewable Energy development in Africa as well as Clean Technologies, Low Carbon Economy, Energy Efficiency, and the likes. My current affiliations include Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Climate CoLab as a 2015 Fellow; Sagaci Research Expert Council as an expert in the Electricity, Power and Utilities, Energy sector(s) in Kenya; the Climate and Development Knowledge Network as an independent expert in some cross-cutting climate change competencies; and the United Nations Volunteers programme with interests in the energy sector, Climate change mitigation and mechanisms for technology transfer, and Policy, regulation, planning and education and capacity building; as well as a contributor to the multi-author blogs of the Network of African Youths for Development, the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation and the World Energy Foundation. I have graduate studies planned (MSc. Climate Change and Development at the University of Sussex in the UK) from September 2015 where for my mandatory research project, I aim to examine how the low-carbon energy transition is affecting land and water resources and implications for food security, sustainable water management and climate change governance in sub-Saharan Africa. Thus far, I have written and presented two papers on the international stage: one at the 2014 African Youth Day celebration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia at the Africa Union headquarters on 30 October – 02 November 2014 whose title is “Counteracting the Disproportionate Burden of Climate Change On Women” and second at the Think Tank Event on Science and Policy Options on Climate Change and Fisheries in Africa on 27 - 28 November 2013 at the Sun n’ Sand Holiday Resort, in Mangochi, Malawi titled “What can the youth do to safeguard fisheries and aquaculture against climate change?”. If chosen to attend this summit, I will be granted leave of absence and can obtain a visa in a timely manner from the U.S. embassy here in Nairobi. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5QyqEbUzf2_M1NPZTRvX3padlk/view | https://theworldenergyfoundation.org/ | ||||||
21 | 4/26/2015 12:03:59 | Lickiby | Brusly Clichy | Association Congolaise pour le bien-etre familial | CongoBrazzaville | Congolaise | masculin | 24 | Français | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Ce forum est une opportunité de faire entendre la voix des jeunes de notre Mouvement au niveau mondial. À travers cette opportunité, je souhaiterais promouvoir encore d'avantage cette force de notre mouvements sur les question du changement climatique. En effet,je voudrais prendre la parole à cet événement, pour être en mesure d'exprimer ce que les jeunes de mon pays pense sur le changement climatique et ce que nous en tant que pays insulaire peut dire en la matière. Aussi alerte aux dirigeants du monde que nous, les jeunes des pays en développement sont conscients de ces changements et nous voulons participer à des stratégies locales et mondiales pour la combattre. Tout cela parce que l'avenir est fait maintenant et nous jeunes gens doivent être conscients du monde que nous voulons demain et demain parra les termes que nous avons à faire aujourd'hui, dès maintenant. | g and from a developing country - travel funding provided) I would like to speak at this event, to be able to express what the youth of my country think about climate change and what we as island country can say in the matter. Also alert to world leaders that we young people in developing countries are aware of these changes and we want to participate in local and global strategies to combat it. All this because the future is done now and we young people have to be aware of the world we want tomorrow and tomorrow parra the terms we have to do today, right now. | Actuellement membre volontaire, membre du mouvement action jeunesse, expert en santé sexuelle et santé de la reproduction, pair-éducateur en santé sexuelle et de la reproduction , de la planification familiale et administrateur du site web www.tictacados.org qui est une plate-forme de communication et d’échange interactive en matière de la santé sexuelle et de la reproduction au sein de l’association Congolaise pour le bien-être familial (ACBEF) . En effet, jeune très dynamique et apte dans- la gestion, l'élaboration des projets de la Santé Sexuelle et de la Reproduction y compris le VIH/SIDA liés aux jeunes au sein de notre Association. J’ai la chance d’avoir déjà une certaine expérience internationale, grâce au mouvement action jeunesse, à mes études et ma passion pour le voyage et la rencontre interculturelle; sources de nombreux apprentissages qui me font épanouir un peu plus chaque jour. Je suis déjà impliqué bénévolement dans l’ACBEF depuis plus de deux ans maintenant. Je travaille sur les questions de santé sexuelle et de la reproduction et la planification familiale et j’ai déjà eu de nombreuses occasions de représenter l’ACBEF dans des organisations internationales comme le Forum mondial sur la politique de la Jeunesse à Bakou du 28 au 30 Octobre 2014, et je pense pouvoir y contribuer modestement et également apprendre énormément de cette expérience. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Currently voluntary member, member of the Youth Action Movement, sexual health expert and reproductive health, sexual health peer educator and reproduction, family planning and www.tictacados.org website administrator who is a platform forms of communication and interactive exchange on sexual health and reproduction within the Congolese Association for Family Welfare (ACBEF). Indeed, young dynamic and able dans- management, project development Sexual Health and Reproductive including HIV / AIDS-related youth within our Association. I am fortunate to already have some international experience, with the Youth Action Movement, my studies and my passion for travel and cultural exchange; sources of many learnings that make me grow a little more each day. I am already involved in volunteer ACBEF for over two years now. I work on issues of sexual and reproductive health and family planning and I have already had many opportunities to represent ACBEF in international organizations such as the Global Forum on Youth Policy in Baku from 28 to 30 in October 2014, and I think I can contribute modestly and also learn a lot from this experience. | http://www.acbef.org/ | |||||||
22 | 4/26/2015 15:46:18 | ATENCHONG | JEAN-JACQUES | LEWOH STUDENT ASSOCITION | CAMEROON | CAMEROON | MALE | 25 | ENGLISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | to best demonstrate our activities for the pass five years to the world in general and cameroon in particular | we have been planting trees which was greatly sponsored my our association fund . Each summer holiday,the association select a number of ten students which they are fund,accomodated and they have feeding for aperiod of two weeks where there are gretly encourage by the fon of fontem ,the highest traditional authority in the locality. we plant trees in a chronological manner and according to wind blow and mountain eruptions in the locality of lewoh south west region of cameroon | i earned in bachelor degree in sociology specialised in population and development. i am the president of the lewoh student association in cameroon.With this position as president, i have the role to work collectively with my menbers in the organisation and one of our objective is to improved on the climate situation of our locality lewoh all members have the obligations to meet once every month to discuss important issues which one is of climate change in our locality lewoh. Beside,the planting of youkalestus trees in the locality was due to the crucial climate change experience during the rainy season which is set for planting of maize was greatly affecting by constant sun and sunrise Taking the role to speak, is a passion and has alway be a duty for me becaues i hold a presidential position where every meeting season, i am obliged to speak to the public | ||||||||
23 | 4/26/2015 18:25:29 | Olaniyan | Toluwase | Peak performance house | Nigeria | Nigerian | male | 26 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | To create a sense of inclusiveness in young people propelling them to be better climate change ambassador | I have always advocated for peak performance in every sphere of life same as climate change, the days of global warming has made me part of teams that have sent petitions to the government of Nigeria in climate maintainance issues | Toluwase Olaniyan is the first from a family 4 children, an accounting graduate from Ahmadu Bello University, zaira. Toluwase is currently the Executive director at The Peak Performance House, he is passionate about people development and environmental management. | http://www.Peakperformancehouse.com/ | |||||||
24 | 4/26/2015 21:23:20 | Diamante | Ancilla | Assumption College | Philippines | Filipino | Female | 18 | English, Filipino | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | May I be given a chance to be heard. I wish to simply tell stories of little triumphs we have locally done in our country. So much had been said and reported on foreign aid and assistance. But I wish to tell the world that, as we need foreign aid, please be assured also that we do help each other. We are workers in the strict sense of the word. I want to tell the world that we can be a resilient people. | Improvement of drainage in our barangay (village). Also, consistent education information on risk management and disaster relief operations are often given to youth and able bodies citizens. Drills like earthquake, typhoon drills are almost always done. | The nominee, Ancilla had been a Youth Leadership Awardee when she graduated in High school. Now that she is doing her college studies at the Pontifical University of Santo Tomas as an occupational therapist, it had been her dream of making a change in the world. | may I submit this later? | http://www.assumption.edu/ | ||||||
25 | 4/27/2015 5:17:57 | Singhania | Ritesh | Avani Bio Energy | India | India | Male | 29 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | In a world of continuously increasing energy demand, which is straining fragile ecosystems to the edge, we have developed energy production and delivery systems from socially and ecologically harmful material – pine needles, which shed every year in the mountains during summer months. Our innovation will provide energy for the rural poor by making energy production process enhance the ecosystem instead of stressing it. I want to speak at this point to illustrate the point that it is point to think about sustainability from three aspects - Economic, environment, and social in the solutions that we develop. | Jamuna Devi lives in Tripuradevi, a remote village in Central Himalayas with her family. She walks 5 miles everyday collecting fuel wood, before she can cook a meal for her family. Talk to Jamuna, and she recounts that she walks longer every year to collect fuel, while access to water, herbs, and timber is also diminishing. Her family does not have a permanent source of income and their existence in this village is at stake. Come summers, the forest around her village rages with fire spread by pine needles, destroying natural resources. While, the fire destroys life around her, Jamuna wonders if this energy could be used to meet her needs. Our solution employs her family to collect pine needles, offering them employment, stable power supply and cleaner cooking solution. The by- product of the process is briquetted into cooking charcoal for the local people, preventing the cutting of trees for fire wood. Local talent is trained to operate the power plant, and develop as entrepreneurs to manage the supply chain of pine needles and charcoal briquetting. We have set up world's first pine needle fuelled power plant, which has the potential to provide clean electricity to 62,000 people in this area. In the next five years, we plan to install 20 such power plants, which can impact the lives of 1.25 million people. | I am a first generation college student, graduated in Mechanical Engineering. The three words that I believe are a good representation of my personality and work are – Initiator. Traveller. Creator. I would like to give instances of each of my attributes through the personal and professional experience that I have had. I studied in one of the culturally most diverse universities in India, and developed an interest in exploring the different cultures of my country. Before graduating, I visited each of the 29 states in my country and loved the experience of knowing my country better. I quit my first job, because I was not content professionally with my work, and thought that I could do much more with my time and energy. I leveraged my educational background and professional experience in the manufacturing sector to develop the process to recycle scrapped railway track into spades. I set up a manufacturing unit in my hometown, and built a team of local people, who are running the daily operations of the plant. The unit is currently running profitably and providing employment to about 35 people. This experience acted as a stepping stone for me to create organizations, which would create value in the development of the country. I was offered a month long fellowship to work with a social enterprise, Avani in the Himalayas on a renewable energy project. The company was innovating the technology to generate clean electricity from pine leaves. I realized the importance of the innovation in the development of the country and joined the founding team. I am leading the finance and operations activities in Avani Bio Energy for the first power plant and we are gearing up to set up 4 more power plants next year. I have been identified as one of the 12 emerging leaders from Asia and only leader from India by the Asia Foundation. My global interaction with social innovators in Africa during the design fellowship by MIT and in US, Stanford University has offered me a global perspective about climate problems and puts me in a better position to speak about the issue from a global perspective. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngDXsgZimBw | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BydrLUG_8h4LWF9GY2tJNE51SDA/view?usp=sharing | http://www.avani-kumaon.org/ | |||||
26 | 4/27/2015 8:57:22 | Ntshingane | Bakang | University of Botswana | Botswana | Motswana | Male | 23 | English, Setswana | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I believe my contribution as a young person to the cause of climate change and my studies as a Political Science major at the University of Botswana have set me on a path to effect change. Although organic change within communities is important, world leaders must have a share in effecting this change together with the local farmer who is 800 kilometers from capital cities where knowledge on climate change is in abundance. My experience and interaction with the different agents of change in my community, needs to be shared with leaders who will be present at the event. This is a perfect platform for me as young person to act best as a catalyst who will compel real, tangible action. | As the Vice President of the University of Botswana Debate Masters Association, I have spearheaded public campaigns in collaboration with the Department of Forestry and Range Resources under the Ministry of Environment, Wildlife and Tourism. With the growing concerns of climate change affecting our heavily reliant Agricultural sector, there was a need to stand up and act, and in essence, compel the government of Botswana to act as well. We have thus engaged in consultative workshops with the government and affected stakeholders in order to map a way forward. As a result, more campaigns have been carried out to raise awareness on climate change, and even more action has been taken to arm local rural farmers with invaluable knowledge on climate change and forest conservation under the "Trees For Life " campaign. | As the Vice President of the University of Botswana Debate Masters Association, my role has included extending the mandate of our club beyond just attending and participating in competitive University debates. I have extended an arm to other societies and Non-Governmental organisations in order to collaborate with them on community projects that best benefit society. My experience as a public speaker has instilled in me, a culture of engaging with others on key ideas and concepts. I have engaged with ordinary members of society, government officials, Cabinet Ministers, Media Personnel and academics on several platforms. I have recently returned from a Political Science conference in London, United Kingdom, where I presented a self-authored research paper on Regional Cooperation in Southern Africa. All these opportunities have equipped me with an invaluable amount of experience to be the public speaker that I am, who recognizes the need to use the power of speech to impact the world. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B123u2VK7YCtcXVSa2stWUpxcWM/view?usp=sharing | http://www.ub.bw/ | ||||||
27 | 4/27/2015 9:22:41 | MONG'ARE | LINDA | YALDA | KENYA | KENYAN | FEMALE | 23 | ENGLISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | i would like to give the opening remarks at the opening ceremony because i would like to appeal to the present representatives as a whole to highlight the problem of dumping waste in Africa and the rest of the developing countries by the developed world. i would like to appeal to all members present that they should find alternative means of disposing their waste other than in the African waters and the continent as a whole. i would like to appeal to the companies present on the importance of minding the environment before profits. | in my country of Kenya the effects of climate change are being felt every day. the fumes produced by smoky and old cars have caused skin and other types of cancers, the growing industries that do not adhere to environmental safety have proven to be harmful than beneficial. the problem of dumping in residential areas has also caused young children to die in some areas. my friend and i decided to educate families on safe ways of disposing litter and we also talked to he local ward representative on how they could held sanitize the area to prevent children from contracting diseases. | i am an international relations student at the united states international university Africa. i am a concerned member of my community because Kenya is strongly feeling the effects of climate change, my neighbor was diagnosed with cancer owing to the poor quality petrol vehicles use and they produce toxic fumes. in my community we were facing the problem of waste disposal whereby garbage was being disposed anywhere and young children died playing around there and hence i implored our local council representative and the government removed the waste. i am in a university club called YALDA about young African leadership and i am in the environmental department. i am coming to the conference mainly to point out what Kenya faces in relation to the environment and the little steps we have taken to make a difference. i speak in class during presentations and it is mandatory that each student in a class of 70 speaks in a presentation and hence my public speaking experience, i am also a youth preacher in my local church and i give sermons sometimes including plays. my first time to speak publicly was when i was years old and i gave a sermon in church. | http://www.yaldafrica.org/ | |||||||
28 | 4/27/2015 10:25:51 | ALTARAWNEH | ALI | MILLENNIUM | JORDAN | JORDINIAN | MALE | 32 | ARABIC | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Affect of Renewable Energy on Climate and Global Warming. | 1. Operation and Maintenance of a 25 MW solar Plant in Saudi Arabia , This Plant implemented to save Energy and provide the whole building with the needed hot water over the year and space heating in winter season. we reduced using the fuel and reduce emission of carbon. 2. Operation and Maintenance of a Solar Cooling project with Saudi Aramco , and the goal was using solar thermal system for Air Cooling in Summer. | i hired as project manager for projects that specified in solar system , i did many project in middle east area with important client. the goal of projects is to save fuel and keep the environment clean and green. My Goal is to divert the energy to Clean , by using all available tools and reduce of using oil. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B364GhJ0JC7XVTE3VzNtMGpTZFU/view?usp=sharing | http://millenniumenergy.co.uk/ | ||||||
29 | 4/27/2015 11:24:16 | Ali | Muhammad | D.I.T Planet | Pakistan | Pakistan | Male | 29 | English & Urdu | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change is a issue of everyone so we must act together | I begin my research on climate change in 2007. My first task was to find truth about our planet earth and history of Humanity. All truth information I found written in God books. After understanding of big bang theory we know that there are many other galaxies and planets around our home planet called earth. Humanity facing many challenges now a days like violation of human rights, economies slow down and Climate change or (bad environment of living). We all know that all problem are human made and Human can solve. | I am business man doing my Information Technology business since last 10 years so I have much experience speaking with companies, organization and clients. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_2zcN4nESjMGhJOFRoVFdWMHM/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0_2zcN4nESjMmxid3hvRlRFR2s/view?usp=sharing | http://ditplanet.com/ | |||||
30 | 4/27/2015 11:41:33 | Daas | Ahmad | no | Saudi Arabia | Palestinian | male | 20 | Arabic and English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Opening ceremony | I've started my creative life since I was 10 years old only, I stated making inventions and new ideas at the center of inventory (Local center) in the Same year I got the highest Gp compared with my colleagues and I forced the teacher to approve to parent the ceremony of last year, then I finished the school but good ideas still stirred in my head | I'm student at university at the college of engineering, I've grown in competitive environment, started speech from 10 years old, I love inventions and ideas, I love my life | City center | |||||||
31 | 4/27/2015 13:03:38 | Modi | Vivek | International Center for Culture and Education | India | Indian | Male | 21 | English, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi, Urdu | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I define myself as a passionate change maker. Climate Change is the one of the most burning issues the globe is facing and as a youth as a leader I believe it is my responsibility to speak for change, to take actions to protect mother earth and to inspire others to make united efforts. The platform of United Nations will make my voice reach to the whole world which will get my efforts a global racemization. I want to hear other world leaders on the same topic. I believe in unity. I am from India and I have grown up learning ancient Indian principal which states “Sanghe Shakti Kaloyuge” which means “Unity is the biggest power in today’s era.” I see the opportunity to speak at UN as the first step towards me being the part of the global campaign to create the sustainable, better tomorrow for the mankind. I want to represent my work, ideas and deep desires to bring change in the society by making united efforts. I want to tell the world that we are not Indian, we are not American, we are not African or European we are the world citizen who thrives to make world a better place to live in. We are United Nations. | My organization has launched a program on climate change with the vision to prepare the upcoming generation of leaders to understand climate change and fight for it. With the support of United Nation’s Framework Convention on Climate Change we stared a certificate course for the schools and colleges in India under which the participants have to go learn the about the concept of climate change about its reasons, effects and remedies. They also have to do activities of spreading awareness into the society under various group and individual activities. The response we had of the young participants towards the course was indeed amazing. We created more than 100 leaders across the nation who have led the teams of 25 to 150 members at the regional level towards the better environment for future. Youth leaders took various initiatives and climate projects on their own after the completion of the program and we got number of volunteers who are now trained climate counselors who spreading awareness in the society with all the possible ways like presentations, street plays, speeches, local summits and by preparing new climate leaders. Our efforts got recognized by government, private companies and many leading newspapers of the nation. Our format got replicated and adopted by many organizations in India. Many of the educational institute kept out course as the compulsory subject for the students. We are being huge every day and we are making more and more impact on society by educating people about climate change each day. | I am a civil engineering student, a youth leader and a passionate change maker have got selected for prestigious national fellowships like Inspire Young Scientist Fellowship by Department of Science and Technology, Government of India and Gandhi Fellowship by piramal foundation for education leadership. I joined International Center for Culture and Education as the climate Counselor and then volunteered further for the growth of the organization. I am responsible for building the team of young climate leaders who can carry the movement independently at regional level. I represent the organization at various platforms. I am an environmentalist (Civil Engineer with environment Major) by profession. Environment is just not he subject of interest but passion for me. I have completed numbers of project in the field of environment. I have done research on the impact of solid waste generation and management on climate change. Have represented research papers on the effects of solid waste on environment at many national conferences. We have designed innovative revolutionary waste management system for developing nations for which I have got reorganization by Government of India. I have been leading Indian youth at a global platform. Have attend many youth conferences and forums and represented India in the field of environment, youth leadership and heritage in the countries like Russia, France, UK, Germany, Norway and Malaysia. I am on the post of the President of Student Activity Cell of Gujarat Power Engineering and Research Institute under which I have been speaking at many national and international conferences, events and functions. I have given more than 20 national presentations and speeches having audience more than 5000 and 5 international presentations. I have been a TEDx speaker at TEDx PDPU, Gandhinagar, India. Have won number of awards in the clean energy sector including the Yong Energy Protector Award by Government of Gujarat State. I am the founder of the Raise for Sustainability Global Initiative which is the movement to involve youth in environment preservation and to convert problems into projects. We have 800+ Youth followers connected with our movement from all over the world. Have got published in many leading newspapers, websites and in other local media. My story has been covered twice by the Times OF India. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7k5E87hw_e5MEhKSmczRko1N0E/view?usp=sharing (700MB) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7k5E87hw_e5RVE1dFRSN1JVUFU/view?usp=sharing (22.9 MB) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7k5E87hw_e5cEYyQ1Z1Y1djSlE/view?usp=sharing | http://intcce.org/ | |||||
32 | 4/27/2015 13:33:53 | Allam | Zaheer | International Society of Biourbanism | Mauritius | Mauritian | Male | 27 | English, French, Mauritian Creole | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | This represents an incredible opportunity to share, engage and impact the global community pertaining to issues in relation to climate change. It is a honor to address the Opening ceremony and hope that this will foster relationships to drive environmental advocacy on new levels. | With the help of a few inspiring people, we set ourselves on an incredible task to revise the energy policy in Mauritius. We were certain that yet another coal fired powered plant was not going to help us fight climate change. We are on the front line of climate change, yet we fail to lead by example. I co-founded an NGO in Mauritius primarily based from the youth, that with no funding, or political backing, managed to force the government to re-evaluate national energy policies. We also managed to stop the proliferation of coal in the country, by witnessing the cancellation of a 110MW coal powered plant after numerous marches, protests, & cases in the supreme court of Mauritius. We are now set to fight to achieve a 100% dependency on renewable energy in the near future. | Zaheer Allam is an emerging young thinker in Architecture, Urbanism, Energy and Ecology. Author of numerous papers, his works were featured among the top 20 best of 2013 and influence global debates and policy making. With a background in Architecture and Project Management, he is the co-founder of the Plateforme Citoyenne, a not for profit NGO that advocates for renewable energy in Mauritius. Under the mentorship of Nikos Salingaros, ranked 11th best urban thinker of all times and ranked among the 50 visionaries changing our world, Zaheer works towards fostering resilient communities. In 2014 he was nominated by the United Nations (UN) to represent the civil society in the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean & South China Sea region on the Steering Committee of the UN Small Island Developing States (SIDS) Conference in Samoa. There, he was also nominated to deliver a UN keynote speech on sustainable energy and resilient urbanism. As one of his papers entitled "Invasive Aesthetics: A manifesto for reviving Architectural Identity in Developing Nations", sparked interest at the international conference in India, he was invited as an advisor to the International Conference on Design Pedagogy and Contextual Aesthetics by the National Institute of Technology and the Indian Institute of Architects. He also worked at the Australian Urban Design Research Centre, where he was invited to deliver a guest lecture on New Urbanism at the University of Western Australia. In addition, Zaheer is a speaker for 350, a global organisation advocating for renewable energy, where he delivered a keynote speech on Climate change and the SIDS during the historic People's Climate March in 2014, regrouping 600,000 people worldwide. For his contributions to society he was awarded the Mauritian Excellence Award, and featured among the 10 Outstanding Young Persons of the World. In early 2015, Zaheer was appointed as the African representative & Officer of the International Society of Biourbanism, and invited as part of the Environmental Structure Research Group, based in Oregon, USA. Furthermore, Zaheer Allam was honored to be nominated as the Chair of the International Network for Traditional Building Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) for the Island States Chapter, a global society patroned by His Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales. Whether at a conceptual or concrete level, Zaheer Allam aspires to work that connects to the society and to our planet, thus contributing to the evolution of the world. | https://vimeo.com/channels/321951/107435966 Speech text: http://www.lemauricien.com/article/global-plea-survival-small-island-developing-states | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bw-ZWcZQQYOdYmNBbjdYVDhIeFE&authuser=0 | http://www.biourbanism.org/ | |||||
33 | 4/27/2015 14:44:57 | Ndiritu | Meshack | Motivational Power Project | Ethiopia | Kenyan | Male | 26 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I have undertaken several online courses on the latest negotiations to prepare me for the Paris COP21 and I have realized there is need to increase awareness on the concept of equality and fairness especially in the perspective of different generation. The current generation has burnt fossil fuels, explored unsustainable ways of energy generation, developed industries that have ended up contributing in anthropogenic gas accumulation in the atmosphere. It will be unfair if we leave the next generation to suffer the effects of substances they did not contribute in producing. The voice of the youth is required now more than ever. Coming from the developing world I am fully aware from the fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC that Africa contributes less than 3% of global emissions, yet because climate change knows no boundaries, we have been subjected to unfair climate change effects instigated by Annex 1 countries. I need to raise this voice to prepare the delegates of COP21 to come up with a legally binding document that speaks better than the Kyoto Protocol where members pulled out any time they felt like. | I am a climate change champion and I have been advocating for youth inclusiveness in key decisions about the adaptation and mitigation procedures on climate change; as this group of people is the one to live longer in the effects of this challenge. More sustainably, I have been raising awareness through the Youths in Climate Smart Agriculture project for climate change adaptation across Africa and beyond. | I am a space expert working with the African Union Commission and providing space technology expertise towards the development of an integrated African Sace program. I have undertaken various courses on climate change mitigation and policy instruments used in the negotiation process. I led the formation and registration of Motivational Power Project as an NGO in Kenya to shape the mind of the young scholars in emerging global issues, climate change and disaster risk reduction being among them. I speak with confidence and coersion to create and influential environment in order to mobilize critical actions | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UVla4DDTNrZTlSZlFRUWliakNmbHlYWTFNWmlmem9VNDdn/view?usp=sharing | |||||||
34 | 4/27/2015 15:20:59 | Bhim | Dr. | Dr.MGR university | India | Indian | Male | 22 | Hindi | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | OPGA | First of all I would like to thanks for providing us this great opportunity for young from developing countries and requirements is awareness among the people we already had many policy but some where it's not working properly and for this the main reasons is awareness. So each and every one of us should take it as a duty & responsibility to perform and teach them tell them that what we do now that will be harmful for present as well as for future. We have 90% of literacy rate but if we look at the inside story than everything is nill & we find very difficult to say that the literate are educated or not these are the field which we have to look atat etc...many more things are there to discuss but some where we find very difficult to get out of that stuff so let's try once again for the hope. . | I'm B.Tech civil engineer , a cabinet member in my parliament 2014 (Model Youth of Parliament) , participated in IIT-M (Indian Institute of Technology madras), in VIT-V (Vellore Institute of Technology) and won many Prizes in our UNIVERSITY ,Studying at saidai durasawamy MNT as IAS aspirations and as a cabinet minister in my parliament youth I have managed three department 1. Social justice 2.Tribal Affairs 3. Rural Development etc. | www.drmgrdu.ac.in/ | |||||||
35 | 4/27/2015 19:09:13 | Orre | Hiroya | AIESEC | kenya | kenyan | female | 23 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I like fight for life,and given opportunity to speak at this event,I will bring many things on board such as health status!circumcition,early marriages and all barbaric customs Am victim of FGM so am creating awareness on effect of FGM | I come from minoriest tribe here kenya called Rendille Rendille is nomadic people,whereby they move from one place to another searching for pasture. Most of the time they are affected by climate changes in the region Most of rendille lives in a small location called Kargi.. Kargi is very hostile environment with a lot of obstacles such as lack of water and medication, The area is prompt to cancer cases that has lead to several deaths In 2014 royal media service (standand group )conducted a research on cancer cases I was among the cancer campaigner in the region I guided the team of royal media service to kargi for there research... It was successful though no solutions are applied to date The 'village of deaths'which is named after deaths of several people in kargi has lead many scientists to do research that might cause the deadly disease called'cancer' Water is life! Its researched that consumption of water in kargi has lead huge number of several cancers such as,skin,stomach,throat,cervical. It was a pity to see village of deaths in same conditions but I managed to call for awareness of deadly disease to the government and screening of blood has been conduct to save life in village of deaths | My name is Hiroya orre,am 23years old Am student at jomo Kenyatta university pursing purchasing and supply management I come from smallest tribe here in kenya which practices pastrolist I have 2brothers and 3sister and lovely parents I love music and fashion too Traveling is part of my life too I love doing charity and volunteering jobs most of time | http://aiesec.or.ke/ | |||||||
36 | 4/28/2015 6:25:45 | Ugbe | Evelyn | Women Environmental Programme | Nigeria | Nigeria | Female | 26 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am an ardent advocate for gender equality particularly on issues that affect rural women who constitute the hard to reach women. Effects of climate change grossly affects rural women as their quest for cooking energy exposes them and their environment to health hazard,food shortage and bankruptcy. My participation as Civil Society Speakers at the High-level Event on Climate Change offers the opportunity amplify the voices and concerns of grass root women at the UN general assembly.I want to share with the world the experience of Nigerian women and the role of civil societies in building the resilience to these women to climate change. | Climate change has become a reality and affects people differently particularly along gender dimensions. Nigerian women like other African women are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. The intervention targeted rural women in Kwande Local Government of Benue State Nigeria, through capacity building on construction of fuel efficient wood stoves. The fuel efficiency stoves ensure that less wood is utilized in cooking while preserving and safe guarding the forest. the project targeted 50 women at the inception 32 women efficiently constructed the stoves. The wood stoves have the capacity of saving 40% of cooking time and consumes 40% of fuel wood. Subsequently the project was replicated in over 20 households currently most households in the community have subscribed to fuel efficient wood stoves. | Ugbe Evelyn is the programme officer, has expertise on issues of women and climate change. Miss Ugbe is a grassroots mobilizer and gender activist she facilitated a sensitization forum for grassroots female voters organised by United Nations Development. Furthermore, mobilized the grass root women to form networks for sustained advocacy for women’s right to vote and protect their votes. , she also participated actively in the review of the National Gender Policy and spear headed the incorporation of issues of climate change in the policy document. Evelyn showed resilience and commitment to human development by co-ordinating research on the Impact of State of emergency on the North East economy a project which was implemented at the peak of insurgency. She served at the various committees of the UN Women Civil Society Advisory Group. She has featured on Live T.V programmes particularly the “Nigeria decides 2015 elections” and “Tuesday Live” analysing political issues and advocating for gender equality. She seizes every opportunity to advocate for women’s leadership in climate change, politics and peace building. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2UpimiXlXxdVFWRURLVWczMWs/view?usp=sharing | http://www.wepnigeria.net/ | ||||||
37 | 4/28/2015 8:03:40 | Phiri | Gabriel | UNICEF | Zambia | Zambian | Male | 17 | English,bemba and nyanja | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I not only want to speak but I also want to positively participate because I feel this event is an open platform for children to air out their views and opinions and I want to represent all the children in our developing countries and make sure their views are heard. and this platform will serve in accordance with th UNCRC. The most comprehensive legal groundwork for children’s right to participate (and children’s rights in general) is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). Article 12 of the convention is particularly important | The first project is article writing and sensitization which I do on radio stations such as teens platform on a Christian radio station in Zambia were we talk about climate change as well as teen related issues Article writing I write for a local print media company called times of Zambia and I post same on platforms such as voices of youths an online blog which is run by the UN and since last month we have been hosting an HIV awareness program on a local radio station that has seen huge public response and positive effect on not just the urban youths of our country but as well as the rural youth of which this is very motivating.The second project is Tree plantation project which is done in both schools and communities this small but beneficial and life changing project has been running for three years now and it is a small budgeted society program that has seen the city of Lusaka change as well as its people.mainly on tree plantation the main concept is to replace trees forb example in an event were a tree is cut down you are required to plant two more trees to replace that one, not only that this project sensitizes the general public on various climate issues ranging from mitigation to climate change and same of the possible solutions to stop global warming this project also branches to waste management were we use waste such as paper and turn it into something that can be useful and beneficial and encouraging. | My names are Gabriel Phiri a boy aged 17 and a secondary school pupil at Lusaka secondary school, as well as a climate ambassador under UNICEF Zambia and a children's rights activist under save the children Zambia. my role as a climate ambassador is to sensitize, advocate and monitor in statistics on any environmental hazard or beneficial and positive input in the environment. I have been serving on this role for over three years now and my active commitment has rendered a lot in my work with UNICEF. My past experience in public speaking started through long before I started working with the UN. I have been a host at on of the annual ceremonies in Zambia which was held on independence and I was representing children on a national level I hosted this event in the presence of our former head of state his exallency Mr. Rubia Banda and our UN national coordinator. I also did debate for our school in various provinces and with the help of Media network I hosted the junior mayors live show for a month, I must admit I was nervous, but that’s a good thing. If you’re not nervous about something that you’re about to do, you probably don’t care very much but what added to the anxiety is the fact that I was scheduled as the last presenter and that comes with a lot of responsibility. but all in all I managed to do what I was expected to do | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upTWXIPd2Wo&sns=fb | www.unicef.org/ | ||||||
38 | 4/28/2015 12:09:05 | Cheema | Mubarra | ECO-GREEN SOCIETY Lahore | pakistan | pakistani | female | 25 | english, punjabi, urdu | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I have many reasons to be part of this event.I don’t have vast experience but my information,passion and motivation for having a sustainable environment could manage to pass me out.I want to learn about different techniques and people`s vision through which I help my society and country in sustaining environment and saving it from pollution and the scarcity of resources. I want to share my opinions and thinking in this event.Every animal is benefial for maintaining our environment.We human are responsible in creating pollution,animals maintain our environment pollution free by decomposition and by eating harmful animals/ insects.The thickness of Ozone layer is shrinking day by day just because of chemicals, fumes of dangerous chemicals which also ended up marine life. Health comes first than anything else and the pollution harm our health. So for me this event is an epic platform which could help and support me to move forward and encourages me to take steps to make my country in the list of environmentally health country and along with other countries achieve the goal of world environment sustainability. | As my experience in Eco green society is not much but my successful experiences have helped me alot to know about the climate.I worked during emergency responses,helped,taught and guided people about health hygiene,and future. I also have experience in WASH (water and sanitation hygiene). I worked as a volunteer during 2008 earthquake in Muzaffarabad, 2010 flood in Karachi and 2014 flood in Multan, where have seen with my own eyes how the climate affected the people.I am not from some specific organization,my friends and I decided to help the areas, who had been a victim of this dreadful experience I witnessed there that everything was destroyed they didn’t had anything for survival. So we distributed food and clothes and guide them about sanitary hygiene which helps to save the climate and environment.We put portable toiletries,use bricks for defecation and ask the habitats to put some sand on it as they had no discharge system and this action with eventually increases the soil fertility.Other ways were to dig a whole to drain the garbage in it so it will cause less pollution. I have given training to many social people about how to make our country and environment pollution free.use environment friendly renewable resources and RECYCLE, REUSE and REPRODUCE waste/garbage. Pakistan,a developing country and being a girl I could not research furthermore about these problems,I have to face a lot of hurdles and limitations but the experience which I have; it had told me that environment can be made better by using different tactics. | Mubarra is the most youngest and active member of our organization. She has done her M.Phil. In Human Resource management. She is still a student and in learning phase because she has craze of learning new things which make her soul restless, she has passion to do something for humanity, environment and for her country. She is a part of our organization from last 4 months but my interaction with her is from 2008, where we met first and I notice her activities how she help others and how she and her friends serve for humanity and guide them about future and how they make their environment pollution free by taking small step. She inspires me by her sense of responsibility and passion to do something. Her role in the organization is to response in emergencies and project officer. She is working on project eco-green/eco-friendly environment. She is from remote area where there is no concept of education for girls. She works as a volunteer in different emergencies, she have years of experience, she have experiences to share and the event is a good platform for her.Nothing in this world is useless, even an insect. Mubarra is an enthusiasm leader, she have good communication skills and a good presenter. She had given presentations on different topic to their team and our other partnering organizations. Mubarra possesses a valid visa and is able to visit the United States for this occasion. She is also free to speak on the designated dates. | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | http://www.ecogreen.com.pk/ | ||||||
39 | 4/28/2015 16:48:51 | Le Saché | Fabrice | ECOSUR AFRIQUE | France | French | Male | 32 | FRENCH / ENGLISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | We need to urgently allocate funding for African climate change projects through the automatic purchase of carbon credits from the continent at a minimum guaranteed floor price. Same applies for LDCs and island vulnerable state. Carbon credits tool is one of the sole international tool directly targeting private sector in the climate change fight. | I founded and manage the leading climate finance group in Africa : > Largest portfolio of CDM projects under management (+40 projects in 17 countries). > Record number of African CDM projects registered under the UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism (24). > Largest volume of carbon credits traded (30 Mio tons for an e. market value 261 Mio EUR). > 4 Mio EUR invested in 5 green African start-ups. Website: www.ecosurafrique.com / Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin. I founded Up Afrique, a platform of 10 French young entrepreneurs committed to renew the French African relationships through the green economy: http://www.up-afrique.com I'm writer and coordinator of the initiative for a minimum guaranteed price for African carbon credits: http://mdp-afrique.com/index.html | Fabrice Le Saché. Chairman and CEO Fabrice founded ecosur afrique in 2009 and pioneered the UN Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) in several Sub-Saharan countries. Starting in Côte d’Ivoire, he developed the company with activities in 17 African countries and closed 261 Mio EUR of carbon credits transactions between African companies and international buyers (EDF, Shell, Cargill, Vitol, Bunge, Mercuria, Standard Bank, Swedish Fund). Since 2012, Fabrice led the group diversification : he established ecosur investment targeting clean energy start-ups in Africa and ecosur trading connecting African environmental commodities to European markets. Fabrice obtained a Master of Comparative Laws (LL.M.) from the University of San Diego School of Law (USA), a Master of International Public Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (France) and holds a degree in International Relations from IHEI Panthéon-Sorbonne (France). He is a French national, speaks French, English and Italian. | https://www.linkedin.com/profile/public-profile-settings?trk=prof-edit-edit-public_profile | www.ecosurafrique.com | ||||||
40 | 4/28/2015 20:28:50 | SOLLANO | FRANCIS | YOUTH FOR A LIVABLE CEBU | PHILIPPINES | FILIPINO | MALE | 28 | ENGLISH, FILIPINO, BISAYA, FUKIEN CHINESE | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As a youth leader, Francis Sollano would like to speak int he event to show to ministers and government leaders that the youth is capable of orchestrating multi-stakeholder programs that demonstrates the collective benefits of an engaged community on addressing climate change. It has always been an issue with decision makers on how private and public institutions can work together with their differing interests; however, there will always be middle grounds and it is crucial that mitigation and adaptation actions are understood by both parties. Francis would like to share his experience of battling with large companies and government units and successfully gluing them together in the efforts to revitalise communities and establish social enterprises. It is also important that meeting policies and measures is understood by the grassroots level, where tripple-bottomline strategies and actions are not concentrated only on policy makers. This great opportunity is very important for someone like Francis to establish in the event. | Francis Sollano is a visual artist known for his fashionable takes on upcycling garbage into wearable designs. With the complicating problems of today’s commercial waste contributing to global climate change in mind, he founded a social enterprise based on creatively manipulating waste materials, sourcing from commercial establishments, employing communities and working with government for implementation. Due to his work, he continues to inspire communities to adhere to solid waste management policies - a solution working as a system on its own. Aside from his work on trashion, he pioneered The Great Urban Challenge. TGUC is a multi-stakeholder approach to urban revitalisation, breathing in life to decaying spaces caused by unplanned urban development, partnering with government, private sector and youth groups. The initial stages of the program was extremely difficult, most especially when he had to discuss it to politicians which differing interests; disinterest of private institutions to work with the ‘inefficient’ government. The team persevered and worked on their limited resources. A significant event of the program was when they conducted a revitalisation at Pardo, Cebu City. Inviting 30 youth and government employees, at the event proper, more than 300 participants showed up - young and old, strangers and friends. It was overwhelming to learn the commitment of the community towards their district. Without any financial return for their day’s work, they volunteered, planting and building edible gardens and many more towards livable and healthy communities. | Francis Sollano is a trashion and installations artist known for his contemporary takes on upcycling garbage into wearable art and pioneered in Cebu on converting urban spaces to green healthy environments. A graduate from the University of the Philippines with Business Management major in Finance and Economics, as a self-made social entrepreneur, he incorporates his love for the natural environment in his delicate handmade creations under his own label FRANCISSOLLANO. He loves to design home accessories and installations that are made from commercial and residential waste. Sollano partners with commercial institutions driving programs that allow him to acquire the garbage materials and design pieces which are produced by financially-depressed communities. The social enterprise that he has founded continues to grow though it has very minimal capitalisation. His works have been featured not only on local publications in the Philippines but also in various magazines abroad such as Surface Asia Magazine, Eco Fashion Talk New York, Inhabitat US and Ilustrado Dubai. He has also presented his works in Manila, Tokyo, Bangkok, Singapore and London to promote sustainable and ethical fashion. As executive director of Youth for a Livable Cebu, he pioneered the multi-stakeholder program, The Great Urban Challenge, focusing on revitalising decaying urban spaces to healthy environments. His programs on climate change and urban sustainability has become a platform for other communities to conduct their own programs. In 2014, he was awarded by World Economic Forum (Davos, Switzerland) as a Global Shaper, a recognition to young individuals creating impacts within their communities and can be replicated in a global scale. He was recently awarded by the British Council as an ELEVATE Fellow for his works on urban spaces for reimagining the future of play and creativity. | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4JJLF3lUzT6SkJaR2djblZndzQ&authuser=0 | http://www.ylc.ph/ | ||||||
41 | 4/29/2015 0:02:04 | Arditi-Rocha | Yocamille | No Planeta B | Peru | US | Female | 43 | English, Spanish, Portuguese | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to speak as a Mother on behalf of all other mothers & our children because Climate Change is the biggest threat to their future. I believe using Schools & Universities around the world can be great catalyzers for change to create collective will among all parents, communities & governments around the world for their sake our their biggest stakeholder, their students, our children! | Yoca's journey began watching the world change around her. As a child growing up in the Caribbean, hurricanes were a normal part of life, but as an adult living in Florida, she witnessed the severity and close succession of names like Andrew, Katrina, Wilma, and Rita. With children of her own and the thought of them living in a future shaped by climate change made her want to take action immediately training with Ex-Vice-president Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader and founding No Planeta B (No Planet B) to assist organizations -specifically schools & universities- to reduce their carbon footprint. Years later she moved to Lima, Peru (the 3rd most-vulnerable nation to climate change) where the UNFCCC's Climate Change talks would happen in late 2014. In lieu of COP20, she challenged herself to engage & educate as many people as possible about climate change. She founded a climate education program called U CLIMATICA that gathered students from more than 30+ Peruvian universities for a two-day training on climate science, organizing strategies, and opportunities for action. U CLIMATICA’s reach and impact have only kept growing after the training with over 5,500+ followers on Social Media. Yoca is now working on next steps with an eye toward making student voices a force for transformational change at COP21 creating the Cut The RED Tape Project!, a global coalition of Schools & Universities committed to reducing emissions and adding their names to a joint declaration that will be presented during talks in Paris. | Yoca Arditi-Rocha is an international Sustainability Professional with over 15+years in experience. A Biologist with a degree on Corporate Sustainability from the Institute of Global Sustainability at the University of Vermont and currently pursuing her Master's degree at Harvard University in Sustainability & Environmental Management. She is an Al Gore trained Climate Change leader & presenter, an active member of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), a mentor at the Climate Reality Project Ledaership Corps program, and a USGBC certified LEED-Green Associate. She is the founder and executive director of No Planeta B, an organization that specializes in Climate Change education and assisting K-12 schools, Universities & Small/Medium organizations in reducing their environmental footprint in the Latin American region. As a motivational and inspiring speaker, she has presented and participated in many Conferences around the US and Latin America in promoting sustainability and bringing Climate Change awareness to different stakeholders groups in the private & public sector. She promotes several environmental educational campaigns like the Green Apple Day Of Service from USGBC, UCLIMATICA, and Cut the Red Tape! Project. She serves as the Sustainability advisor for Colegio Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Lima and other schools in the region. She speaks English, Spanish & Portuguese. | Youtube video - https://youtu.be/Q4f7j5T-cIk Yoca has presented & spoken in many expert panels, conferences & workshops. She is comfortable speaking in-front of crowds regardless of size. http://climaterealityproject.org/blog/after-many-nos-comes-yes | https://www.linkedin.com/in/yocamille | http://www.noplanetab.org/en/ | |||||
42 | 4/29/2015 1:57:16 | Abeyrathne | Anoka | Major Group of Children and Youth | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | Female | 24 | English, Hindi, Tamil, French | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I believe that I am able to voice the new, ambitious and universally binding agreement With my experience in climate action and concrete initiatives, through multi stakeholder approaches to address climate change, I am able to articulate and present my generations need for a universally binding climate deal this year with the sustainable development goals and post2015 development agenda reflecting our concerns and resolutions. | My action with my team has led to over 40000 Mangroves being replanted in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia, while over 5000 families have been benefitted from a cleaner healtheir environment, from eco-tourism, sustainable handicraft making leading to economic opportunities while providing rural women with better financial equality. Our work is also long term and sustainable as the communities are the stakeholders, thus ensuring long term incentive based Mangrove replantation and economic growth through eco-social entrepreneurship. | 24 year old Anoka Abeyrathne is an environmental conservationist, eco-social entrepreneur and sustainable policy advocate. She is the youngest female to be awarded the Commonwealth Youth Award for Excellence in Development and named on the 25 List of the Most Influential and Powerful Young Persons of the World 2012. As executive Director of Sustain Solutions, Abeyrathne’s efforts through Growin’ Money has lead to over 40,000 replanted Mangroves and a social enterprise/education programme helping over 5000 villagers in Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh and Cambodia. Abeyrathne is one of the first and youngest World Economic Forum Global Shapers in Sri Lanka and a Royal Commonwealth Society Associate Fellow . She is the youngest of the 18 Shapers of the United Nations World Economic Forum Sustainable Development Council working on mainstreaming sustainability with the Post 2015 Development Agenda. Abeyrathne has extensive knowledge on the HLPF due to being a sustainable development advocate and climate tracker. Anoka graduated with a LLB(Hons) from the University of London and is reading for her Masters in Developmental Economics through the University of Colombo. Abeyrathne is a public speaker and contributor on enterprise, education and business issues through platforms of the like of TEDx, Commonwealth Meetings, and World Economic Forum, therefore very comfortable with public speaking. | 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_WMRomSRU 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6LVV34S_uA 3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1rib64c2kQ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6vnsVREIJInM0dEWmV1OW0tcVE/view?usp=sharing | http://childrenyouth.org/ | |||||
43 | 4/29/2015 11:59:01 | Omollo | Harold | Succinct Holdings Limited | Kenya | Kenya | Female | 33 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | My concept is very new more so within the developing countries where farmers implement traditional farming methods which has lowered their productivity,demoralized them and made them to continue wallowing in vicious cycle of poverty.We have equipment that taps internet from the moon through satellite transponders which we are already paying for.The facility can provide platforms where knowledge can be shared in real time through pictorial presentation such as youtube.This will revolutionize our planet educate the entire world from a single source on how they can effectively mitigate climate change challenges,manage the existing scenarios and control the causes and effects and to prove the fact that the world is a global village.We shall also explain how we are able to engage the local/rural communities in providing feedback on the impact of climate change in real time to centralized systems for further analysis before further action is taken. | Im the founder of Digital Garden Initiative that provides Internet services to rural communities so that innovative agricultural extension services from developed countries can be delivered to farmers within rural communities in real time.They will then use the acquired skills in improving their environment.Inspirational agricultural talks,value addition initiatives and climate change campaigns can easily be shared by the rural communities.We have 2 way SMS support systems which allows farmers and the rural communities to ask questions from anywhere from their phone and get instant feedback through mobile telephony services (VOIP) in remote areas where there is inadequate mobile network. | As the founder of succinct Holdings Company (www.succinctkenya.com).He is in a position to give public speech and to further explain how and why he has managed to come up with different innovations fortifying the core business of Internet Service Provision.Within a span of 6 years,He has developed the following platforms for us;-Digital Village,Hot Spot Services in town,One way and 2 way SMS applications,Education Management Software,Timetable Management Software,Vehicle Tracking Services,Financial Management Software and point to point internet connectivity.He is able to get coordinates of any location and identify the signal strength that can support or not support internet services.Such analysis may also be instrumental to weather forecast and to the meteorological departments. His ideas can then be used to provide market and marketing information to any willing buyer or seller locally and internationally in real time due to market forces dynamics.As the National Programmes Coordinator and Lecturer at one of our public Universities,we is confident and public speaking. | I will provide this one latter though much of the work can be seen through www.succinctkenya.com | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5PlfiMblQwuN2dfb19aYkF2dU0/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
44 | 4/29/2015 14:56:33 | Valle Hernández | Olman | SINAPRED | Nicaragua | Nicaraguense | Hombre | 28 años | Español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Porque me siento comprometido con el mundo, no solo con mi país, si no con muchos de ellos, ya que el comportamiento del cambio climático nos afecta a todos y si el mundo se enferma, nosotros también lo estaremos, sin importar, color, sexo, raza o estatus económicos. Si mi pequeño pueblo pudo llegar a ser el mas limpio de todo Nicaragua, también otros podrán y seguirán nuestro ejemplo. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Because I feel committed to the world, not only for my country, if not many, since the behavior of climate change affects us all and if the world gets sick, we too will be what, no matter, color, sex , race or economic status. If my small town could become the cleanest around Nicaragua, and others also will follow our example. | Soy del Municipio de Nagarote, departamento de León, nuestro Municipio era uno de los que mas sucio se encontraba, a partir del año 2002, tras una fuerte campaña en mi pueblo para sensibilizar y hacer conciencia a los pobladores, de no tirar basura y limpiar nuestro Municipio, hoy somos un modelo a seguir para las demás ciudades de Nicaragua, Hoy Nagarote es considerado el Municipio Azul y el mas limpio de todo Nicaragua. Ademas de poseer un clima agradable y fresco gracias a la arbolización que cada año se realiza en el pueblo. GOOGLE TRANSLATE I am the Municipality of Nagarote, department of Leon, our town was one of the dirtiest was, from 2002, after a strong campaign in my village to raise awareness and consciousness of the people, not littering and cleaning our town, we are now a model for other cities in Nicaragua, Nagarote today is considered the Blue Municipality and the cleanest of all Nicaragua. Besides having a pleasant and fresh climate thanks to the gardening it is done each year in the village. | Soy Licenciado en Comunicación Social, y tengo la experiencia y la facilidad de hablar en publico ante cualquier panel, sin importar si son presidentes, gobernadores o familias humildes. GOOGLE TRANSLATE I have a degree in Social Communication, and have the experience and ease of speaking in public before any panel, whether they are presidents, governors or poor families. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-I00_wVfQo | http://www.sinapred.gob.ni/ | ||||||
45 | 4/29/2015 15:03:07 | Akomolafe | Bayo | International Alliance for Localization | India | Nigerian | Male | 31 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | In my adventures as a voice for a more beautiful world - for an ecologically sensitive, socially just, economically egalitarian, and politically intimate world - I am encountering exciting, local initiatives at the edges of climate change discourse. These creative initiatives, practices, movements and small collectives are challenging major assumptions about how we can co-create a more sustainable world. These groups recognize that climate change is a symptom of a deeper shift that needs to happen; they recognize that at the root of today's multidimensional crises is a techno-economic system that treats the earth as fodder for the imperatives of perpetual growth - and that until the story of growth changes, we will continue to subconsciously sabotage our own efforts for a radical shift to a more beautiful planet. They realize how the trending issue of sustainability has, quite ironically, led to the evolution of 'cap and trade', the emergence and reinforcement of a single metric system (and the banishment of diverse ways of knowing the world) by which corporations conveniently quantify the damage wrought on ecosystems, and greater disenchantment as activists and concerned citizens of the planet. In short, our greatest crisis today is not so much climate change, as it is the economic paradigm that perpetuates it. I want to tell this story. It would be a sacred honour to bring global attention to these deeper issues, to share what people are doing locally, and how nation-states around the world can come into the service of this 'blessed unrest'. | As a young graduate assistant working on a doctorate program in Covenant University (Nigeria) five years ago, I didn’t think climate change was trivial – or something only ‘white people’ worried about. So, I designed a program called the 'Hands in Green Project' for faculty members and students in the university. It was a modest attempt to deepen ecological awareness about the impact of apparently mundane tasks (like driving a car) on the environment. My quests for an environmentally conscious world then led me into the localization movement, where I started to see connections between market-led economics, the paradigm of progress, and ecological health. Today, I am learning that our efforts for ecological justice must address the structural injustice of neoliberal capitalism, and the monoculture of mind that is silencing indigenous cultures and replacing diversity with a single story about what it means to be in the world. As Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Local Futures (a position I took last year), I now travel around the world, bringing attention to slow, small-scale, local projects (like seed-sharing networks, regenerative farming, and business cooperatives) and initiatives that are addressing the crises of our time without big budgets or media focus. Our hope is to amplify their work, connect them trans-locally, and help bring deepen the conversation about the need for localization today. That is the more beautiful world I hope to see. | Adebayo Akomolafe (PhD) is a young clinical psychologist, lecturer and author from Covenant University in Nigeria. Last year, Adebayo was invited to be the Coordinator of the International Alliance for Localization, a project of Local Futures. Bayo is globally recognized for his poetic, unconventional, counterintuitive, and indigenous take on global crisis, civic action and social change, and was recently enlisted as the recipient of the Global Excellence Award (Civil Society) 2014 by FutureShapers (California). Though young, he is a frequent keynote speaker and has been invited three consecutive times to be the only keynote speaker at the European Union-sponsored DEEEP/CIVICUS Summit on Building a World Citizens' Movement. His profound contributions to the discourse on sustainability, the role of activism, climate change, poverty eradication and decolonization, led to the adoption of the Johannesburg Compass - in place of a Declaration, which had been earlier intended. As Coordinator, Bayo hopes to help co-create a trans-local 'mycelial' sharing of wisdoms, evoke a 'politics of surprise', and nurture a counterintuitive movement for a more beautiful world. He is a young man with a growing, poetic and potent voice that has captivated audiences around the world. Having co-founded a network called Koru with his life-partner, Ej, Bayo is writing his second book, ‘And We Shall Dance with the Mountains’ and a novel, ‘The Boy Who Stayed Outside’. Ej and Bayo are ecstatic parents of a girl, Alethea. His readings of 'knowledge', 'development', 'progress' and 'truth' as Eurocentric metanarratives led him to develop the first International Workshop on Alternative Research Paradigms and Indigenous Knowledge Promotion (WARP, 2011). He initiated a book project called 'We will tell our stories: Reimagining the Social Sciences in Africa' in 2011, and is currently publishing the book with Professors Molefi Asante (USA), Augustine Nwoye (South Africa) and Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe), among other African intellectuals. He was appointed Visiting Scientist to Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (UK) in February 2012, and is also a member of the Global Cooperative Forum in Switzerland. His most abiding interests are the idea of civilizational transitions, localization, the multidimensionality and paradox of 'reality' and consciousness, and a radical planetary future. Adebayo possesses a valid visa and is able to visit the United States for this occasion. | Bayo is a potent and captivating speaker, whose talks have been called 'dense, poetic and challenging' (http://deeep.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/GlobalConference_LongReport.pdf). He earned the moniker (one which he gently resists) of 'the new Mandela' in New York, where he gave his speech on cultural diversity and localization. 1) Special Interview at the Second Global Summit (DEEEP/CONCORD/CIVICUS/GCAP) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eok0YVYsHHM 2) ‘An Oriki for our Times: Reflections on Activism, Change and Wonder’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9hvW9cYQKM 3) 'They sang with a thousand tongues: The poetry of diversity' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBhvnq5oV0E 4) ‘The World Alethea Dreamed of: The Deep Shift We Need for a New Planetary Future’ - Keynote Address https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUGJQNRYE-Y 5) ‘We Will Tell Our Stories: The Power of Disenchantment and Alternative Futures for Africa' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NacLZo9ZEds | Dr. Bayo Akomolafe's Resume https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B62wPoGlhvquRGt4ZEN0UXlGM2M/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
46 | 4/29/2015 18:13:57 | Bangura | Philip Salis | Africa Youth for Peace and Development | Sierra Leone | Sierra Leone | Male | 30 | English, Spanish | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | If i am given the opportunity to be part of this wonderful event i will be very please because i will be able to showcase our organization activities on climate change our new project tittled AYPAD Bio energy project which is geared towards solving energy problems in Sierra Leone using sugar cane to produce ethanol. i have also been 2 times Energy Globe Award Winner for Sierra Leone and Received an Award at the European Parliament in Brussels meet with Mikhail Gorbachev, Mr Koffi Annan and former president of the European Parliament Hans Gert Pottering. meeting these influential people really got me motivated to work more environmental project because i knew exactly the importance of climate change and how we can take actions to mitigate the current problem Our organization works on a wide range of projects that are environmentally friendly and urge government through advocacy to take actions on Climate Change. if given this noble opportunity i will be able to present actions of young people taking actions to combat climate change Philip is winner for Sierra Leone Energy Globe awards In many rural communities in Sierra Leone, there is limited access to communication neither as well as energy. The Energy Globe Award enabled our organization to help eradicate the problem of inadequate access to ICT and Energy in Rural Communities in Sierra Leone while providing employment for under employed youths http://www.energyglobe.info/awards/details/awdid/8765/ http://www.energyglobe.com/en/energy-globe-award/winners-2007/national-awards-prague-09/ | I am the present international Executive Director for Africa Youth for Peace and Development. our organization is working in 30 countries around Africa where i work on a daily basis with all 30 country coordinators to implement programs and activities of our organization. we work on a multifaced development program and to name a few on our climate Change and environmental activities is AYPAD Environmental Project AYPAD’ Environmental Project mission is to build global community through local environmental service. AYPAD restores parks and open spaces while providing leadership and community service experiences for young people in Sierra Leone and beyond.Environmental service is a uniquely effective way to build community. When people put their hands into the dirt together and see their efforts transform a threatened area into a more vibrant landscape, . Each year, AYPAD bring 1,000 community volunteers and hundreds of school-age children into direct contact with their environment and each other. The second project that we workon climate change issues is AYPAD Tree Planting Program Objective: To build local knowledge about the environment, to provide leadership and community service experiences to young people in the environmental sector, and to combat soil erosion and ecological degradation. AYPAD engages with the community as a whole through sensitization meetings with local youths. | Philip Salis Bangura Current international Executive director of Africa Youth for Peace and Development organization, operating in 30 countries around Africa. 2 times Energy lobe Award winner for Sierra Leone. He has implemented more than 5 climate change project with current project AYPAD Bio Energy project using Sugar cane to produce Ethanol. Philip is Bangura is recognized as a leader in poverty reduction and environmental sustainability in Sierra Leone. His organization AYPAD has proven success in these areas. Achievements to date include: 200 youth involved in restoring parks and open spaces, gaining an enhanced appreciation of their local environment. • 120community leaders involved in a tree planting program to provide internally displaced people with food while also protecting the natural environment from erosion. | Shelter for Africa House- National Stadium Freetown Sierra Leone | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zQ4Q1pNqfZ585HJUElZN4n3NqcMKCuEK6ewJ6OqMmD8/edit | http://www.aypad.org/ | |||||
47 | 4/29/2015 23:05:58 | Garavito Sanjur | Ana del Carmen Garavito Sanjur | calentamiento global,una realidad | Panama | Panameña | femenino | 24 | english,spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Quiero hablar por diferentes razones una de ellas es por mi preocupación desde hace mucho tiempo por el cambio climático porque se que ha sido provocado por acciones antropogenicos y los únicos que tenemos la solución somos nosotros pienso que cada uno debe accionar empezando por pequeñas acciones que hacen la diferencia y mitigan los efectos del cambio climático por esas razones cree esta iniciativa para educar a las personas porque se empieza educando e informando a la vez concientizando y accionando todo va en conjunto, | Desde hace un año hice una pagina en facebook para concientizar, educar, divulgar informacion referente como contarrestarlo y a la vez como adaptarse al cambio climatico, imparto voluntariamente charlas, talleres como opciones sustentables para mitigar el cambio climatico y reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en temas como huertos caseros a familias en organizaciones religiosas, organize una marcha contra el cambio climático como parte de las acciones de la plataforma avaaz como actividad marco de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el cambio climático realizada en Nueva york en diferentes partes del mundo. Aparte de educar, trabajo en la siembra de arboles como iniciativa voluntaria de reforestacion en escuelas secundarias para educar y a la vez proteger los bosques que son los principales sumideros de dioxido de carbono los cuales captan el dióxido de carbono. | Soy la creadora de la Organización soy una joven profesional de Medio Ambiente específicamente de Ingeniera en Manejo de Cuenca y Ambiente cuento con experiencia en el tema ambiental al trabajar con el Instituto Smithsonian de investigaciones tropicales en el carbon project woody debris en la isla Barro Colorado centro de investigacion de dicho instituto desde alli inicio mi estudio de cambio climático incluyendo mi proyecto de investigación, enfocado en el dióxido de carbono del suelo y la protección de los bosques a la vez fue becada por el gobierno brasileño y panameño como participante del curso internacional para el proyecto de carbono en América Latina realizado en el estado de Amazonas; participe en el IV foro de Jóvenes de las Américas realizado dentro de la Cumbre de las Américas en Panamá como delegada juvenil representando a las juventudes; a la vez estuve en el dialogo Nacional de la Juventud realizado en mi Pais de origen; estas han sido experiencias que he tenido en publico donde mi participación ha sido diversa en una de ellas fui oradora del informe final de la juventud. | http://cambioclimaticotierra.com/ | |||||||
48 | 4/30/2015 0:38:45 | TORRES HERRERA | HENRY | UAP ALAS PERUVIAN UNIVERSITY PISCO HEADQUARTERS | PERU | PERUVIAN | MALE | 29 | SPANISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Because for me it is an issue of great importance is for the good of all to be on climate change which, when a problem is in our hands to solve ara that unify us towards a path of conscience and peace to take us Asia respect for our natural environment for all living beings who performs a function taking only what we need is how I see why it would be special rapporteur to me that I am a student of Ing. environmental | environmental education lectures in different university faculties wings Peruvian pisco based on goods and services provided by the Paracas Reserve through grassland ecosystem Kelp THROUGH carbon sequestration; which will reveal that this can be an effective mechanism to mitigate the increase in atmospheric CO2 produced mostly by anthropogenic pollution; This study describes the added value of making a profit untouched ecosystem which is considered sustainable management; applicable in all protected areas of Peru because all ecosystems may offer this service as protecting the ecosystem. | 1. Assistant Academic Coordinator of School ing. Based pisco Peruvian University Environmental wings 2. I am a representative of the civil society I am a student speaker of environmental issues and can deal with topics of discussion on this offer solutions to problems trying to be a balance in a debate have availability to travel can get the visa in my country 3. I have experience with public speaking cent me comfortable dealing with people who teach me something that makes me grow in my career and as a person | http://www.uap.edu.pe/ing/ | |||||||
49 | 4/30/2015 1:59:36 | Bocanegra Chung | Ivonne Pamela | Asociación Grupo Ambiental Tierra Amazónica-GATIA | Perú | Peruana | Femenino | 25 | Español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Sería una gran oportunidad el ser capaz de dar a conocer el trabajo de hormiga que venimos realizando con mis compañeras, una oportunidad de demostrar que cuando una persona se traza una meta, no existen límites y que el único límite que pueda existir es el que uno lo pone en la mente obstaculizando el seguir adelante y luchar por sus sueños. Quiero ser capaz de transmitir que el ser un emprendedor social y el querer luchar por ver a su tierra que le vio nacer un mejor lugar más sano y amigable con el ambiente, no es fácil, existen muchas caídas y personas negativas que hacen ver que el trabajo que realizas no tiene sentido y menos si lo haces sin ninguna remuneración económica. Quiero demostrar que existen personas que sin esperar nada a cambio, luchan cada día por generar cambios de actitud, que luchan por ver a su país un mejor lugar, quiero ser capaz de hablar por todos aquellos compañeros que creen en sus sueños y la luchan por hacerlos realidad. GOOGLE TRANSLATE It would be a great opportunity to be able to give out the painstaking task that we have been doing with my companions, an opportunity to show that when a person a goal trace, there are no limits and the only limit that may exist is the oneHe puts in the minds hampering go ahead and pursue their dreams. I want to be able to convey that being a social entrepreneur and being willing to see their land of his birth a better healthier and friendly place with environment is not easy, there are many falls and negative people who see that the work you do makes no sense and less if you do it without any financial remuneration. I want to show that there are people without expecting anything in return, struggle every day to bring about changes in attitude, struggling to see their country a better place, I want to be able to speak for all those comrades who believe in their dreams and fight for realize them. | La basura se ha convertido en uno de los grandes problemas de la sociedad, la ciudad de Iquitos (Perú)actualmente genera un aproximado de 500 toneladas al día de residuos sólidos de los que un aproximado de 300 ingresan al botadero y el resto se quedan regadas en las esquinas de las calles ríos y bosques sumándose a ello la escaza cultura ambiental en las personas, esto se ha convertido en un problema que cada día se acumula más, es por ello que ante grandes problemas debemos generar grandes soluciones y se debe empezar con la educación, enseñando con el ejemplo, de manera divertida y demostrando que la basura no es basura si la sabemos reciclar con el objetivo de lograr generar cambios de actitud es que se forma la Asociación Grupo Ambiental Tierra Amazónica que desde el 2011 viene realizando actividades que despierte la mente de las personas y empiecen a ver a la basura como generadoras de oportunidades: de negocio, moda, arte y educación. Somos pioneros en hacer ver a la basura como generadoras de oportunidades a nivel local,cada vez innovando y enfocando nuestro trabajo hacia las poblaciones directamente afectadas por los problemas ambientales que acarrea el mal manejo de los residuos sólidos dando soluciones en la que ellas mismas puedan participar de forma activa y lograr un cambio en su estilo de vida, favoreciendo así a su comunidad y el medio que los rodea. Gracias al arduo trabajo hemos sido reconocidos a nivel nacional con el Premio Protagonista del Cambio 2014 y el Premio Nacional Ambiental otorgado por el Ministerio del Ambiente Perú. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Garbage has become one of the great problems of society, the city of Iquitos (Peru) currently generates approximately 500 tons per day of solid waste than about 300 entering the landfill and the rest are watered in the corners of the streets, rivers and forests escaza thereby adding to environmental culture in people, this has become a problem that accumulates every day, which is why we must generate to big problems and big solutions must begin with education, teaching by example, in a funny way and demonstrating that waste is not waste if we recycle with the goal of generating changes in attitude is that the Earth environmental group Amazon Association is formed which since 2011 has been carrying out activities awaken the minds of people and begin to see the garbage as generating opportunities: business, fashion, art and education. We are pioneers in to see the garbage as generating opportunities locally, increasingly innovating and focusing our work to the people directly affected by environmental problems caused by the mishandling of solid waste providing solutions in which they themselves can participate actively and bring about a change in your lifestyle, thus favoring their community and the environment around them. Thanks to hard work have been recognized nationally with the Protagonist Change Award 2014 and the National Environmental Prize awarded by the Ministry of Environment Peru. | Soy fundadora y presidente de la asociación GATIA, responsable de todos los proyectos que se realizan, de idear nuevas metodologías de trabajo y encargada de buscar contactos de apoyo y de generar alianzas estratégicas. Actualmente manejo un programa televisivo local en cuyo objetivo es llegar a más personas con temas ambientales. Cuento con visa y la completa disponibilidad de estar presente durante los días indicados. Cuento con experiencia en hablar ante gran cantidad de personas, puesto que participo activamente en diversas conferencias y talleres relacionados al trabajo de GATIA y fui docente académico por 2 años en la Universidad Científica del Perú (Iquitos). GOOGLE TRANSLATE I am the founder and president of the association GATIA responsible for all projects carried out, to devise new methods of work and responsible for finding contact support and strategic alliances. Currently I manage a local television program whose aim is to reach more people with environmental issues. I count on visa and full availability to be present during the days. I have experience in talking to many people, since actively participated in various conferences and workshops related to the work of GATIA and was academic teacher for two years at the Scientific University of Peru (Iquitos). | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO8VyQ9at2I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pey3IkmOP5M | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2oS7QvHlsIybnd1cnBqT3Fpemc/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2oS7QvHlsIyN2w0UllwZ2tvcXM/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
50 | 4/30/2015 4:01:43 | Yagnik | Kamlesh | Surat Climate Change Trust | India | Indian | Male | 53 | English, Hindi | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | I wish to share my experience of working on river flood management along with project of Early warning System for citizens. Have had many interactions with many city representatives from different states and countries. I intend to share transformation which this city underwent frCity's mechanism to cope-up with calamity is also to be shared. | Surat City in west coast of India is a city facing constant river flood threats, around 100 such threats faced in last 100 years.With the certainty of Climate Change this frequency is likely to go up. City had to devise its own plan to adapt itself to live during such calamity. Last 8 years I have been working in the area of Climate Change and Adaptation at Surat City. Asian Cities Climate Change Resilience Network (ACCCRN) is a project pioneered by Rockefeller Foundation in which Surat was included as one of the first 10 cities in 2008. Since then have worked on preparing Resilience Strategy for the Surat with multi faceted staheholders. | Working in the area of climate change by defining city wide resilience strategy for Surat City in India. Also working on various intervention projects.Currently I am being nominated as Chief Resilience Officer of the City by local government under Rockefellar Foundation initiative of 100RC project. Joining the course will enable me to look at what all i am doing for the city differently. Born in 1961 have worked in different capacities in organisations like 1. The Southern Gujarat Chamber of Commerce & Industry, Surat Citizens Council Trust, Institute of Engineers, Centre of Social Studies and College of Engineering & Technology. | www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Um0CakbJbE | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_eD8STfV_LmbU9IZGhPNm5nN3c/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
51 | 4/30/2015 10:38:01 | Sabadini | Gabriela | Chile Green Building Council - Moller & Perez Cotapos Construction Company | Chile | Chilean | Female | 34 | Spanish and English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Because I want the world to know how Chile, as a developing country, is struggling with climate change. I feel that I have a strong voice and the technical knowledge necessary in order to make conscience of what is happening in my country. | I've been working in sustainability for about 5 years, always related in construction, one of the most pollutant activities in a city, and I think than in the many projects that I have advised, I've though many professionals about how we have to act in order to make this process more environment-friendly. If only one person of the project team gets consciense about it, I'm satisfied. Last year I applied to The Climate Reality project and got trained by Al Gore last november and I believe now I have all the necessary tools to promote and create conscience about climate change. Since then I'm now a columinst at an online journal, with very successful columns about the reality of climate change specially in my country. | Gabriela has been working in sustainability since 2010, starting as an intern in sustainable social housing. Currently is now an active sustainability professional working as an independent consultant, in a construction company and as a technical advisor at Chile Green Building Council. As a pro bono columist, Gabriela is now on the way of her third monthly column regarding climate change and specially how it affects her home country, Chile. With studies of architecture, now she's studying industrial engeneering, in order to bring sustainability to a bigger scale. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_-Gr_tLfa4yM19nYlg5d20ycUE/view?usp=sharing | http://www.chilegbc.cl/ | ||||||
52 | 4/30/2015 10:39:18 | Roman | Nereida | Peaceful | United States | usa | Female | 41 | English and SPanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to create awareness in communities, and prevention. My organization helps communities become aware of what could happen if we are not prepare and resolve conflicts. | I am an operational leader to prepare the community for extreme local climate action. I am part of the Peace and Conflict Resolution. org to help prevent extreme weather in Orlando and Miami, Florida. Florida is the most vulnerable U.S. state to sea-level rise, with seas projected to rise along the state’s coast by as much as 2 feet probably by 2022 which can potentially destroy infrastructure, homes, and communities. | I am an advocate and spoke person for abused and neglected children and for individuals with disability. My experiences are a combination of leadership, communication, education, mediation and facilitation. Currently, Certified in the State of Texas as a Mediator/Arbitrator/Facilitator and Certified as a Family Mediation Consultant for the State of Florida. In addition, I am attending Nova Southeastern University, pursuing a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis & Resolution. In the past, I have worked as an Autism Consultant for Parents assisting Autism Spectrum Disorder students in classroom activities, in diverse areas. Shortly, a second book will be published related to psychopathy. Work experiences include Director of Sales and Marketing, Management of Personnel, Customer Service, Sales, Advisor, Counselor, Human Resources Manager, Property Accounting Manager, Teacher, Autism Consultant and Writer. Additional skills include planning, coordinating, and implementing classroom structures to influence and enhance student’s learning and retention; while encouraging self-directed individual development. Furthermore, creator of a published book dedicated to Austin/Asperger students. In addition, weather and climate action spokes person in relation to climate conflicts. The blog has watchers from US, Europe, Asia, Africa, Thailand, Central and South America. | 9284 Randal Park Blvd 19124 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx5xNC8XF7HsSDlKd2pTaEpOelU/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
53 | 4/30/2015 16:15:30 | Sekhani | Shreyans | Watt Guru | India | Indian | Male | 25 | English, Hindi | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I think it will be a great opportunity for me to present my venture in front of eminent personalities and this will also help me in networking. The exposure will be of immense help. | WATT GURU. COM An Engagement Platform on Energizing a Behavioural Response to Save Energy The increasing demand for power has led to considerable fossil fuel burning thus not only depleting the fossil fuel reserves, but also greatly and adversely impacting the environment. India is one of the biggest consumers of energy where 24% of energy is imported and 75 million homes in India are without electricity. Research suggests that efficient use of energy and its conservation assumes even greater importance in view of the fact that one unit of energy saved at the consumption level reduces the need for fresh capacity creation by 2.5 times to 3 times. Further, such saving through efficient use of energy can be achieved at less than one-fifth the cost of fresh capacity creation. Energy efficiency would, therefore, significantly supplement our efforts to meet power requirement, apart from reducing fossil fuel consumption. Thus, energy management has shifted parameters from the 'can do' alternative to the 'must do'. Therefore, in order to make the Indian consumer aware of the great benefits of energy saving (both in the context of monetary and lifestyle changes) an e-portal dedicated to propagating the virtues and benefits of energy conservation has been created by us. | SUMMARY Co Founder at Watt Guru. Energy Services, Strategy and Communications Executive at Enfragy Solutions India Private Limited. Masters of Science from University of Glasgow in Applied Carbon Management. Bachelors in Business Administration from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Active member of Child Right and You (CRY). EXPERIENCE Watt Guru (www.wattguru.com) Watt Guru is a social enterprise, which aims to energize and sensitize a behavioral response to save energy. Co-Founder and Supercharged Supervisor (January 2014-Present) Watt Guru consists of two parts, one is the portal which has the stories, games, comics on energy efficiency and the energy calculator, the other is the on the ground movement, where the aim is to take Watt Guru to 12 major cities in India in the next 24 months . Watt Guru has been appointed by the state of Nagaland as its Energy Awareness Movement Partner. Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC), a RP- Sanjiv Goenka Group Company has become our knowledge partners and Bengal Chamber of Commerce is our movement partner. EDUCATION School of Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Glasgow (Dumfries Campus) Master of Science in Applied Carbon Management (2011-2012) Completed the degree in November 2012. Selected Post Graduate Representative for the Student Association of Dumfries Campus and Student Ambassador of University of Glasgow (Dumfries Campus). Twice awarded scholarship for excellence by the Crichton Foundation. Relevant coursework – Climate, Carbon and Change Sustainable Buildings Theory and Principles of Sustainability Carbon Auditing and Management Environmental Ethics and Behavioral Change Tourism Sustainability and Climate Change | http://www.wattguru.com/ | |||||||
54 | 4/30/2015 17:27:05 | Mwanake | Hope | Trace Kenya | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | 28 | English, Swahili and my native Language | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like to share my lesson learnt with the various Member States, Government Ministers, high-level participants, and other representatives who will attend, that being a leader of a small community based organization with a big vision fuels my desire to tackle environmental issues such as climate change and emerging natural resources problems in my own small way so as to succeed in attaining environmental integrity for my community. I would also love to appreciate that community based organizations especially those that are entirely youth led and for the youths actually play a huge role when it comes to sustainable development, and therefore urge them to support young people in their various countries with innovations that offer opportunities from the existing challenges by creating a strong support system and a platform for interactions with the various relevant stakeholders. Also say thank you to all the young people out there together with their various organizations for striving to make a difference by creating solutions to tackle climate change. | There is high demand for housing in Kenya (with an estimated 300,000 units deficit annually according to Price Waterhouse Coopers 2011) and this has attracted a lot of investments especially to our County Nakuru which is the fastest growing town in East Africa (UNHABITAT 2011). Environmental authorities are now restricting the quarrying of clay and sand which is used to manufacture building products like roofing tiles due to adverse environmental degradation. Roofing tiles have become expensive and their susceptibility to mould attack is pushing away clients to other options. As a result, players in the industry are importing tiles to meet market demands. UNEP approximates 3,000 tonnes of plastic and glass waste being generated daily in Kenya with less than 5% getting recycled. Landfills are full posing health problems and plastic and glass waste contribute majorly to this due to their abundance and non biodegradable nature. We at Trace Kenya propose to make long lasting and affordable Eco tiles from the readily available and abundant glass and plastic waste. Our tiles are based on proven technology. The tile prototype was developed at Kenya Industrial Research Development Institute and patented by Kenya Industrial Property Institute. ECO TILE will help meet market demands (Real estate growth of 25% in 2013 - Africa Business magazine 2014), impact positively to the environment and create 20 jobs directly in the manufacturing process and over 100 jobs indirectly in the collection process. | Hope Mwanake is a hardworking, diligent and ambitious woman with over four years of experience in environmental management and sustainable development. She is a trained environmental scientist with a passion for addressing emerging environmental problems at the community level. Hope is a Co Founder and Project Leader for environment conservation at Trace Kenya Group which is a community based organization that works with young people in addressing environmental problems in Nakuru County including offering garbage collection services in Gilgil town (www.tracekenyagroup.org ). During her part time she lectures at Egerton University where she teaches and imparts knowledge on various environmental courses to young people and has no problem when it comes to public speaking. She is a trained environmental impact assessment and audit expert, the youth representative in the Gilgil/Naivasha District Environment Board, Chairperson of the Gilgil Climate Action Network and a member of the Eastern Africa Water Association. Hope holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Science from UNESCO-IHE Netherlands, and an Honors Degree in Bachelor of Applied Aquatic Science from Egerton University. She is proficient in Geographical Information Systems and environmental modeling methods. She has also been trained in project management by the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS, New York and during her free time she is a volunteer peer educator on issues related to HIV/AIDS to youths in her community. Her biggest desire is to be an African pioneer who has great ideas to change the world. Being an Environmental Scientist by profession, it is her desire to come up with ideas that creates social or environmental impact, those that lead to a cleaner, safer and friendlier world. Through her day to day activities she endeavors to be a changemaker with a fresh perspective and eagerness to contribute to a better world and it is because of this that she was selected as Mandela Washington fellow 2014, an African pioneer change maker by Cheetah Fund 2014, a Global Social Impact House Fellow 2014 and a Queens Leader Recommended Runners Up 2015. | www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOp7fK0OsOc | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-EUqNcNpB6QQVN2UDBia0pjbUE/view?usp=sharing | http://www.tracekenya.org/ | |||||
55 | 4/30/2015 19:42:51 | Pouvalu | Siu | University of the South Pacific | Fiji | Tongan | Female | 29 | English, Tongan | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to share with world leaders that make decisions on policies our experiences with climate change the stories of the communities from 15 Pacific island countries that we work with at the Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development.These communities of different island structure are at the forefront of climate change and experience the impacts of king tides, coastal flooding and erosion, water shortage and epidemics. At the Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development, I have developed a Community disaster risk mapping tool-kit that QuantumGIS (QGIS) to assist our communities during the period of our project (EUGCCA and USAID/C-CAP) and when our projects end. The purpose of this mapping tool-kit is to enable communities that experience the impacts of climate change e.g. king tides, coastal flooding, water shortage or epidemics is to better understand their risks and vulnerabilities. The tool-kit empowers local communities to be able to collect data from their communities, develop a database that is kept within the community to assist them in seeking further/other external assistance from local governments or other organizations to sustain their projects etc. Since Ministers, business leaders and representatives from civil society organizations will be present, it is important that they hear stories from communities that experience waves crashing into our homes and digging out our plantations so that they take that into consideration when making decisions. | The Pacific Island countries that participate in our projects (EUGCCA and USAID/ C-CAP) were selected based on their vulnerability to; food security, water security, health issues, flooding, coastal flooding and erosion. In almost each country we have community coordinators that assist in liaising with the communities and this is essential for funding. Where our two projects will soon come to an end, I have developed a Community Disaster Risk Mapping tool-kit for our participating communities and it will be made available for the public. This tool-kit aims train communities to be able to collect data of their environment, identify risks and areas at risks and highlight issues in a map for example a disease incidence map relative to an area affected by flooding. Most often, communities and small organizations do not have access to the expensive GIS software and data to assist them in their collective climate actions. This tool-kit uses open source software namely; QuantumGIS (QGIS), Apache Open Office and georeferenced Google Earth images. It provides an opportunity for capacity building at the community level and a platform for data sharing to help communities build resilience against the impacts of climate change! | Ms. Siu Pouvalu is a Junior Research Fellow specializing in Geographic Information Systems at the Pacific Centre for Environment & Sustainable Development (PaCE-SD). She previously worked for the Tonga Ministry of Education and Training teaching Geography at the secondary level. She holds a Postgraduate diploma in Environmental Studies and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from the University of the South Pacific (USP). She has previously developed a Community Mapping tool-kit to assist local communities in building resilience and adapting to climate change. Her current research focuses on Participatory GIS (PGIS) and providing solutions to help Pacific communities adapt to the impacts of climate change. She is also a member of the Econesian Society which is a non profit organization made up of young Pacific Islanders with a mission to protect their environment and traditional knowledge. She represented the Econesian Society at the One Young World Summit at Johannesburg addressing the issues of climate change and what her region is experiencing. She is also an active volunteer for the WOWS Kids Fiji foundation - supporting kids with cancer. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3XkDsH6Zs5mclN6R0FUYS1jOTA/view?usp=sharing | https://www.usp.ac.fj/ | ||||||
56 | 4/30/2015 22:25:05 | Atma | Hamdi | Tunisian Liberal youth | Tunisia | Tunisian | Male | 23 | English French Arabic | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Actually climate change has a deep impact on the Mena region including Tunisia and this topic is totally ignored by policymakers in my country,we believe that the role of youth is to raise more awareness and participate effectively in promoting environmental work,I know many people suffering from pollution and inhuman condition of living and the national policy of my country is receiving any kind of industrial investment without caring of its bad impact on the humans or the environment and I think it's our duty to say "It's time to stop" and to say also that human being is the most valuable capital in the world. | 'The most valuable of all capital is that invested in human beings'Alfred Marshall As a result of human activities,Global temperature is increasing and that the main cause is the accumulation of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,Industrial sector plays an important role in the Tunisian economy but It has a negative impact on the environment and human being ,In fact rising temperatures associated with climate change are expected to decrease the land areas suitable for agriculture in Tunisia, shorten the length of growing seasons and reduce crop yields,As a result we started a national campaign to make a pressure on the factory's owners to devote an amount of their financial gains to fight pollution ,establish green spaces and to re_start the implementation of projects to reduce gas emissions as the Clean Development Mechanism program (CDM),we faced a lot of problems and our demands were refused by the business owners but after difficult negotiation many of them accepted to establish a small budget to tackle climate change issues and we participated in establishing the first green space in a textile factory. It is, of course, not a situation that can be changed quickly, but I think it’s time for young Tunisians to contribute to the social change by raising awareness and promoting environmental work,many people get inspired and they are trying to change the situation where they work and I think that we should continue our campaign to make the government hears our voices and to start thinking seriously about the danger of climate change. | He got his license degree in American and British culture and He is studying now international relations and diplomacy. He is the co_founder of the Tunisian liberal youth which is an organisation engaged in promoting democratic values and citizenship in the Arab world. He participated in the Tunisian youth parliament He is a member in the general council of the Tunisian liberal party. He is one of the organizers of the general assembly of the international movement #Action2015 in Tunis this year (international movement against poverty ,inequality and accountability). He is a member in the Climate Summit Coordination action/team. He is one of the organizers of the national campaign called"show me the money"to make a pressure on the policymakers to provide the money that they promised to devote for the climate change issues. He is responsible of many projects as the national campaign to aware Tunisians of the danger of the textile industry on the environment and their lives and to cut an amount of money from their huge financial gains to devote it for establishing green spaces and to limit its dangerous impact. He is an English Instructor (Volunteer) for Orphans. Hamdi is is a representative of the Tunisian liberal youth, and He is officially authorized by our organization to speak on the organization behalf and He is is available to be in New York on 28-29 June 2015. He is a a compelling public speaker as He was a trainer of many seminars within our organisation and He used to work with public as a Workshop to simplify the employment law to women working in the private sector which is provided by a video. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3br9ey3kdHIUkNXQ2hibTF0YmM/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3br9ey3kdHIUE5OV3RBSVJ2M2M/view?usp=sharing | http://www.liberalyouth.org/ | |||||
57 | 5/1/2015 6:13:04 | Djohy | Mahugnon Serge | IDEAS For Us | Cape Verde | Benin | Male | 26 | French; English; Portuguese | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As African Representative in World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW), we recently I participated in the drafting and presentation of a formal statement, in which we invite young people to take advantage of their responsibility and to play in addressing the water issues in the post-2015 world; in the World Water Forum, Daegu, 12-17 April, 2015. Of the same dynamic, I have a great motivation to talk to policy makersinviting them to support us in our work and in our strategies against climate change. Having lived 26 years in Developing Countries, marked by long drought and heavy flooding and suffering the adverse effects of climate change (Benin); having lived for 2 years in a Small Insular Developing State SIDS (Cape Verde); for work for 5 years with local communities to strengthen adaptation and resilience building; for hiring hundreds of young people in the creation of green jobs; and finally to have taken about thirty regional and international conference during which the nominee has had the chance to learn and share their practical expériences in climate change adaptation Policy in western Africa; it would be a very good representative of the Civil Society. | I'm Cape Verde Country Director for IDEAS For Us, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization, accredited by the United Nations, advancing sustainability and environmental awareness through campus and community action. For 4 years, I'm engaged to educate, engage and empower people of all ages with sustainable solutions through research, action and awareness. Through the campaign "Plant for the Planet", it involved more than 700 children and adolescents in planting one million tree to the fight against climate change and desertification for food security on all Cape Verde Islands. Within the framework of the International Water Day 2015, I organized a large awareness of youth on water-related challenges. This success enabled me to be selected by the International Secretariat for Water as African representative at the World Youth Parliament for Water 2015-2018. | I’m currently African Representative in World Youth Parliament for Water (WYPW) 2015-2018, to raise the awareness of young people about the current water-related challenges; to advocate at all levels for youth participation in water-related decision making processes; to undertake youth-led and youth-inclusive local action; to enhance exchange between young people committed to water through networking at all relevant levels and communicate about the achievements and efforts of young people in addressing this worlds water crises. I did a highly diversified training attested by two Masters 1 Degree in "International Economics and Finance" and "Political Science and International Relations" and a Postgraduate in "International Dynamics and Policies: Environmental Management and International Relations". Climate change Activist, I’m West Africa Program Coordinator at PLANT FOR THE PLANET; West Africa Regional Head at the Organisation of African Youth for Development and Peace and Cape Verde Country Director at IDEAS For Us; a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, accredited NGO by United Nations, advancing sustainability and environmental awareness through youth-leg action, focusing on the 5 Pillars of Sustainability (Energy, Water, Food, Waste and Ecology). I work for four years, advocating for sustainable development and peaceful society in Western Africa as Fellow at West Africa Institute. I was Winner of the Essay Competition "Imagine the future of Africa 2025", organized by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Global Development Network (GDN). I’ve previously worked from 2012 to 2013 as a Fellow of the African Climate Change Fellowship Program, leading successfully the project: "Climate Change and Meningitis in Northern Benin". Co-founder of the Non-Government Organization "Better Life NGO" and assist in facilitating the environmental movement throughout Northern Benin by helping to Educate, Engage, and Empower young people in the sustainability movement. I’m polyglot (French, English, Portuguese and Fon, Mahi, Goun, Créole). | https://youtu.be/sf3mFPIUKdo http://www.24haubenin.info/?MESSAGE-DU-REPRESENTANT-DU-BENIN http://noticias.sapo.cv/info/artigo/1436823.html https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WQ21rV1czUE5KX0U/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WbEFTYkFiZF9LbkE/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WZDF2U0RPZU9RcDg/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WRlVQRzVieVlibDA/edit?usp=drive_web https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4Wdjk5LWxvNG9TOXc/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WUkU5WWZnb3pySUE/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WNkx4MUZGRVZ1Y1k/edit?usp=drive_web https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WX2pwRzZIczVrcHM/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WME4tajBlTGJvbkE/edit https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WZURRYTVvR0lpN3c/edit | https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B7tHkU4GZS4WMnRuMnlzbzY0ZTA/edit | http://www.ideasforus.org/ | |||||
58 | 5/1/2015 14:55:07 | Saidu | Khairatul | World Peace Caravan | Nigeria | Nigeria | Female | 16 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | So many people suffered climate change in my country. and if i am given the opportunity to talk at this event. i would express myself and tell them to practice the act of using solar equipment. This act is of great benefit to the World. when this act is promoted then people would suffer less in climate change.If the world should practice the act of using alternative source of energy, Poverty is going to be reduced and the act of cutting down of trees which is good for the ozone layer would be less. Air pollution would be less and and if need be Climate change would end up no being a problem. if i talk at this event, i have been given a great opportunity to tell the world the importance of using An Alternative source of Energy ( SOLAR ENERGY) | Climate change has been a very important problem to so many individuals in my country Nigeria. Being a member at World Peace Caravan. i got attracted to the united nation sustainable development goals. where i came to practice the act of saving climate change. solar equipment has been a very important aspect i came to realize its a great benefit for toward climate change. its fight against poverty because the money would have been use for buying diesel or fuels would be saved. it help in fighting against desertification, people would no longer cut down woods illegally. if solar equipment would be promoted then air pollutions would be reduced. the act would end up saving the Ozone layer which is off great benefit to the world. Practicing the act of using alternative source of Energy has save alot, and i know much well that it is a great benefit to the world against Climate Change. | Khairatul saidu was born on the 9th February 1999in the city of Dutse-Alhaji, Abuja Nigeria. she started her acedemic career at Bill Clinton International School Abuja and finished her primary academic career at Ogodanya Primary School at Kogi State. she was born into the family of Saidu Haruna and originated from Kogi State of Nigeria. She was the first child of her father and the last child of her mother. She was selected has a My Face For Peace representative on 27th 2014. on the 9 February 1999. she was selected as a WORLD PEAECE CARAVAN social media corespondent where she got attracted to the United Nation sustainable development goals and started to lie the life of fighting against Climate Change and Education. Girl Up Teen Advisor 2014-2015.she was also selected as a Youth Millennium Development Ambassador 2015. A member a Institute For Conscious Global Change (ICGC).A member at the world peace alliance.. | Https://drive.google.com/open?id=OBLz8fpAHaWlQkVyeEdpVmpHOEk&authuser=0 | Https://drive.google.com/file/d/OB1Lz8fbAHaWlQ3ViZU5ENFJ6cTg/view?usp=shairing | www.worldpeacecaravan.org/ | |||||
59 | 5/1/2015 14:56:16 | Fogelberg | Teresa | Global Reporting Initiative | Netherlands | Dutch | Female | 61 | Dutch, English, Swedish, French | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | The private sector cannot be a forgotten actor in the fight against climate change. Measuring and reporting emissions, and monitoring a company’s carbon footprint helps them to set goals for efficiency and mitigation. GRI has been building the capacity of companies around the world, in every region, and across sectors to help them monitor this climate information. This information can then be shared with internal management to help build low-carbon strategies, given to stakeholders so they have more information on the environmental impacts of the company, or published publicly so that consumers have knowledge of what companies are doing in the area of climate change. The United Nations system can really benefit from the successes that can be drawn from the private sector, and it is critical that they are highlighted in this high-level summit. | The GRI Guidelines give companies the tools to report on climate sensitive and climate related operations, such as emissions mitigated and reduced per annum, and initiatives that reduce future greenhouse gases in the company’s operations. The following is an example of just one of those companies, and how they have used the GRI Guidelines to confront climate challenges across their global supply chain: Aramex is a global logistics and transportation company, founded in 1982 and based in Jordan. In 2007 Aramex began GRI reporting and became a GRI Organizational Stakeholder. As part of its mitigation efforts, Aramex has upgraded its fleet to Low Emission Vehicles to attain the highest standards of fuel efficiency. Currently, 86% of Aramex’s fleet complies with Euro 4 and 5 emissions standards.What’s more, Aramex has introduced electric motorcycles in India, and is experimenting with converting the entire global fleet of motorcycles into electrically powered bikes. In a progressive step, Aramex is now working on calculating the carbon footprint per shipment, and sharing it with customers to help them make more environmentally-friendly shipping decisions. The company is currently exploring renewable energy opportunities; especially solar and wind for use in its facilities. | As GRI's Deputy Chief Executive Teresa engages in strategic external relationships with businesses, governments, civil society and other stakeholders. Teresa started her career as an anthropologist at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She has spent many years in development organizations, such as International Labor Organization (ILO), United States Agency for International Development, and Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and in several countries in West Africa, where she specialized in gender issues and famine-early warning systems. She has thirteen years’ experience across various managerial positions at the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Head of the Department for Women and Development, and the Research and Higher Education Department. Immediately prior to joining GRI, she worked for the Netherlands Ministry of Environment, where she was Head of the Climate Change and Industry department, and Special Advisor on International Environmental Affairs. In 2002, Teresa acted as Executive Assistant to the Special Envoy of the U.N. Secretary General for the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, and was in charge of private sector involvement in the Summit. Teresa sits on the board of several sustainable development organizations, such as WWF, the International Institute of Environment and Development, and SEED International. Through this diverse experience, Teresa has acquired a unique perspective to the climate change challenge. Teresa has garnered experience in public speaking through participating in a variety of public speaking engagements throughout her career. Many of these include global international conferences. For example, she was chosen as a speaker to address the General Assembly of the United Nations in 2014 on how to create an effective accountability framework for the Sustainable Development Goals. | Please find this link of Teresa Fogelberg speaking at the Global Conference for Sustainability and Reporting in Amsterdam in May 2013, alongside Mr. Georg Kell, Executive Director UN Global Compact. As you can see Teresa is an eloquent speaker, who knows how to communicate clearly to a diverse audience. https://vimeo.com/69013850 | Please find a link to Teresa Fogelberg’s CV here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3HtcLYJL1hXX3NfMFFaRGlKanM/view?usp=sharing | https://www.globalreporting.org/ | |||||
60 | 5/1/2015 16:03:40 | Roske | Xiuhtezcatl | Earth Guardian | USA | Hispanic | Male | 14 | English/Spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am under 18 but want to be a voice for all children under 18's and for 18+ at this event. I also want to be a voice for developed countries and developing countries. As long as I can remember, I have been connected to the natural world– the mountains, forests and rivers of Colorado. I was raised in the Aztec tradition in which my father taught me that as Indigenous people, we are descendants of the original caretakers of the land– and all life was sacred. As I began to learn about the global crisis, I vowed to do everything in power to fight for my generation the Earth and the kind of world that we are going to be left with. I feel I can bring and indigenous youth perspective that is fresh and inspiring to this event and that it can be a platform to inspire many people into action to protect our future. | My name is Xiuhtezcatl and I am an Indigenous Environmental Activist. I have been on the frontlines of climate activism since I was six years old. I have worked with community leaders across the US and collaborated with over 50 environmental organizations to eliminate pesticides from parks, achieve a fee for plastic bags, contain coal ash, and get a moratorium on fracking in Boulder County. Along with other youth, I have filed law suits agains my State and the Federal Government for not protecting the atmosphere. I have met with congress and white house officials and recieved public support for our lawsuits. I am also working on a statewide ban on fracking through a lawsuit I filed against the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission. I have spoken at United Nations events in the US and at the Rio+20 UN summit, and the International Day of Peace on the importance of Peace with the Earth in 2014. I give presentations in schools colleges and conferences across the US and different parts of the world, educating my generation on the crisis we are facing and empowering them into positive creative action in their communities. I launched a campaign called RYSE - Rising Youth for a Sustainable Earth and chose 15 young climate leaders across the United States that came together for a leadership training in NY in March that will now be training youth climate solutionaries in their communities. Our goal is to train 500 young people this year to be climate leaders. You can learn more at http://www.earthguardians.org/ryse/ | I am the youth director of a non profit organization called Earth Guardians. Earth Guardians is committed to protecting the Earth, the air, the water and the atmoshere. I am a passionate voice for my generation and have mobilized youth all over the planet to start Earth Guardian crews in there communities to work on climate change and environmental issues that are directly effecting our future. There are now 52 Earth Guardian crews in 25 countries. I am a extremely experienced speaker and not unconfortable in any size crowd. I have spoken for up to 5,000 people at a time and so passionate about my cause and sharing my message that I am not nervous at all. Our generation is facing one of the biggest threats to human civilization and I believe that we will rise to the occasion to change the direction we are headed and leave future generations a healthy, sustainable, habitable planet! | 1. Speaking on RYSE - Rising Youth for a Sustainable Earth https://vimeo.com/115462027 2. Kid Warrior - My Story: https://vimeo.com/125505125 3. TedX - Our Generation was born to change the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2V2yVkedtM 4. Youth Leadership https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1awXAE63Yk | My resume - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9cojmmrq-kyVVI4a3pDQ1RzUUk/view?usp=sharing | www.earthguardians.org/ | |||||
61 | 5/1/2015 18:14:20 | Vega | Gerónimo | FECONA | Iquitos | Peru | Hombre | 31 | Españish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Sobre los problemas sociales, económicos, ambientales, políticas y corrupción que afectan a los pueblos y a la sociedad en general, y comprometernos a desarrollar políticas publicas social mente que ayuden a mejorar las condiciones de vida de las sociedades menos favorecidas; y que las empresas desarrollen una política de responsabilidad con compromisos sociales, ambientales y economicos GOOGLE TRANSLATE On the social, economic, environmental, political and corruption problems affecting the people and society in general, and commit to develop public social policies mind to help improve the living conditions of the poorest societies; and companies to develop a policy of accountability with social, environmental and economic commitments | Los pueblos que habitan en los trópicos húmedos son vulnerables ante los efectos del cambio climático. Por tal motivos, los gobiernos, organismos internacionales de carácter científico, académico y financiero, deben conocimientos científicos y validar los conocimientos de los pueblos indígenas para mitigar y adaptarse frente al Cambio Climático. Los organismos financieros deberían promover programas y/o proyectos sostenibles y rentables en los pueblos con la finalidad de manejar los bosques para la captura de carbono. GOOGLE TRANSLATE The peoples living in the humid tropics are vulnerable to the effects of climate change. For this reason, governments, international organizations, scientific, academic and financial, should scientific knowledge and validate the knowledge of indigenous peoples to mitigate and adapt to Climate Change. The financial institutions should promote programs and / or sustainable and profitable in the villages in order to manage forests for carbon capture projects. | Geronimo Vega. del pueblo indigena Bora, con formación profesional en Ingenieria Agroforestal Acuicola, viene trabajando en temas sociales, ambientales, economicos y politica de integración social GOOGLE TRANSLATE Geronimo Vega. Bora indigenous people with training in Engineering Acuicola Agroforestry, has been working on social, environmental, economic and political issues of social integration | www.fecona.co.cr/ | |||||||
62 | 5/1/2015 23:07:10 | Lee | Miseon | Oakton Model United Nations | United States | South Korea | Female | 17 | English, Korean | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because of the personal meaning the United Nations carries, the importance of the need for the voice of the youth to be heard, and my passion for international progress towards environmental sustainability. The United Nations encompasses much of the values that I hold dear at heart and I am well aware of the different bodies at work in the United Nations from my experience and success in Model United Nations in international conferences and regional conferences from Columbia University Model United Nations to University of Virginia Model United Nations. As a youth who have spent my childhood in both rural and urban South Korea, now living in the United States, I am well exposed to the challenges and difficulties that developing countries face. I believe that the lessons of South Korea's miraculous development can be a beacon of hope to nations that are developing, as development is tied closely with the environment. I am a strong advocate for environmental sustainability and have closely followed the environmental progress made and the challenges that the UN faces in implementing global policies. Most importantly, this event will give me the opportunity to reaffirm my belief in the need for the youth to contribute in this international discussion and give back to the international community my insight in environmental policies, analysis of environmental issues, and experience in a developing country. | As a firm believer in the role that the youth plays in mapping out the environmental policies of the coming decades, I have been actively involved in reaching out to the community on environmental issues, especially in the context of the United Nations. I have founded the Environmentally Aware International Perspectives organization at my high school and have led this club to publishing and posting our editorials and research papers to raise awareness for the importance of the environment in different global perspectives. As a dedicated leader in Oakton Model United Nations, I have reached out to high school students on environmental issues and lectured students and teachers on the environmental progress that the UN is making, such as the recent Sustainable Development Goals. Through educating my community and raising awareness through publications of environmental issues, I advocate for environmental sustainability. | I am the secretary, soon to-be president of Oakton Model United Nations and have trained over 100 high students to participate in the different issue, especially environmental policy that the United Nations discusses in its different committees. My success in Model United Nations, as well as Speech, as an extemporaneous speaker, would not have been possible if not for my public speaking skills. I am a confident speaker, who regularly speaks in public as a tour guide of the Newseum in Washington, DC.and would be honored to address the assembly, where the environmental actions that I so passionately follow, happen and will happen with enough international attention, including those of the youth. | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1v12cYoutZEAzRcfNIc9OrTv4z1s51nm8lNo1fq_8OdI/edit?usp=sharing | |||||||
63 | 5/2/2015 6:08:22 | d'Halluweyn | Elodie | Végétik | Belgium | Belgian | Female | 23 | French - English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | The consumption of animal protein is the main cause of emissions of greenhouse gases, deforestation, consumption of drinking water, destruction of natural habitats and biodiversity. How can we protect the environment this theme? Végétik's work is essential as we provide individuals the impacts that cause their eating habits and helping them to change, and thus to reduce the environmental footprint of the population and reduce climate change. | Végétik made a research to know the environmental impacts that generates the consumption of animal protein. After this research work of scientific knowledge about it, our mission is to inform the public about the negative consequences that the consumption of meat or dairy products causes on the planet. In this context, we organize conferences, we go to schools, we participate in some of European experts groups, this in order to inform and educate people. Parallel to this, we want to help people to change their eating habits. In this context, we organize courses cooking, we explain how to balance its supply by removing them all animal products. | 1) Elodie is the coordinator of Végétik Bruxelles (Vegetik Brussels), the Brussels cell of belgian ONG Végétik. 2) Elodie is the responsible of Végétik Bruxelles. Then she is used to deal with the topics about environmental impacts of animal proteins consumption. She manages partnership with others organizations, she represents Végétik on TV, radio, or experts groups. She is used to speak in front of people. She studied political sciences and environmental management. 3) Elodie has some expériences in speaking on radio, TV, making conferences or debate. She has also experience in international meetings and cooperation, because she attended two international students meetings : World Student Environmental Summit (WSEN 2014) in South Africa and Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES 2015) in Switzerland and she is in the internal committee of WSES. | https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/v/t1.0-9/11072001_10153340342568933_8958838385515752742_n.jpg?oh=452584a9f21524727031b734810568da&oe=55D08F67&__gda__=1436180018_a0e7e737b45506a7c37efc13841a81a3 | http://www.vegetik.org/ | ||||||
64 | 5/2/2015 17:04:06 | Soriano | Angela | CONDESAN (Consortium for sustainable development in the andean ecoregion) | Peru | Peruvian | Female | 23 | Spanish, English, French | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I consider climate change will have a profound effect in women specially in developing countries. Moreover, I am sure youth will be responsible of resolving climate change issues. As young female, I want to be considered and speak not only for my country but speaking for other young women and inspire them to take action on this issue. | As a Young Climate Change Leader, I believe civil society can have a high level of influence within governments and society. Peru is a country that will suffer the impacts of climate change. In the past few years I have been able to see how the Amazon forest has been damaged, how glaciers are dissapearing and how it will affect not only the environment but small communities. I grew up doing volunteering work where I was able to see other aspects of life. For this reason, one of my goals is to have my own non govermental organization, that aims to protect the Amazon forest and other environmental issues I have been able to see in my own country. | Angela is an International Relations Student focused in climate change issues. She has been working lately with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) in the implementation of the National Mountain Committee. She has also worked for the Peru Green Building Council where she worked with the Canadian Goverment and MINAM in the working group for the implementation of the NAMA in Peru. Angela also worked as an intern in the Organization of American States where she was able to take courses to implement programs, projects and politics that empower female participation in societies. Angela had the innitiative to promote the Organization of American States internship program in San Ignacio de Loyola University and University of Lima in a one hour presentation | Angela presented in University of Lima and San Ignacio de Loyola University. She is comfortable speaking in front of crowds. | https://drive.google.com/a/condesan.org/file/d/0B_t0soEqIrcGZndxTkNuRDhkWTQ/view?usp=sharing | www.condesan.org/ | |||||
65 | 5/3/2015 9:40:43 | NWAOBI | GODWIN | QUANTITATIVE ECONOMIC RESEARCH BUREAU | NIGERIA | nigeria | MALE | 49 | ENGLISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | TO SHARE AFRICAN RESEARCH EXPERIENCE WITH GLOBAL PARTICIPANTS | As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world is becoming a warmer place principally attributable to human activities. Regrettably, the physical impacts of future climate change on humans and the environment will include increasing stresses on and even collapses of ecosystems, biodiversity loss, changing timing of growing seasons, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification as well as shifting ranges for pests and diseases. Consequently, development goals are threatened by climate change with heaviest impacts on poor countries and poor people. In particular, African countries will bear the brunt of effects of climate change, even as they strive to overcome poverty and advance economic growth. For these countries, climate change threatens to deepen vulnerabilities, erode hard-won gains and seriously undermine prospects for development. Using environmental impact and sustainability applied general equilibrium model, this paper argues that climate change will negatively affect agricultural productivity in Africa. Although the obligations to mitigate and adapt to climate change (and to go green) may be costly, it can actually represent an opportunity for African economies. As latecomers, Africa has indeed an opportunity to be at the forefront of the green revolution by implementing green development strategies based on low energy –intensity, low-carbon emissions and clean technologies. | Prof. Godwin Chukwudum Nwaobi is a distinguished African scholar and a world class economist. He was a visiting professor of economics (econometrics) at Bingham University, Abuja, Nigeria. He is an alumnus of University of Warwick, University of Ibadan, and University of Nigeria. His research interest includes computational economics, macro-econometrics and general equilibrium modeling. He has published extensively (electronically) in reputable national and international journals. He has also consulted for several national and international organizations. Recently, he was ranked as one of the best two hundred young economists in the world (www.repec.org). Prof Nwaobi is currently the research director of Quantitative Economic Research Bureau, Nigeria, West Africa (www.quanterb.org). His recent publications include Modern Econometric modeling for Developing Economies III as well as The Derivative Markets: Structure, Characteristics and Practice. | http://www.quanterb.org | http://www.quanterb.org/nwaobicv.pdf | http://quanterb.org/ | |||||
66 | 5/3/2015 14:30:30 | AMARAL | HELVIA | WORK IN COURT | BRASIL | BRASILEIRA | FEMININO | 51 | ESPANHOL E PORTUGUÊS | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY INVOLVEMENT WITH UN WORK IN ONU | I HAVE SKILLS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WANT ME TO INVOLVE WORKING UN | I HAVE SKILLS IN PUBLIC SPEAKING AND WANT ME TO INVOLVE WORKING ONU | ||||||||
67 | 5/3/2015 14:55:00 | Fembe | Mbeh Silvian | Tano Associates Chambers | Cameroon | Cameroonian | Female | 31 | English, French | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak to express the most important issue of what is left out in the climate change dialogue and its meaning leaving out the most fundamental issue many are not talking about leaving the entire bottom up approach vulnerable to many other challenges. | The mobilisation of grassroots, the common people, women and youths in their agricultural practices is most fundamental in mitigating climate change. The work in forests conservation, reforestation, agricultural innovation and food security if they are properly empowered. they form the majority of the people on the planet earth and impact change directly on the natural resources. | I am a lawyer by profession and have been working in empowering women, young people and local communities directly attached to the resources. | I want to speak to express the most important issue of what is left out in the climate change dialogue and its meaning leaving out the most fundamental issue many are not talking about leaving the entire bottom up approach vulnerable to many other challenges. | |||||||
68 | 5/4/2015 0:26:04 | irungu | Alvin | Change Mind Change Future | Kenya | Kenyan | Male | 19 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like to speak because I would like to show the world the importance of being able to maintain a clean environment and how it relates with climate action change. | In my line, of trying to achieve a successful local climate action, I have been able to engage myself in clean up activities in Kenya, from various organisations . The clean up activities are mostly in rivers and the surrounding environment. Also, been working on planting of trees countrywide with the aim of getting a clean environment. | In the organisation, I am a volunteer, I have been able to engage with different organisations in trying to find a more clean and comfortable environment to live in. Volunteership organisations are willing to mobilise young people from different backgrounds, and being able to engage with them in trying to work on their goals and objectives. I believe I am a good public speaker, I have been able to represent my organisation in various places to share our own goals and the strategic planning to take up. | http://www.changemindchangefuture.org/ | |||||||
69 | 5/4/2015 11:15:42 | Valverde | Ruth | PNUD | BRASIL | BRASIL | FEMALE | 52 | 2 | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | I subscribed to the Ngo 'Climate change ' and i am searching Always the News of greeepeace, WWA and others News of climate searches , conferences and in the world engagement or Earth desastres that affect the population and wahst are the progress envolved. | In all world the population suffers sudenly or not the results of the non eficient sistem in the society att the actually days to control and reverse the damages in clime on the Earth .Unfortunately sucess in this theme depends of integrated effotrs and alert the hole population .So its very important to open participations of the civil society members in the discussion. | Organization PNUD ,CIVICUS Graduated Nurse since 1982,Activist of Human Rigths,Pnud Volunteer, was at Rio+20 Brazil conference as delegate worked as voluntary to the NGOs,ONU Award 2012 winner voluntary group ,Acnowledge UNWomen member,Greenpeace member ,Fao member , climate change member ,participating with texts and colaborations required in many plataforms of UN,voluntary helping people on the popular issues and complaints of human rigths ,indigenous people, children,workers and all goals of sust. development. EOTO MEMBER DELEGATION RIO PLUS 20 http://www.eotoworld.org/ EOTO World Delegation Member : http://www.greenpeace-comunicacao.org.br/email/cyberativismo/ciber_25-05-2012a.html ACTIVIST MEMBER http://ligadasflorestas.org.br/users/116987 https://www.riodialogues.org/accept-code-of-conduct É MINHA FUNÇÃO :Listar todos os canais/meios de divulgação c potencial para divulgar, replicar e participar dos debates virtuais .As recomendações dos diálogos na votação pública n início de junho http://zartanayori.multiply.com/assinatura-peticao-contra-belo-monte.php BRASILNOCORRUPTION MEMBER http://www.avaaz.org/po/the_world_vs_wall_st/?vl URL ZARTANAYORI.MULTIPLY.COM 1MILION HUNGRY CAMPAIN LIDER PETITON AGAINST MORAL HARASSMENT' AGRESSION IN WORK' http://www.peticaopublica.com.br/PeticaoVer.aspx?pi=P2011N7457 ACTIVIST AND defender of Human Rights, UNDP and UN Voluntary AWARDS 2012 WITH AWARD 2012, DELEGATED OFICICAL THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT RIO +20 R/RJ-2012, NGO'S OFFICIAL AMBASSADOR IN N.YORK EOTO WORLD IN 2013, THE OFFICIAL MEMBER INTERNATIONAL NGO CIVICUS. UNV Roster Number: 524911 MIDIA RUTH FERREIRA VALVERDE http://www.onlinevolunteering.org/en/org/stories/2012_undpbrazil.html http://www.eotoworld.com/ http://www.pnud.org.br/Noticia.aspx?id=3666 PNUD http://www.facebook.com/unvolunteers/posts/378113665607975 | I have some interwwes i done on Rio+20: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2IXY-MYQfE | http://www.pnud.org.br/ | ||||||
70 | 5/4/2015 11:51:41 | Oginga | Dancan | Amkeni Wakenya | Kenya | Kenyan | Male | 31 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | My country is one of the third world countries in East and Central Africa which still faced with this challenge of climate change,i want to sensitive the entire world that if youths can take their time well to help advocate for other alternative means that can help reduce the carbon emission then we can achieve a good results,this is because youths have the potential skills and they are the majority hence this can bring a bigger change. | Within our networks and the entire civil society organization, societies, and organizations is a great way to reduce our carbon dioxide emissions. Using green transportation such as a bicycle, carpooling with friends and neighbors, or riding public transportation and sensitizing the communities to use alternative source of fire cooking rather than using charcoal and firewood can all greatly reduce the impact that we have in the environment. We need to all work together in our communities to organize easy ways to provide a more sustainable form of transportation. Here in Kenya and mostly our organizations we've tried to organized a Carbon Fuel Reduction Initiative, CFRI, to help in transport sector so that it can reduce the reduced carbon footprint while using the environmentally friendly. The entire civil society organization with the support of the CBOS, in one year we’ve prevented over 18,800 pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere, which is more than what 360 trees could absorb in a year if the trend is retrogressive and fully supported as we did, We all can work together with our businesses, high learning institutions and high schools, and organizations to create similar programs too that help protect our planet for future generations.’ It is still a work in progress, and we are trying to keep the focus on the solution being that its a civil society and community based initiative. | I am enthusiastic, self-motivated and highly organized individual with keen sense of ethics and integrity in dealing with climate and environmental issues i have been the Team leader in advocating the free and save environment free from carbon emissions.Responsible for distinguished ability to manage innovative skills and ideas to solve the environmental challenges that are facing the entire world today. | PERSONAL SKILLS Effective Communication Analytical Attention to detail Target orientated Pro-active problem solver Efficient Time-management Multi-Tasking Keen & fast learner Positive attitude Good leadership and interpersonal skills Ability to perform with minimum supervision Effective Team Player Applications Using Accounting and financial applications Enthusiastic, self-motivated and highly organised individual with keen sense of ethics and integrity in dealing with clients and service providers .Responsible for distinguished ability to perform under strict deadlines and pressure. Seeking a new & challenging position, one which will make best use of my existing skills and experience & also further my development ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS Masters in Science Financial Management, and Strategic Planning. Bachelor of Business Management Degree (Finance and Banking option); | http://www.amkeniwakenya.org/ | ||||||
71 | 5/5/2015 18:18:20 | Connor-Afflick | Amelia | Restless Development | England | English | Female | 19 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | The environment has always been a concern for me; as I've grown up, especially through my teen years, society became more concerned about environmental issues. It wasn't until I went and volunteered in Nepal that I realised how much more involved I wanted to be in helping environmental causes. Going to Nepal I expected the environment to be beautiful, untouched and virtually litter free. My expectations were wrong, everywhere there was litter, pollution, burning of plastic and no knowledge or concern for caring about the environment. Working in a school in a rural village, me and my fellow volunteers wanted to take action on environmental issues in Nepal. We organised sessions to educate the youth about protecting the environment, we created bins made form local bamboo wood and distributed them throughout the community and we also spoke to local politicians about how Nepal needs to establish a system for waste collection. Our efforts were all done in the hope that the community we were in would improve their environment. Seeing the lack of concern for the environment in Nepal really worried me. The environmental threat is global, not just a western issue, it will effect everyone, and in all honesty it will be the underdeveloped countries such as Nepal who will be effected by climate change first. I realised abuse to Earth is happening everywhere, regardless of the countries development levels and we all need to act together to address these issues which is why I am keen to be involved in the UNs event on climate change. | The environment has always been a concern for me, as I've grown up, society has become more concerned about environmental issues. It wasn't until I went and volunteered in Nepal that I realised how much more involved I wanted to be in helping environmental causes. Going to Nepal I expected the environment to be untouched and virtually litter free. My expectations were wrong, everywhere there was litter, pollution, burning of plastic and no knowledge or concern for caring about the environment. Working in a school in a rural village, me and my fellow volunteers wanted to take action on environmental issues in Nepal. We organised sessions to educate the youth about protecting the environment, we created bins made form local bamboo wood and distributed them throughout the community and we also spoke to local politicians about how Nepal needs to establish a system for waste collection. Our efforts were all done in the hope that the community we were in would improve their environment. Seeing the lack of concern for the environment in Nepal really worried me. The environmental threat is global, not just a western issue, it will affect everyone, and it will be the underdeveloped countries such as Nepal who will be effected by climate change first. I realised abuse to Earth is happening everywhere, regardless of the countries development levels and we all need to act together to address these issues which is why I am keen to be involved in the UNs event on climate change. | I volunteered in Nepal for 3 months with Restless Development (Jan-Apr 2015) where I led events with stake holders and would compromise ideas in order to achieve things. An example of an event we carried out was a street rally to raise awareness about gender equality, which involved a great deal of decision making. We had to negotiate and liaise with locals to deliver a rally which was effective and could be understood by the community, according to their culture. My main role as a volunteer for Restless Development was to empower the youth in rural areas in Nepal, which I believe I achieved. An example of how I meet the criteria above is how I was a member of Liverpool Schools' Parliament, I would vote and decide on issues that I deemed important. All the members of Liverpool Schools Parliament would raise issues of concern about their local community and we would discuss these issues and come to a final agreement on what action we believed should be taken. As a member of European Youth Parliament and the Debate Chamber I took on a lot of public speaking, we had to discuss what arguments we could use in our debates. We would all agree on the most effective argument and who was best suited to make that speech, against opposing teams. It was important for me as a speaker to speak well in order to improve our chances of success. As the Young Lord Mayor of Liverpool I delivered numerous speeches in public. I would attend local events with the Lord Mayor and I would deliver speeches based on the youths concerns, at youth club openings, co-operative information events and so forth. I am an engaged member of society and I would consider myself an active citizen in political and global affairs. I am more than comfortable with public speaking and will be engaged with Restless Development's work for months to continue. | at 1:38pm I talk about disaster relief for the victims affected by the Nepal earthquake. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02p8ss7 | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1iCMZHur9Aon35prW3OgRXJma8cwrU0sYMNVU0PuhQQc&authuser=0 | http://restlessdevelopment.org/ | |||||
72 | 5/5/2015 21:40:55 | Theofelus | Emma | NANSO | Namibia | Namibian | Female | 19 | English, Afrikaans and Oshiwambo | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Namibia as a developing country over the years has been hit hard with sever droughts and terrible floods due to the inconsistent weather and climate patterns and as some-one that cares very much for the environment, I quickly realized that it is not only my community, society and government that need to realize that better mechanisms need to be adapted to save our environment because climate change is real and every nation needs to contribute to saving our planet but also the rest of the countries in the world because it is meant to be a collective effort and the best place to have all the change agents in one room is at a United Nations event. | Early last year my friends and I that were part of a school environmental club had a chance to attend the COP 11 event hosted by my country and during my attendance I was inspired by the reality that is climate change and that if I don't contribute to making my environment healthier there will be no world to look forward to. And ever since then I have been reading on mechanisms to make our world a better and greener place and during that time, I managed to raise funding to make a small vegetable garden at a center in my community that I volunteer at and teach the children there about climate change and its devastating effects like the severe floods and droughts we experience in Namibia. I also got in touch with local organisations such as the Environmental Investment Fund to assist me in conducting my activities efficiently and effectively. Until a month ago, my garden and its Eco-friendly procedures also had worms that were breeding in the garden because their waste acted as natural fertilizer for the plants. I have also been attending climate change workshops and environmental seminars to learn about the steps organisations and other counries are doing to combat climate change, | Emma Theofelus is a talented young woman that can be called a leader on all levels. She was a participant of KAYEC Trust's Youth program for five years and during that time she had countless leadership training and obtained leadership positions at school, regional and national level. Ms. Theofelus is now currently volunteering with us in the same program she went through and is teaching our young participants debating and public speaking skills. She is a national debater and has represented Namibia on international platforms. Ms. Theofelus was the head girl of both her primary and high schools and is currently studying first year Law at the University of Namibia. She is a former Junior Mayor of the City of Windhoek and is a member of the National Children's Parliament therefore her public speaking skills are very impressive. She is very passionate about the environment, children's rights and a youth activist in Namibia. she has in depth knowledge on almost all things related to the environment and is planning to become an environmental lawyer upon graduation. Ms. Theofelus is a focused, disciplined and well-rounded young woman and would be the most ideal candidate to address the UN delegates at your event. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzj2Su1bx4FzdU1uVlFRRHFHbFU/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzj2Su1bx4FzQnc2RkRBX25tbjg/view?usp=sharing | http://www.nanso.org.na/ | |||||
73 | 5/6/2015 1:12:44 | Khan | Abdul | Habib University Environmental Club | Pakistan | Pakistani | Male | 20 | English/Urdu/Chitrali | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I think that it is a very prestigious opportunity for someone like me who is really into caring about the mother earth, environment, climate and the nature. It will give me huge exposure about the climate change and will motivate me and my club to do more work with environmental challenges and climate change. | We have made this club in the newly established university, Habib University Karachi, Pakistan. Considering the current environmental break down in the world and specially in Karachi due to the various pollution factors; we have made this club as it is very important to do more research about environmental issues and how we can deal with them in local levels. Our university organized an environmental conference in national level which was covered by various NEWS channels and was a huge success. We are looking forward to do more about the climate change due to global warming and such issues in the future. | http://habib.edu.pk/ | ||||||||
74 | 5/6/2015 3:38:53 | SOOPAL | LUTCHMEECANT | MAURITIUS COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SERVICE(MACOSS) AND CLAVET SAMELAN SABHA | MAURITIUS | Mauritian | MALE | 48 | ENGLISH AND FRENCH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | A dynamic civil society influencing policies and actions at all levels safeguard the global environment and promote sustainable development. strengthen civil society partnership with communities by enhancing participation, contributing to policy and stimulating action ENHANCE THE ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN SAFEGUARDING THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT Support outreach and awareness on global environment issues Document and disseminate experience and best practice to address global environment issues Encourage civil society contributions to the negotiation and implementation of Conventions Strengthen capacity of civil society to address global environment issues through engagement in policy making dialog at the national, regional and global level STRENGTHEN GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ENHANCED PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CIVIL SOCIETY AND GOVERNMENT Support promotion programs and activities to Civil Society Enhance Civil Society involvement in Country, regional and global Projects Support the effective access of local communities and civil society organizations to government resources STRENGTHEN THE CSO NETWORK CAPACITY Enhance Governance capability of the CSO Network promote active membership Improve the NGO Network Communication and procurement of funding | Assisting in the planning and coordination of the activities in climate change of member organisations. Have organised workshops, seminars, conferences and training courses for voluntary social workers, personnel of voluntary organisations, non-governmental organisations and professionals to strengthen their organizational and managerial capabilities in the specific topics of sustainable development Co-ordinating the activities of NGOs in emergency and natural disaster activities and programmes. Collect, diffuse and share information pertaining to climate education and development in particular. | President Clavet Samelan Sabha- (NGO) Elected Council Member - Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) Chairperson - Recruitment, Retention and Development of NGOs - MACOSS Chairperson - Youth -(MACOSS) Member of Committee - Sustainable Development (Environmental Issues) Member of Committee - Establishment Member of Committee - Welfare for disable persone Election Observer - SADC CNGO | Degree in Agriculture Graduate Diploma in Electrical Engineering Rector – State Secondary School Vocational Ministry of Education Chairman National Federation of Young Farmer Club Administrative Secretary /Human Resources Manager Board Secretary Elected Board member Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) Chairperson - Sub Committee for Welfare for Disable Person Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) Election Observer SADC Malagasy Presidential and Parliament election (round 1&2) Chairperson - Sub Committee for Recruitment, Retention and Development of NGOs Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) Chairperson - Sub Committee for Youth Mauritius Council of Social Service (MACOSS) Resources Person/Coordinator for Millennium Development Goal / Post 2015 Mauritius (MDG –Post 2015 SDG) Southern African Development Country – Council of Non-Governmental Organisation SADC -CNGO Coordinator – Action 2015 African Focal Point - Mauritius | http://www.macoss.mu/ | ||||||
75 | 5/6/2015 5:19:11 | Christian | Tijani | Plant Jamaica | Jamaica | Jamaican | Male | 24 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change is an important issue that must be addressed by all nations multi-laterally. It is certainly one of this century's greatest destabilizing forces which undermines our global economy, threatens our health and increasingly leads to military conflict. Climate change encompasses sustainable agriculture, energy security, climate-related conflict and climate negotiations and agreements. All of these factors are interrelated and are crucial to the sustainable development of this planet. I will forever be a advocate for sustainable development in regards to climate change initiatives; however, this opportunity will be a platform for my voice to be heard in the dialogue from the youth perspective. It will be the unedited truth of the reality that is taking place in the world as developed countries need to fully understand the severity of the damage that such unconscious actions are causing to the environment and even more, duplicating effect it has on developing countries such as Jamaica (my island). | Plant Jamaica is a non-governmental organization born out of a desire to promote sustainable livelihoods through community farms. The NGO was formed creating solutions that are environmentally friendly and sustainable, but has evolved into so much more than farming. Plant Jamaica’s guiding principles are: “Eat what you grow” – plant healthy produce, which can provide nutrition for the community which houses them. “Use what you have” –Teach the community how to re-use and re-purpose, ideally to create new income streams. “Clean up and beautify” – Teach the importance of keeping the communities clean. Create more aesthetically appealing environments. “Expand your mind” - Provide tools that can harness innate (or natural) talent within some of Jamaica’s most underserved communities. We strive to connect formally trained artists, artisans, entrepreneurs, business developers to move community-driven ideas, products and services to a marketable and sustainable scale. Plant Jamaica kicked off its first project with a massive volunteer weekend August 16 – 17, 2014, and its second on October 25, 2014. 2015 will see an increased focus on creating school farms and your donations will go towards helping lower income schools create, manage and eventually earn from their small farms. Plant Jamaica's 15 year vision is for these school farms to so impact the children across communities, that they in turn create their own farms, recycle and repurpose, and move forward to create sustainable incomes for themselves and their families. | Tijani Christian is a vibrant, confident and dedicated 24 years old from Waterhouse, St. Andrew who considers himself a ‘servant leader’. He is a part-time teacher of Caribbean Studies at his alma mater, Jamaica College and a certified Life Skills Coach from George Brown College in Toronto, Canada. His foray into leadership started at quite an early age. He has held leadership position in different arenas, namely Special Advisor to the National Youth Council of Jamaica; Permanent Staff Instructor in the Jamaica Combined Cadet Force presently at the rank of Staff Sergeant; Member of the National Diagnostics and Referral System Committee for HEART Trust/NTA and the Jamaican Foundation for Lifelong Learning, Youth Consultant for the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reform Process and Member/Ambassador of Plant Jamaica. Tijani is also a Pastor and youth development advocate who has received numerous awards and recognition for his outstanding performance as a leader. These include the UTS Griffin Trust Scholarship of the United Kingdom from 2004 - 2007, the Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Bursary 2007, the Ministry of National Security Scholarship 2007, Commandant Commendation from the JCCF for Top Cadet in 2010, the UWI Service Award for Outstanding Performance 2011 - 2015, Guest Speaker at the Caribbean Youth Day Celebrations in Nassau, Bahamas 2013, selected to represent Jamaica at the Commonwealth Youth Leadership Conference in Scotland , represented The University of the West Indies in the UWISTAT Ambassadorial Island Visit to the Bahamas in 2012 and the recipient of the Prime Minister’s National Youth Award for Excellence for 2013 in the category of Leadership. Most recently, Tijani has been selected as the Youth Ambassador of Jamaica to the Commonwealth and inducted as an Official Member of the CARICOM Single Market & Economy (CSME) Spokesperson Bureau. Tijani is currently pursuing a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Policy and Development at The University of the West Indies. | http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/More-than-half-the-Commonwealth-is-youth---Nicholson_18569065 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhq_A56bSco http://www.tribune242.com/news/2013/oct/02/celebrating-the-youth-of-the-caribbean/ http://www.youthjamaica.com/content/prime-ministers-youth-awards-nominee-2013-tijani-christian http://www.trackalerts.com/Articles/francis-thompson-martin-get-prime-ministers-youth-awards/12170/ https://www.crowdrise.com/plantjamaicaup | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | www.facebook.com/PlantJamaica and https://www.crowdrise.com/plantjamaicaup | |||||
76 | 5/6/2015 7:56:04 | OTU | Uwem | African Youth Movement (AYM) | Nigeria | Nigeria | Male | 40 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | To blend local ideas with international best practices on a global scene | In 2013, we at the African Youth Movement have convened the National Platform on Disaster Risk Reduction and the Post HFA 2015 which held on May 14, 2013 at the Benue Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. It was addressed by the SRSG, Margareta Wahlstrom and was high MDG profile event. Here is the link for the speech of the SRSG on Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) and Head of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) during the AYM's National Platform for DRR which held on May 14 2013 at the Benue Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3rxd1ksveE In September, we attended the UNGA where our input was highlighted and accepted. Here is the link to the outcome video of the UNGA which featured our ideas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E82PzJXO_G8 We equally made input to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 in Sri Lanka where our side event on Disabilities in Emergencies was accepted for the Youth Panel Side Event. Our efforts has generated local resilience knowledge on disaster risk reduction management over a space od ten years locally and internationally - www.wise-qatar.org/uwen-robert-otu | Otu, Uwem Robert is Influence Africa’s Country Director in Nigeria. Before joining Influence Africa, Uwem was engaged as the Country Chair, Global Network for Disaster Risk Reduction- an implementing centre of the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. He is the Executive Director, Global Advocacy for Toilet and Sanitary Standards Initiative (GATSSI) and the President, African Youth Movement-an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the Economic & Social Council (ECOSOC) / Department of Public Information (DPI) of the United Nations. With over 10 years experience in Disaster Risk Reduction, Uwem has convened various developmental programmes such as National Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in Nigeria and Steering Committee Member, Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Campaign, Nigeria. Uwem has a Master of Science degree in Biochemistry, Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria. He has an International Diploma in Environmental Pollution Control and Waste Management at the Institute of Science, Research & Technology, Tunis, Tunisia. He also has a Bachelor of Science in Clinical Biochemistry, University of Uyo, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. -------- • Presenter, Connecting for Sustainable Change, United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Forum, London, United Kingdom. January 24th-27th 2010 • Presenter, World Water Week, Stockholm International Water Institute, August 2011, Stockholm, Sweden • Speaker, World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Doha, Qatar, November 1-3, 2011 • Speaker, World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), Doha, Qatar, November 1-5, 2012 • Invited Delegate, High Level Segment on Africa, The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Africa, United Nations, New York. July 09, 2012 • Presenter, World Water Week, Stockholm International Water Institute, August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden • Plenary Speaker, 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, August 26-29, 2014 UN Headquarters, New York • Exhibitor, 65th Annual UN DPI/NGO Conference, August 26-29, 2014 UN Headquarters, New York ----------- | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGdHpiY29kR045cEk/view?usp=sharing - weblinks for video and articles https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGQVU1SUszZFJTdGM/view?usp=sharing - grassroot participation article https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGMm1pTjFXSTBzMTA/view?usp=sharing - community reserach network article https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGQWJuaWwxQ0h6cTg/view?usp=sharing - video of 65th annual un dpingo conf https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGbDBkdUdod3ctUDg/view?usp=sharing - hfa discussion https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGLUhGSDk3UW5TOW8/view?usp=sharing - iddr/abuja march https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGcFdFbnFmYTZfN3M/view?usp=sharing - development concept | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7bXhT-VQlXGdzRmLWM0enJNMnM/view?usp=sharing | http://www.africanyouthmovement.org/ | |||||
77 | 5/6/2015 12:08:49 | MWILA | BRUCE | none | ZAMBIA | ZAMBIAN | MALE | 19 | ENGLISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because I want to share and learn from the international community on the steps they are taking to reduce climate change | Climate change is a great phenomenon that has created a massive change in the weather conditions of our mother earth. The impact is massive, even in the difficult run we can still make a change ,it doesn't matter how hard we have fallen we can still stand and go higher. Our economy,health is deeply affected. So I took it upon my self and improvised with my partners in UNICEF to start sensitising our generation about the effects of climate change and the goodness of healthy environment, we recently opened a free chat line called u report which inspires everyone to ask questions about health related issues with immediate response offered to every client. The introduction of school clubs. We have also formed a green club which conducts sensitisation program of reforestation to our environment and I am trying to come up with a project we will reduce the dependency on chak cole by using EMF. | Name BRUCE MWILA,born in ZAMBIA on the COPPERBELT in 1995, parents mr & miss Mwila. born in the family of four,started school in 2002 at Sprinboard and completed in 2013 at Mukuba Secondary School. I become a climate change activist when I and may fellow class mets looked around our environment in which we leaved in,we saw how our beautiful environment was quickly fading away, bringing about pollution, deforestation and health related problems. Being a climate change activist is not easy but if your are determined for make a difference you are not alone that's how we partnered with UNICEF under a name united climate change Zambia were we had to put our passions for our environment to action it wasn't later enough that UNICEF liked the idea and started holding ZCCC in which students were enlightened on how to conserve the environment and wild life in each and every area possible ,this has brought more people on board. We were recently called to lunch a new project called U report which has made a tremendous impact on our nation during the lunch 30 of us where trained but experienced public speaker on how to address large gatherings of people in 2013 . I and Chilufya are now spearheading the sensitisation in Kitwe and working hand in hand with our fellow activists and UNICEF. When are now among the top public speaker in our towns and able to do more | Please vist www.flavafm.co.zm and ask for the climate change program specifically interviews with BRUCE MWILA and CHILUFY SAULT | Name: BRUCE MWILA Born: 07 August 1995 Schools attended Sprinboard Academy School from 2002-2006 Buntungwa Primary School from 2007-2009 Mukuba Secondary School from 2010-2013 Mansa Trade Training Institute 2014-2015 WORKED None School reference MR MUSONDA English teacher no +20697668489 or MISS Magorimbo +260977431583 /+260966947885 | ||||||
78 | 5/6/2015 18:33:54 | Berrocal | Jhonny | kullayki | Perú | peruano | masculino | 24 | español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Es necesario fomentar la politica del fácil entendimiento, cuando se trata de magnos eventos como la Cop 21; se requieren de una extensa carpeta con una serie de tratados que dada su complejidad sectoriza la atención del problema. Es necesario la accion en conjunto para llevar a cabo una reforestación a gran escala, con la participacion de todos los seres humanos. Y a su vez el otorgamiento de responsabilidades sociales que van a converger en un habito, y este habito a su vez se va fomentar como una costumbre que necesariamente tiene que ser dejada como legado para la generaciones del mañana GOOGLE TRANSLATE It is necessary to promote the policy of easy understanding, when it comes to major events like the Cop 21; They will require extensive folder with a series of treaties that given the complexity of the problem sectorizes attention. Joint action is necessary to carry out a large-scale reforestation, with the participation of all human beings. And in turn providing social responsibilities will converge in a habit, and this habit in turn will promote a habit that must necessarily be left as a legacy for the generations of tomorrow | El mundo en la actualidad requiere de la suscripción de un solo documento donde se priorice necesariamente el deber de proteger, conservar y preservar el planeta. Dicho documento debiera consignar el cumplimiento de una sola actividad, la cual debe ser de demostración de método muy simple y al mismo tiempo que pueda ser desarrollado por todos los seres humanos del planeta, sin importar el grado de instrucción, condicion , creencia y /o religión, Es por ello que se requiere la promoción de la siembra de semillas a razón de una semilla por person, esto permitiría de que cada persona adopte un arbol, y así si multiplicamos la cantidad de personas por una semilla cada una, tendríamos recurso arbóreo necesario para mantener la fluidez del intercambio gaseoso y purificar el ambiente con una metodología fácil práctica y efectiva. Facilmente entendible y ejecutable por todas las edades y genero. GOOGLE TRANSLATE The world today requires the signing of a single document which is necessarily prioritize the duty to protect, conserve and preserve the planet. This document should record the compliance of a single activity, which should be very simple method demonstration and while that may be developed by all human beings on the planet, regardless of education level, condition, belief and / or religion, is why the promotion of seeding is required at the rate of one seed per person, this would allow each person to adopt a tree, and so if we multiply the number of people per one seed each, would tree resources necessary to maintain the flow of gas exchange and purify the environment with an easy practical and effective methodology. Easily understandable and enforceable for all ages and gender. | Yo naci en la capital de un país megadiverso, pero por razones de salud radique gran parte de mi vida en una región de sierra de este hermoso pais, rico en flora y fauna, que reúne condiciones de nacion modelo dado la importancia de recursos que poseemos, sin embargo dejamos el aspecto de políticas de conservación para dar lugar a las políticas de extracción, actividad que ha permitido la polución de sedimentos a la atmósfera por la cantidad informal de unidades que producen gases de efecto invernadero, por consiguiente se han deteriorado ecosistemas muy importantes para la degradacion de estos gases nocivos, la i!plantación de proyectos PAMA a su vez a permitido el incremento de unidades extractivas de informalidad característica, conociendo todos estos factores deseo aportar con la experiencia que todo hombre de Sierra conoce, e vivido gran parte de mi vida rodeado de extensos bosques, y variedad de relieves, con el trnar de aves sonoras y animales noctambulos al alba, naci en una familia cuyo principio es el respeto a las flores, las plantas y los arboles, vivo en una casa rústica con mucha riqueza vegetal. Cuya razón social es eactamente en hermoso distyrtito de Huayucachi, un pedacito de cielo con un enorme recurso hídrico y mineral (caolín ypizarrita) Así como una amplia variedad de plantas nativas y meliferas que lamentamente ya no existe en otros lugares del planeta como el mole y el saúco fuentes meliferas muy importantes para el proceso de polinización de las abejas. GOOGLE TRANSLATE I was born in the capital of a diverse country, but for health reasons filed much of my life in a region of mountains of this beautiful country, rich in flora and fauna, which is eligible as a model nation given the importance of resources we have nevertheless leave the aspect of conservation policies to result in policies extraction activity that has allowed sediment pollution to the atmosphere by the informal number of units that produce greenhouse gases, therefore ecosystems have deteriorated very leading to the degradation of these harmful gases, the i! planting PAMA projects in turn allowed the increase of informality feature extraction units, knowing all these factors will contribute to the experience that every man of Sierra known, and lived much of my life surrounded by vast forests, and a variety of reliefs, with trnar of sound birds and night owls at dawn animals, I was born in a family whose principle is respect for flowers, plants and trees, live in a rustic house with many vegetal wealth. Whose corporate name is eactamente in beautiful distyrtito of Huayucachi, a slice of heaven with a huge water and mineral resource (ypizarrita kaolin) and a wide variety of native plants that lamentamente HONEY no longer exists in other parts of the world such as mole and elderberry very important for the pollination process HONEY BEE sources. | Actualmente ostento el grado de bachiller en ingeniería zootenia, poseo un enorme poder deductivo e inductivo, asimismo soy perseverante en la realización de metas mediante el desarrollo sistemático y organizado de procedimientos sencillos e innovadores, he analizado, discutido y elaborado documentos relacionados al enfoque del hombre moderno en relacion con el medio ambiente. Poseo conocimientos de aprendizaje autodidactico, tengo conocimiento de los documentos relacionados a los acuerdos de graduciaon de la temperatura global, como son la Agenda 21, el tratado de Montreal, 3el acuerdo de tokio, y las sedes t acuerdos relacionados al cambio climático como son las cumbres de la amazonia, el foro de la tierra, la cumbre del Rio , entre otros. Este magno evento de la cop 21 deberia culminar con la suscripción de la declaración universal del deber fundamental , dicho documento nos permitirá a la sociedad civil conocer nuestra responsabilidad, y accion única, en bienestar del planeta | https://www.facebook.com/kullayki.peru.7 | ||||||
79 | 5/6/2015 20:47:04 | Vincin | Robert | Emission Trading Association Aust Ltd | Australia | Australian | M | 60+ | English, other to communicate basics | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | My decades of research, papers, actual teaching in field, addressing assemblies on every continent, attending UNCTAD, UNFCCC, UNCCD and, as foreign expert guest PRC since 2005 leading in major CO2e sinks-desert reversal plantings, from 2.600 m to 5 times sea salt levels. All plantings meeting UNFCCC 100 year rules. Such knowledge and hard hands-on expertise will aid the UN to perfect a protocol so that, by 2020 significantly reduction of actual build-up can be lowered as will poverty and desertification! | The planning, teaching, writing, speaking and actual lowering of mass volumes of CO2e into deserts is a result of decades of hands on experience and study! The science based on replicating Nature is not taught in Universities, the global media highlights data “it takes 1,000 years to grow 10-25mm”. We grow soil see the following www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbI8YZmBP8g&feature=youtu.be . Some confirmation “soil can be grown”:- Charles Dickens 1846 "Pictures from Italy” and other noted authors refer to, the bird dropped seed high on the wall grows, and the root system manure becomes soil, (and Bible)! As invited foreign expert guest to PRC since 2005 (see the You Tube, PRC Media Google) subject to President Xi granting land tenure to Farmers we together will lower 8 billion tonnes CO2 by 2020 annually meeting the UNFCCC 100 year rule. Over 9 provinces we will reverse 200 million hectares of desert to grow soil! My lectures and presentations with OHP evidence and actual physical models results in, audience retention 84% 12 months later! I have many decades of hand- on in-field teaching, conference circuit, and lectures we teach Teachers to teach Teachers to teach Farmers Herder Natures’ established protocol, making a significant global reduction of CO2e by 2020 if we began as planned in 2015! The roles need many trained folk! Invited to attend and based on detailed field operations, lectures, papers, I could bring this Nature based science to expedite the SG and President plans to reverse the serious impact of climate change. | As Chairman of Emission Trading Association since 1998.Invited by the then UN USG1996 to join UNCTAD climate change panel over the following 6 yrs I travelled the planet to assemblies including UNFCCC, UNCCD, and detoured to deserts and poverty regions. More recent FAO/UNEP invited me to the 1st Food Security assembly Nairobi and meet with Nations’ impacted by desert /drought. From childhood in an engineering farming family business, taught in the engineering approach to restoring the baseline assets of all living matter, Soil-Water-Vegetation-Atmosphere. The co-authored paper “The Missing Sink” (Condon-Vincin) Tabled by Australian’ Government at COP 6 preserved Kyoto article 3.4. 3.4 covers’ specifically the 2-4% array of vegetation that sequesters CO2e and via root manure grows soil and elements from the atmosphere. (2-3) Vincin has decades of field hands-on reversing deserts, sequestering CO2e as secure soil, soil-carbon, coupled with lecturing, writing on solutions. The Current Prime minister the Hon Tony Abbott has invited Vincin to replicate the PRC CO2e –desert reversal project area in Australia. The paperwork is proceeding. Australia could be a teaching ground for other nations. (A copy of invitation letter can be dispatched | Robert is in the field at present but the following selected clip will give clarity as will PRC media www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbI8YZmBP8g&feature=youtu.be The following is a brief extract from teaching files http://robertvincin2020.wix.com/soil | The file is large permission to dispatch separately please! CO2e reduction, desert reversal, teacher leader but neither I am not a computer dialogue conversion wiz. Google covers much! Please send email address thank you. Best wishes and success hopefully I can assist Robert | http://www.emissiontraders.com.au/ | |||||
80 | 5/7/2015 0:07:30 | Nera-Lauron | Maria Theresa | CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness | Philippines | Filipino | Female | 46 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | To echo the voices of the South (marginalized and women) that is mostly in the sidelines as official process have the tendency to focus its engagement to governments. | As an advocate for climate justice system change and the coordinator of Peoples’ Movement for Climate Change (PMCC), Maria Theresa or Tetet as she is called, strongly believes in the importance of developing the people’s capacity to demand and fight for their democratic rights. PMCC, along with its allied organizations globally, have always stood side by side with peoples’ movements and grassroots organizations in the fight for climate justice and system change. PMCC also supports national and regional struggles of frontline communities against corporate greed and plunder of natural resources. PMCC is witness to many battles won by peasant organizations against big mining companies that causes destruction in their lands, among others. Actively raising awareness on the issues surrounding the climate and empowering the people to engage and fight for their rights is the key in achieving climate justice and holding those responsible for this crisis to account. | Maria Theresa Nera-Lauron is an educator and an activist advocating for people's rights and welfare in various spaces including engaging multilateral institutions and fellow CSOs on various development issues confronting the people and their communities. Tetet has headed several organizations including the CSO Partnership for Development Effectiveness, the Asia Pacific Research Network, and the People's Movement on Climate Change. She held various positions in other organizations which are: •Secretary of the World Association for Christian Communication- Asia Region - a global network of communicators working in media and development concerns. •Board of Director of the World Association for Christian Communication, representing the Asia Region. •Secretariat of the Water for the People Network-Asia, a regional coalition of water advocates and activists whose members are grassroots movements and research organizations in the region. | http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop20/events/2014-12-04-14-48-coast-interest-of-most-vulnerable-countries-and-cop-20 http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop20/events/2014-12-09-11-00-women-s-environment-and-development-organization-achieving-gender-equality-and-women-s-human-rights-on-a-just-equitable-and-healthy-planet | https://www.dropbox.com/s/1b9s28fnvv0soq8/CV%20Maria%20Theresa%20Lauron.doc?dl=0 | http://www.csopartnership.org/ | |||||
81 | 5/7/2015 1:13:00 | kalra | kush | youth for human rights india | india | india | male | 28 | english | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I believe that education can bring big difference to improve our lives. My basic Philosophy of life is to utilize every single second of life constructively for betterment of the society. I considers my biggest achievement till date is that I have maintained my positivity and hope as I believed in Justice Krishna Iyer sayings “Something was dead in all of us, what was dead is hope and positivity”. Since my childhood I wish to bring about a positive change in the society. I don't want my country to be a economic superpower , I want my country to be happy and prosperous country, where man in last will have three meals a day. I am a positive person who believes that Nothing is impossible in this world and can accomplish any task given to me. I can work in a team with team spirit and motivate people by my positive ideas. My Dream for Peace and Prosperity in India: “I shall work for an India in which the poorest shall feel that it is their country, in whose making they have an effective voice, an India in which there shall be no high class and low class of people, an India in which all communities shall live in perfect harmony. There can be no room in such an India for the curse of untouchability or the curse of intoxicating drinks and drugs. Women will enjoy the same rights as men. This is the India of my dreams. | http://www.dnaindia.com/delhi/report-no-bins-at-metro-station-due-to-terror-threat-delhi-hc-not-convinced-2082340 http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/delhi-metro-says-dustbins-at-stations-prevents-terror-attacks-high-court/1/433220.html http://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/hc-notice-to-delhi-metro-on-water-toilet-availability-115050100903_1.html | http://www.limcabookofrecords.in/recordDetail.aspx?rid=632 Most law books in a year Kush Kalra (b Sept 23, 1987) an advocate in Delhi High Court has authored nine books on law in a year between June 2013 and April 2014. Be Your Own Lawyer and Landmark Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights are some of his book titles. While three of them were written solely by him, three were co-authored and on three he was assisted by law students in the research. | Most law books in a year Kush Kalra (b Sept 23, 1987) an advocate in Delhi High Court has authored nine books on law in a year between June 2013 and April 2014. Be Your Own Lawyer and Landmark Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights are some of his book titles. While three of them were written solely by him, three were co-authored and on three he was assisted by law students in the research. http://www.limcabookofrecords.in/recordDetail.aspx?rid=632 | http://www.limcabookofrecords.in/recordDetail.aspx?rid=632 Most law books in a year Kush Kalra (b Sept 23, 1987) an advocate in Delhi High Court has authored nine books on law in a year between June 2013 and April 2014. Be Your Own Lawyer and Landmark Judgments on Intellectual Property Rights are some of his book titles. While three of them were written solely by him, three were co-authored and on three he was assisted by law students in the research. | http://yhrisouthasia.ning.com/ | |||||
82 | 5/7/2015 1:34:04 | Luna Avelar | Carmen Elena | Pensamiento Orgánico | El Salvador | Salvadoreña | Femenino | 24 años | español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Porque quiero dar a conocer el delicado territorio que anhelo salvar de ser destruido, así como también conocer a personas que nos colaboren a que como equipo de jóvenes logremos nuestro sueño de crear una cultura de conservación en esa reserva natural, que a pesar de ser considerada "protegida" no se le da la debida atención ni por parte del estado ni por parte de los habitantes; si no que se aprueba la construcción de grandes centros comerciales ignorando la importancia que tienen los árboles en la vida del ser humano. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Because I want to present the delicate territory that desire to save from being destroyed, as well as meet people who collaborate us that as youth team achieve our dream of creating a culture of conservation in this nature reserve, which despite being considered "protected" is not given due consideration either by the state or by the citizens; if the construction of large shopping centers approves ignoring the importance of trees in human life. | Se está trabajando en la concientización sobre medio ambiente a la niñez y adolescencia del municipio de Antiguo Cuscatlán, centrándonos en el Centro Escolar Caserío La Reforma debido a que es una zona natural protegida que se está destruyendo y es el último sitio verde de esta área, donde se concentran diversidad de especies animales y vegetales que merecen un mayor estudio y cuidado, puesto que los habitantes aledaños a las tierras no tienen la consciencia necesaria para convertirse en guardianes. Se pretende crear una zona de amortiguamiento "buffering zone" para evitar seguir destruyendo los árboles de la Finca El Espino, adicionalmente se dan charlas a otros jóvenes sobre el cuidado del medio ambiente y la necesidad de ser conscientes en el día a día para evitar el cambio climático. GOOGLE TRANSLATE It is working on awareness of environment for children and adolescents in the municipality of Antiguo Cuscatlán, focusing on the hamlet School La Reforma center because it is a protected natural area is being destroyed and is the last green room of this area, where diversity of animals and plants that deserve further study and careful, since the surrounding land to the inhabitants have no consciousness required to become guardians species are concentrated. Is to create a buffer zone "buffering zone" to avoid further destroying trees Finca El Espino, further talks are given to other youth about caring for the environment and the need to be aware in the day to avoid climate change. | Estudiante de Ingeniería en Alimentos, la cual elegí ya que siempre me ha interesado el medio ambiente decidiendo conocer sobre los procesos productivos y aditivos mal utilizados que lleva la comida, así como también tener un mayor criterio al momento de crear productos para el mercado, enfocándome en los productos orgánicos. Soy co fundadora de una organización de jóvenes universitarios llamado Pensamiento Orgánico, cuyo objetivo es crear consciencia sobre la importancia de conservar el medio ambiente, trabajando principalmente con niños y jóvenes; uno de nuestros objetivos es crear un lugar donde los estudiantes universitarios puedan hacer su servicio social en pro del medio ambiente multidisciplinariamente, ya que el cambio climático no discrimina y El Salvador es un país donde no se permite a los estudiantes universitarios trabajar desde sus carreras enfocándose a la conservación ambiental. Siempre me ha gustado el público y no le tengo miedo a los escenarios, de pequeña participé en los eventos culturales del colegio (Instituto Hermanas Somascas), forme parte del grupo de danza folklorica, practique danza Jazz en Humanum Tempore (2005- 2006) y danza contemporánea, la cual continué en el grupo de la Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (2009-2010) , practique Ballet en la Universidad de El Salvador (2012-2014) y participé en el FICCUA (Festival Interuniversitario Centroamericano de la Cultura y el Arte) , fui coordinadora de la Pastoral Juvenil de la Parroquia de los Santos Niños Inocentes y participando en eventos teatrales , participé en el comité del Liturgia y del coro de la Iglesia (2009-2012), fui Reina del certamen de belleza de Antiguo Cuscatlán (diciembre de 2009). Actualmente soy la presidenta de la organización juvenil universitario Pensamiento Orgánico en donde nos dedicamos a la conscientización medioambiental, he participado en congresos, diplomados y discusiones sobre cambio climático y en mi tiempo libre practico Pole Dance en la academia Humanum Tempore. Me apasiona defender el medio ambiente, la vida en todas sus formas. En el ámbito académico siempre me ha gustado destacarme con mis calificaciones y como una de mis expectativas se encuentra hacer un cambio en las mentes de los salvadoreños y sensibilizar a muchos jóvenes en la importancia de proteger a los desplazados y necesitados, principalmente a los animales que se extinguen día a día, causa de nuestro desprecio, indiferencia y desamor a la naturaleza. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Food Engineering student, which I chose because of my interest in the environment deciding know about production processes and additives misused that carries food and also have a major criterion when creating products for the market, focusing in organic products. I am co-founder of a youth organization called Organic Thinking university, which aims to raise awareness about the importance of conserving the environment, working mainly with children and young people; one of our goals is to create a place where college students can do their social service in favor of the environment multidisciplinarily as climate change does not discriminate and El Salvador is a country where college students are not allowed to work from their careers focusing environmental conservation. He has always loved the public and not afraid to the stage, small part in the cultural events of the school (Sisters Somascas Institute), part of the group of folk dance, jazz dance practice in Humanum Tempore (2005- 2006) contemporary dance, which continued in the group of Jose Simeon Canas Central American University (2009-2010), practice Ballet at the University of El Salvador (2012-2014) and participated in the FICCUA (Interuniversity Central American Festival of Culture and Art ), I was coordinator of youth ministry for the Church of the Holy Innocents Children and participating in theatrical events, I participated in the committee of Liturgy and the choir of the Church (2009-2012), I was queen beauty pageant Antiguo Cuscatlán ( December 2009). I am currently the president of the university youth organization Thought Organic where we are dedicated to environmental awareness, I have participated in conferences, courses and discussions on climate change and in my free time I practice Pole Dance Academy in Humanum Tempore. I am passionate about defending the environment, life in all its forms. In academia I have always liked to stand out with my qualifications and as one of my expectations is to make a change in the minds of Salvadoran and sensitize many young people in the importance of protecting the displaced and needy, mainly animals day by day, because of our contempt, indifference and indifference to nature are extinguished. | Lo siento, no tengo un video donde me encuentre hablándole a un público, pero en mi facebook se puede comprobar en los eventos que he participado o sino mediante fotografías que puedo enviarles, tengo un audio de una grabación en una radio también. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7_2rvMsDRi_UWh3XzZPTWdEbjg/view?usp=sharing | https://pensamientoorganico.wordpress.com/category/pensamiento-organico/ | |||||
83 | 5/7/2015 2:00:16 | Qureshi | Kaleem | Al fareed student welfare organization | Pakistan | Pakitsani | Mae | 24 | English and urdu | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | i want to speak at this event just to share the story of my success so that any one can adopt this method to help the needy students of society. i want to make a chain of this welfare work so that this cancan raise the status of the needy students who can not continue their studies due to any financial reason. | The story of my success begins with the initiation of organization named Al fareed students welfare organization. i have started to work for those students who are zealous to continue their studies but not able to meet the financial needs. i have started to work on the Elite class members of the society i have made a Advisory council and include all the representatives of the society including Doctors, advocates, teachers, engineers, labors and other civil servants. All the members of the Advisory council funded monthly to meet the financial requirements of the needy students studying in universities. Now a number of students are studying under this financial aid. | my name is kaleem Qureshi i am the President of AL fareed students welfare organization i fulfil all above eligibility requirements | http://www.alfwt.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/pages/Al-Fareed-Welfare-Trust/401992689982871?sk=info&tab=page_info | |||||||
84 | 5/7/2015 5:34:32 | Brunoni | Edoardo | Association des Eco-Responsables et Associés | France | Italian | Male | 24 | English, French, Italian | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | To Speak. Words for change. Words as a vehicle of ideas. We talk to high school students to share the knowledge we have achieved throughout our education. As university students in multidisciplinary domains, all linked to climate change, we have the desire and the ambition to share our know-how with other students. We believe that the information and knowledge we divulge are fundamental to tackle climate change. We want to participate to the UN conference to share our experience exactly in the same way we do in French high schools. In the end, it is just a matter of creativity. Our goal is to educate and stimulate UN member’s creativity by sharing our experiences of climate change education with ordinary European high school students. We deem our contribution to the UN conference of crucial importance because climate change will affect our generation as well as that of the teenagers we are trying to mobilise. I want to talk as a young man because I believe that the incredible creativity of the human race, which is the unique solution to climate change, lies in the very genuine minds of young students. | Educated to educate. That’s the key idea of the Ambassadors of the 21st COP. We are a really climate change educational team. We have been trained to share the fundamental issues concerning global warming across high schools in the Pays de la Loire region, France. Our mission is to educate, share and pass on experiences and ideas received from our younger colleagues at the time of the 21st UN Conference of Parties in Paris 2015. The cornerstones of our program are education for prevention and knowledge sharing, especially to create awareness in future generations about climate change issues. High school boys and girls are informed, stimulated and challenged to produce creative solutions to real life issues. This is indeed environmental education, whereby knowledge sharing across common projects allows students to be part of the change, and bring direct contribution by suggesting solutions to the struggle against global warming. Being part of the 21st COP means to believe in our problem solving skills. As an ambassador of the 21st COP I believe in this capacity and I make any efforts in my power to make younger students to believe in this capacity. | My role in AERA is equal to that of other members. I am part of the board, and in our vision each voice has the same value. I am a European student from Italy. Last summer I applied for a European program called “ENJOY”( Environmental job opportunities for youth). Thanks to ENJOY EU program, I carried out two internships during the summer 2014 in two law firms in Bordeaux, France. This experience made me realise that my future lies in the environmental field. At the end of the summer I finally started a Master in environmental law and sustainable development in the same country which offered me the opportunity to start my environmental and climate change experience: France. Well, when one is on the right path, everything happens so fast!. After two months I started the COP ambassador experience while at the same time I met many colleagues and friends who shared my vision. I started to participate to environmental associations actions, many of which were not linked to university. I am following this path, firmly convinced that this is my future and the most important objective and passion of my life. I believe I am ready to share my knowledge in environmental law and climate change especially thanks to my activity and trainings as ambassador of the 21st COP. Moreover, my career as a law student gave me the possibility to improve my public speaking skills, which I have tested last April in front of one thousand people at the climate change day, in Nantes, France. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Y-y1Twh60&feature=youtu.be | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_b5tZ_EEDS3OFhUQU5hanp1VWs/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
85 | 5/7/2015 8:29:47 | Amer | Abdulrahman | Ace team (ACE Al-Azhar Club for English) | Egypt | Egyptian | Male | 21 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I will represent the Egyptian society and culture. I will demonstrate the importance of youth work. In addition, I will share a solid representation of the civil society in Egypt, as well cultivate opportunities, potential projects and partnerships within the Egyptian community more importantly; the youth to improve their awareness regarding the development process. Also, I will cultivate new student activities, especially with my team in College. | I am self-motivated person, I take great pride in achieving my own personal goals and the goals set for me by my peers both in a professional and academic aspect. I am a co-founder and vice president of the ACE team (ACE Al-Azhar Club for English), one of extracurricular student activities at Al-Azhar University, which is dedicated to cultivating the study of the English language within the university itself. I have been studying English for two years. I have applied for many Universities to study the English language, but I was, unfortunately, rejected as a result of my high school grades. I learned that I must improve my skills in order to achieve my dreams of success, my strong will and determination enabled me to improve my English, amongst other skills including leadership, management capabilities & logic. I was during this time that I became an English instructor at the Nubian foundation another NGO I am proud to be associated with. After achieving within the foundation I discovered that I had the charisma and interpersonal skills to enable me to attain my goals and continue down the long path of volunteer work. | ACE Team, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Activity: Ace team (ACE Al-Azhar Club for English) that targeting the English language, to improve students and we are helping youth to discover their skills and goals. Role: Co-founder and vice president of Ace team. GMS team , high school student , Cairo , Egypt. GMS team ,( get more skills )aims to help young youth to helping them to gain more skills and to improve their personality. Role: vice president . Resala Charity Organization, 6 of October city, Egypt. Activities: Delivering, and distributing food and clothes to the poor. Traveling to poor villages to provide them with aids. Role: volunteer | https://www.facebook.com/Amership9/videos/t.100001716881707/10204164161600495/?type=2&theater | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzF3M-MirLdPYXNVNklUeHZiOWs&authuser=0 | ||||||
86 | 5/7/2015 14:41:28 | Shah | Dharmik | MART | India | Indian | Male | 25 | English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The UN General Assembly Session on Climate Change 2015 would allow me to convene my personal story to the global thought leaders and show them a path on creating the next generation of leaders who share a vision for the better planet through one of the most unique framework that I have created – ‘Sustainable Business Models’. This model believes that ‘Businesses would be the future driver for Sustainability’. Apart from this, having travelled more than 480 districts (approximately > 10,000 villages in India), I would be glad to share the stories from grassroots and the stories of the humans sitting at the last miles and how they inspired me on my journey towards the creation of a more sustainable world. This in turn would also make a case for the world leaders as to how the ‘Bottom of Pyramid Segments’ in developing nations would drive the climate change and sustainability agenda of the future and what am I doing to aid the same. Also, I have been personally inspired by Malala Yousafzai’s speech at the UN and its aftermath on communities around me–it gives me a greater impetus to leverage ‘the gift of gab’ that I possess to convey the ideas to mitigate climate change to the world leaders. Also, on a lighter note, it has been a dream since childhood to officially get invited and address a UN Assembly. | India is predicted to surpass China as the world’s largest country by 2025, with a large proportion of those in the working age category. Recently the government also announced for the promotion of entrepreneurship in the country, which would lead to the creation of a lot of MSME’s in the country. We see a trend that majority of the white collared corporate jobs, which make key decision in the companies in India go to students in the business schools. So, we at MART thought why not Sow the seeds of Sustainability amongst these young people, empower them to cultivate skills to develop a business case and watch them & their companies grow sustainable. There.There are approximately 3000 B-Schools in India approximately 300,000 students who would graduate from them every year. And this is where were laid the first footsteps of our journey towards Sustainability and Climate Change. We decided to scan the ecosystem of such courses available across the globe. But, to our surprise – it was a big No. With global thought leaders and multiple stakeholders, we developed an exciting pedagogy, to encourage young people to be on their toes. We, then started to generate an interest amongst faculty members to take an interest in this subject, as they would be the change-makers. 40 B-Schools sent their faculty members & to add a cherry on the cake, Mr. Bruno Sarda of Dell offered to deliver a webinar. (It was 3 am in the US, when 17:00 hrs in India – so much of passion). I am just imagining, when the movement scales up, to give rise to an environmental friendly and a conscious economy. | "Ideas shape the course of history." said, John Maynard Keynes. Dharmik has been instrumental and in the founding committee of the ‘Sustainable Business Models (SBM) Forum, a joint initiative of MART and GIZ. He has provided his thought leadership in creating a comprehensive framework on ‘Sustainable Business Models’ – which is a path breaking model to shift the paradigm from ‘Sustainability driving businesses’ to ‘Businesses driving Sustainability’ and becoming more responsible – they start creating only sustainable products, processes and visions – for the future world. At this young age of 25, he developed a 40 hour course module for future leaders of sustainability studying in Business Schools and has trained 45 Senior Professors from 24 prominent Business Schools in India to create future champions of Sustainability. He is also driving the sustainability movement by encouraging professors to document exceptional sustainability related Business models from developing countries. Having travelled more than 480 districts, he is the voice of grassroots / BoP segments from India who have significant enough to contribute to the Sustainability Movement. Apart from this, Dharmik was 1 of the 17 International Climate Champions selected by the British Council and TERI where he started ‘The Green Homemakers’ Movement, recognizing women to be the most instrumental change-makers to mitigate climate change. Also, he has been selected as 1 of the 450 ‘Climate Reality Leaders’ by Vice President and Nobel Prize Winner Al Gore and has been performing acts of leadership to encourage climate change amongst the communities at grassroots. He is also a ‘Climate Co-lab Catalyst’ at ‘MIT Climate Co-Lab’ at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s ‘ MIT Centre for Collective Intelligence’ wherein he aids in Proposal Development to convert ideas into action. It would be a privilege for him to fly to New York, to his first international trip to the UN to share his ideas and make the voice of the grassroots heard to the global leaders | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1984DVNZ9AhVG8xWl9EcGtwTkU/view?usp=sharing | http://martrural.com/ | ||||||
87 | 5/7/2015 18:32:05 | Onyang | Ronald | Africans Focused on Global Warming and Development-AFOGWAD Uganda | Uganda | Ugandan | Male | 22 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like to speak at this event because I have been looking and waiting for such a function like this that would allow me to let the responsible actors, authorities and the whole world get to know directly why there is need for for a serious action now towards climate change and global warming mitigation. This would base on the analysis that I have been doing about African local climate change with reference to its effects on Uganda's communities. I would like to tell the world what provoked me to initiate an organisation, AFOGWAD that aids the community in understanding more about climate change. And I would want to use this opportunity to speak to my fellow young people world wide to take a lead in fighting for a better climate change mitigation strategies as we can only protect our better tomorrow's climate from today. | Well, I have founded an NGO called "Africans Focused on Global Warming and Development-(AFOGWAD Uganda)/www.afogwad.weebly.com" which focuses on the advocacy to mitigating the causes and effects of climate change through adaptations to a greener, healthy and a sustainable approaches to a holistic community development. AFOGWAD is based in Lira, Northern part of Uganda. In our advocacy we look at adaptation to climate smart agri-businesses, business environmental friendly activities, forestry, renewable sources of energy and policies that drive towards climate change mitigation. AFOGWAD believes that for there to exist a sustainable climate change adaptations, then the community understanding of the climate change becomes the major priority. This is because majority of the people are still ignorant about the causes of climate change. We strongly believe that if the communities are to understand very well all about climate change, then they themselves will become ambassadors of a sustainable transformational climate change mitigation strategies. | 1. The nominee's role in AFOGWAD: Ronald Onyang is the founder and the director of AFOGWAD. His active role as the director has made this organisation to take the ground in the community very fast. This is because he is a hard working young man who always want to see that community problems are addressed and even however great the problems may seem to be. His leadership through some of the AFOGWAD's projects has created the community's understanding of some of the needs why we should conserve and plant more trees. This is through endeavoring always to go with his team himself to the ground in the community and also with the aid of social medias. I see a brighter future of this organisation in addressing more challenging community problems with the help of the leadership of this potential dynamic young man. 2. Ronald Onyang meets all the criteria outlined above in the following ways: First he is the director of AFOGWAD himself who is authorized by the AFOGWAD's constitution to attend all the meetings and conferences on behalf of the organization and so he will speak at the conference with the authorization from AFOGWAD Uganda. Also Ronald Onyang is the founder of this organisation of which its main objectives rest on climate change and global warming mitigation and with so many projects he led on climate change through AFOGWAD, I strongly recommend that he has much more to share in this conference as it's also his field of advocacy. Ronald Onyang is a young man who knows how to treat and share with everyone in the community and I strongly believe he is going to be liked by all categories of stake holders in this conference. And also he is able to acquire a visa to New York and be available in New York within these period of the conference. 3. Ronald Onyang is a great public speaker who is comfortable and conversant with all kinds of public speaking techniques. He has mediated so many community dialogues, he has been the Guild Secretary General in Lira University College for two consecutive terms, he is very proficient in English language and all in all, he is experienced in public speaking. I strongly believe that all the audience in the conference will enjoy his speech and message he will deliver. Thank you | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | http://afogwad.weebly.com/ | |||||
88 | 5/8/2015 0:21:25 | Owino | Eunice | County Government of Homa Bay | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | 38 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I will be delighted if I am chosen to speak in this event. The forum will create a perfect opportunity for me to articulate my passion for the campaigns have been carrying out on greening our environment. As an activist I want to tell the world, we are concern about the future in respect to the environmental depletion and degradation. This forum will be a platform to air the plea of the African people, to raise the struggle we are going through in mitigating on the impact of poverty on natural capital and the local solutions/models we have come with to address the issue and promote green economy | OPERATION NYANGILE OUT INITIATIVE “Nyangile” is a Luo word for a kerosene lamp commonly used for lighting in most parts of Kenya. We have initiated a five year massive campaign to eradicate kerosene lanterns and the traditional three stone firewood cooking techniques in the County Government of Homa Bay Kenya. The campaign has been informed by very saddening statistics: the county institutions electricity connectivity is at 3.3%, Homa Bay County leads in use of kerosene 94.6% as source of energy (Min Devolution Report:2015), over 60,000 fishermen catching small fish at using kerosene lamps every night. The forest cover of the county is less than 0.3% (Forester Report 2015) The activities involved during the period of campaign include: the launch of the campaign, energy field days, road shows and interactive radio talk shows. We have also produced Information, Education and Communication (IEC) materials such as t-shirts, caps, lesos, fliers , posters, burners on this. The initiative involves building capacity of youth and women to work as Clean Energy Ambassadors (CEA’s) and Clean Energy Entrepreneurs. This has been done by the help of partners such as GiZ and World Vision. Here the technicians are taught through their groups to make local energy saving cook stoves/jikos which uses less firewood. For household solar lanterns the groups are buying them in merry-go–round. This initiative is progressively gaining support across the county: many people are now adopting to new technologies for clean affordable energy for lighting and cooking. | BIO for EUNICE OWINO Eunice is currently the County Chief Officer in charge of Energy and Natural Resources Homa Bay County Kenya. Her background is sociology with a Masters of Art in Sociology (Community Development). In addition to this, she has been trained on a three week ‘Technical Seminar ‘on renewable energy in Munich German. Also, she received a full fellowship award from UNITAR on “Introduction to a Green Economy: Concepts and Applications” which she is undertaking. In her capacity as the in charge of energy in the county she has pushed for programs and projects that are geared towards green economy. For instant she is the brain child of a five year campaign dubbed OPERATION NYANGILE OUT! ‘Nyangile means a local kerosene lamp commonly used by many people for lighting. The campaign has seen many people adopting clean energy for lighting and cooking like solar and improved energy saving jikos. During the launch of the campaign Eunice carried out a lot of talk show in local FM media and in the field in functions like ‘Energy Field Days’ and ‘Energy Expo Days’ with an aim of sensitizing the community members on the negative effects of the kerosene lamp both health-wise and financially. For eight years now, Eunice has been an active member of Peoples Health Movement (PHM) and a secretary of the movement in Kenya. The movement has been pushing for the health rights of all the citizens in Kenya. Eunice is eloquent is public speaking, her articulation of issues are commendable she exhibits the confidence and the master of content that she pursues. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYGw6dLAdGM | http://homabay-county.org/ | ||||||
89 | 5/8/2015 0:31:17 | Bravo Noguera | Nora | Movimiento ambientalista guarda barranco | Nicaragua | Nicaraguense | femenino | 20 | Español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Me encantaría ser participe de este gran e importante evento ya que soy parte de los jóvenes ambientalistas de Nicaragua del partido de izquierda . hemos reforestado muchas áreas de nuestro hermoso país .y también hemos ayudado a reforestar y cuidar de uno de los pulmones del mundo que es wosawas .esperamos q sea aceptada para desarrollar muchas problemáticas en la cual podemos ayudar al mundo a nuestro mundo para tener una vida y un aire puro y sano para nuestra vida y nuestro mundo GOOGLE TRANSLATE I would love to be part of this great and important event since I am part of young environmentalists Nicaragua's leftist party. We have replanted many areas of our beautiful country. and we have also helped to reforest and take care of one of the lungs of the world that is wosawas. We hope that will be accepted to develop many issues in which we can help the world to our world to have a life and clean air and healthy for our lives and our world | nuestra organización a reforestado todo nuestro país ...hemos hecho campañas , jornadas de limpieza ,hemos buscado voluntarios para el cuido constante de nuestros bosques maravillosos... y nos encantaria q nos brindaran la oportunidad de participar en este evento. GOOGLE TRANSLATE reforested our organization around our country ... we have made campaigns, cleanups, volunteers have searched for the constant care of our beautiful forests ... and we would love to provide us with the opportunity to participate in this event. | El movimiento ambienta lista guarda barranco es un movimiento q se caracteriza por movilizar a jóvenes con entusiasmo e idealismos de cambiar el maltrato hacia nuestro planeta . mi cargo es sobre proponer nuevas ideas reunirme con los cordinadores de distritos y hacer ideas nuevas GOOGLE TRANSLATE The list keeps moving acclimates ravine is a movement characterized by mobilizing young people with enthusiasm and idealism to change the mistreatment of our planet. my job is to propose new ideas to meet with the coordinators of districts and make new ideas | name Nora ochoa identificación 001-011194-0044D soltera edad 20 años ,curso 4to año de la carrera de relaciones internacionales y comercio exterior | |||||||
90 | 5/8/2015 6:48:28 | Helal | Muhammad | Dhaka University | Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | Male | 29 | Bangla, English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As a student of International Relations I hold a dream in my heart to work in UNO in my life any way from the inception of my studies.This is the occasion of that organization where I want to work. I think this is the chance to full fill my dream. So I want to speak at this event. | I want to work for environment. I know tree can play role for climate action. I made nursery in my home from here I distribute the tree to my my relatives or other free of charge. I plant tree where I get chance. Once I would work in a high school on behalf of Bangladesh Education Ministry I planted some trees there as environmental protection. | ACADEMIC BACKGROUND: 2013 M. Phil (Continuing) Department of International Relations University of Dhaka 2008 M.A.2008 Result: 2nd Class 3rd Position (58%) Department of International Relations Jahangirnagar University 2007 B.A. (Hon’s) 2007 Result: 2nd Class (55%) Department of International Relations Jahangirnagar University 2002 H.S.C. Humanities Group Result: 1st Division (62%) 2000 S.S.C. Humanities Group Result: 1st Division (73%) WORKING EXPERIENCES: Working as English Resource Teacher (Strategic Teacher’s Trainer) at Secondary Education Quality Access & Enhancement Project-SEQAEP, Ministry of Education, funded by WB. Working as Director for BRIDGE Foundation in It for Differently Able Project(Disable). Worked as Writer for M Abdullah & Sons. -as Observer’s Controller in 10th & Supervisor in 9th Parliamentary Election of Bangladesh with Election Working Group(EWG). -as Training Coordinator at LEEDO.-as Admin & Public Relations Officer at Burj Group. -as JU Reporter for the Daily Evevening News. Duties & Responsibilities: Conducting English Creative Class at Secondary level in view to train up the subject teacher strategically for quality education & to stop school going student from drop out as well as to increase passing level. Name of the Training Courses: • 15 Days Boot Camp on Journalism Training by CSE, New Delhi in India. • Secondary Education Quality Enhancement Project by Ministry of Education, Bangladesh & the World Bank at NAEM in Dhaka. • Journalism on Violence Against Women & Children by Women & Children Communication Society & Ministry of Women & Children Affairs in Dhaka. Seminar & Symposium: • Attended the Third Annual Human Rights Study Session in Bangladesh from 26th Oct’13 to 7th Nov’13 in Dhaka arranged by University of Dhaka, Centre for Human Rights Studies, Dhaka & Asian Institute of Human Rights, Thailand. • Attended one day seminar on Rain Water Harvesting & Waste Management arranged by Center for science & Environment, India & Bangladesh Institute of Planners in Dhaka. • Attended one day seminar on Violence Against Women arranged by an NGO, Step Towards in Dhaka. | N/A | N/A | www.du.ac.bd/ | |||||
91 | 5/8/2015 10:39:21 | Sheila | Watson | FIA Foundation / Global Fuel Economy Initiative | UK | British | Female | 49 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to showcase the important work that GFEI is doing in tackling Climate Change by reducing carbon emissions through improved fuel economy in new passenger vehicles, and to inspire others to make a change too. GFEI is an excellent example of how to mobilise political action and stakeholders for ambitious, but very practical action to mitigate climate change. Such action has real benefits in terms of resource savings in the shorter term and climate benefits. GFEI works with a network of civil society organisations and expert organisations across the world. Our approach is to combine in-country policy support with global analysis and advocacy. GFEI’s ‘Cleaner, More Efficient Vehicles’ Toolkit provides guidance, coupled with case studies to support policymakers in designing effective policy interventions to promote fuel economy. This approach has proved to be very successful in engaging governments and would be an excellent example to inspire action. GFEI is recognised as an ‘Accelerator’ project for transport energy efficiency by Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL). It was also explicitly referred to by the G20 in their 2014 Communiqué. The goal of the GFEI is to have all countries in the world adopt a clean and efficient vehicles policy. There are many countries that are interested to work with the GFEI to develop these policies – for environment and cost savings reasons. Speaking at this event would raise the profile of our work, and support our aim to double the number of countries that we are currently working in. | Improved fuel economy is a win-win, reducing harmful emissions and saving money on fuel. The Global Fuel Economy Initiative (GFEI) supports improved fuel efficiency in passenger vehicles. Road transport makes up around 17% of global emissions of carbon dioxide, and so improved fuel economy has the potential to massively reduce climate change impacts. The global vehicle fleet is set to increase from around 1 billion now to up to 3 billion by 2050, with over 80% of that increase in the developing world. While most developed countries have auto fuel efficiency policies in place, very few emerging economies have formally adopted such standards. The GFEI partnership focuses on practical policy-development activities. It was established in 2009 with pilot initiatives in Chile, Indonesia, Ethiopia and Kenya, and currently works in around 40 countries. The GFEI supports countries to build capacity and to develop and implement fuel economy policies. Measures successfully deployed include import regulation (regulating import of old vehicles), emissions standards, fiscal measures, standardized labelling indicating efficiency of cars, and removal of the oldest vehicles. This gives us real experiences to draw on and share with other attendees at the summit, in order to inspire them to make the change which they want to see in their own countries. For example, with the help of GFEI partners, a new fuel economy label has been adopted in Chile, which is the first of its kind in Latin America and the Caribbean region. | Sheila Watson is Director of Environment and Research at the FIA Foundation, a UK-based Charity which is committed to promoting safe sustainable mobility across the world (www.fiafoundation.org). She is also Executive Secretary to the Global Fuel Economy Initiative, which seeks to support the development of fuel economy policies across the world (www.globalfueleconomy.org). An economist, with many years’ experience as an advisor and consultant, her most recent role was as Senior Special Adviser to the UK Labour government at the Department for Trade and Industry, The Privy Council, the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and the Foreign Office. During the 10 years she spent at the heart of the UK government, she specialised in a range of environmental and resource protection issues from sustainable farming and food production to international climate security. Her former roles include Deputy Director of the Centre for Local Economic Strategies, and Policy Researcher at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Sheila has an Honours Degree from the University of Oxford, and an MSc in Economics from Birkbeck College, London. Sheila is an experienced and confident public speaker, and has communicated key messages about climate action and transport energy efficiency extensively to diverse groups. She has led the work of the GFEI since its inception,, building the profile of its work as the world’s leading fuel efficiency initiative. She engages constructively with a range of international stakeholders, including through her role as Executive Secretary of the GFEI, but also by contributing to other global processes, such as the Stakeholder Committee for the UN General Assembly interactive hearings for the Post-2015 Development Agenda. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syjRSd-ZkuQ Sheila is an excellent communicator and is experienced in explaining climate policy in simple English | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3Xa3smzytnqVmhJMVdLVnZuN2c&authuser=0 | http://www.fiafoundation.org/ | |||||
92 | 5/8/2015 16:39:30 | khan | sara | u.e.t. lahore,human rights foundationhttps://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6IwTYIo8MisWTVhX21IM1M2U28/view?usp=sharing | pakistan | pakistani | female | 31 | english | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The day i read about this opportuntiy ,since than i have been extremely excited as environment /education and speaking is something i have been reallhy passionate about.A part from environmental projetcs, my goal is to give my share back to academia and the deprived women and children of my country by transmitting the awareness to help the children come into the confident possession of their innate talent, improve the skills needed for success and establish values that will allow them to act with thoughtfulness and humanity.I have organized several events and have strong ccommand on engkish and speaking and presentation has been my passion since my school,being a girl and belonging to conservative traditions,it was really difficult for me to develop these speaking skills,this platform would be an amazing opportuntiy for my self confidence as well as professional development,i want to speak at this event as such opportunties are not available in Pakistan and to br part of such prestigious platform would be quite an opportunity for me,In pursuing my mission,This event would be a platform where i would mainly focus on the topic and i would love to bring in the suggestions to bring the sustainability and the present scenario and role of developing countries like Pakistan in bringing the change.If i get this chance i would try to make the most out of it.I am so looking forward to be part of it,and hoping to hear a positive reply. | women are the foundation of every society, yet for many women in the world’s poor regions, life is extraordinarily difficult. Education can build the courage and resourcefulness of women to help them realize their potential and improve the conditions of their families and communities.Being a girl from such region and lack of opportunities,i struggled very hard and exceled in my studies as well as practical work.Environment /education has been my area of interest since childhood.I have been working on several projects that i would love to share in detail,and mainly includes water purification and provision of clean drininking water in rural areas near the city i live in,i went to this village near lahore where not even clean drinking water was available for the people due to which diseases like cholera and typhoid were rapidly increasing,i raised funds for the organization and went there with my team for the installation of water coolers and to make this accessible to them i kept the track later and the no of diease were visibly reduced.My mission also included that Pakistani children and women in particular have the awareness and opportunity to get benefit from education that improves the standards of their lives and advances their contributions to civic life, economic development and social progress of the country. The education provided in our country must meet the standards of quality commensurate with the benefits it promises and must be truly accessible to the children in all diversity. "go green" is another succesful project of mine. | Ms sara khan has done her masters and currently involved in m.phil research,she has been an exceelent student throughout her acdemic years,she possess strong comminication skills and has a very friendly and cooperative attitude,she has been an asset to the organization,she has been working as project development officer and carried out many projects on economic develoment and environement protection targetting rural areas near lahore.She is also teaching thus possess strong speaking skills and have been presenting at various forums,she will be available on the dates of the event,and possess valid U.S visa ,so it will be easy for her to travel.Rest i strongly recommend her for this forum as she has an enthusiastic and energetic personality alongwith stron communication skills. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6IwTYIo8MisMGF1V2ZZc21YSlU/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6IwTYIo8MisWTVhX21IM1M2U28/view?usp=sharing | http://www.uet.edu.pk/ | |||||
93 | 5/8/2015 18:09:33 | Olorundami | Tokunbo | University of Calabar Climate Change Committee | Nigeria | Nigerian | Male | 37 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | The willingness of residents to use bicycle for intra city transportation in Calabar, Nigeria as a model for other Nigerian Cities. To identify the most important factors for the promotion of cycling and walking as climate change mitigation. | At the University of Calabar Climate change committee, we take initiatives to encourage alternative lifestyle that is sustainable and less inflicting on the climate. We are looking at Integrating adaptation and mitigation strategies in urban areas. Our goal is to find a way to make Climate change mitigation and adaptation viable in areas of high priority action in the urban context. Walking and cycling are viable alternatives to many short car journeys in cities. This is one policy that is been promoted and encouraged in the developed countries and a few developing countries. Many studies have revealed the multi-dimensional advantages of walking and cycling as healthy and pollution free. Our efforts examined the impact of climate change including, flooding and heat waves on travel behaviour. About 150 rating surveys were randomly administered to residents across all income and employment groups in the study area. About 68.6% of participants in the survey indicated flood events as the most life threatening impacts of climate change against the choice of cycling and walking, for urban transport. In order to validate this perception, a digital elevation model of the city was developed to identify most vulnerable parts of the city and possible level of satisfaction potential cyclists and pedestrians would derive from cycling in the city. Twelve problems of bicycle transportation were presented and participants rated them using a six-point scale 1-6, corresponding to highly unwilling to highly willing to ride or walk. adaptation. One of our ongoing Projects. | Tokunbo Olorundami is a field research supervisor and a lecturer and Student mentor/tutor. His passion for reducing the climate change mitigation has seen him lead many initiatives including tree planting in Nairobi, Kenya. Tokunbo is a graduate of Geography and Regional Planning and also holds a Masters degree in Geographic Information Science from the University of Nottingham, UK. He is passionate about regional integration for climate change action amongst young people in Africa and has worked with groups in the UK, Ghana, Kenya, and Nigeria | www.unical.edu.ng/ | |||||||
94 | 5/8/2015 20:35:43 | MANNEH | MUSA | AGAST | TURKEY | GAMBIA | MALE | 21 | ENGLISH AND TURKISH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The reason why i want to speak at this event cannot be overemphasized.I have realized that with this age of mine,i will stand to be one of the young inspirational leaders which could also be a way of developing me further. If i have the chance to speak to an important body like the UN,I have the feeling that my move as a climate change activist will be well modified as it will add value to my work.Also being a speaker at that wonderful gathering will make me get known to different countries and more importantly my country which will be a turning point for the other youth because they will also develop the zeal and interest of making the same move i am doing .I have actually realized that as a medical student,i stand at a better chance of addressing climactic change related issues because the effects of climate change has strong connection to the area of medicine like development of sunburns and development of cancer from the ultraviolet rays of the sun due to the excessive exposure of sunlight radiation coming to the earth because the ozone layer is depleting steadily.The area of developing serious diseases like malaria because the water level in the seas and oceans are increasing which provides a breeding ground for more mosquitoes.Also the development of cholera and diarrhea because the water is being polluted by the mixing of the carbon dioxide and water forming an acidic medium of water that could be harmful to both marine organism and larger animals on the food chain like mammals . | I am a boy of 21 years old who is very much interested in enlightening the youth of my country and the world about environmental issues especially the area of climate change and have always been addressing the current climatic effects and the future effects that are likely to be attained. I also try to give suggestion at length that could be taken in order to prevent ourselves from the future consequences of climate change.In this process,i use the media as one of my fundamental tools of creating awareness as the climate change calls for an urgent action to be taken place in order to avoid loosing our own planet.I have started writing to newspapers,uploading videos on You Tube and extending the message on Facebook. I have noticed that people are really commending me for the work i am doing which makes me feel better and satisfied because i am recognizing that the little effort i am doing for humanity is always being appreciated.I have always be interested in issues relating to environmental safety for that is the reason why i have been involving in tree planting exercise during my stay in my country and also took part in the monthly cleanliness of our environment locally called the "set setal" meaning cleaning.I want to continue my action because as a future doctor,i should be concerned with human health and the way to secure it.Therefore ,involving in a climatic activity means i am helping my field of study and making one of their goals attainable. | My name is Musa Manneh, i was born on the 18th July 1994 at Tallinding in the Gambia.I started my primary education in 2001 at Latrikunda Primary School and completed in 2007.Then i proceeded to Keneba Upper Basic School in 2007 and completed in 2010 after writting to West African Examination Council (WAEC) and i came out first from my school. This earned me an admission to Nusrat Senior Secondary School from 2010 and completed in 2013.I studies science as my course of study and i love all my science subjects especially Mathematics and Physics.I got A grade in Mathematics,Chemistry,Science,Agriculural Science and Geography.I got B grade in Biology,Physics and islamic studies and C grade in English Language in West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination(WASSCE).After completing my senior secondary school, i was unfortunate to join a university or get a scholarship from my government and my parents could not afford to provide the cost of university fees ,for this reason my education was interrupted from May 2013 to September 2014. I was then adviced by my father to go and have some teaching experience because i am very excellent in Mathematics and Physics and was so comfortable to teach even other areas of science like Biology and Chemistry . I taught in Bansang Senior Secondary School from the 30th of October 2013 to the 18th of July 2014.I was well commended for bringing several positive changes in that school despite my young age .In September 2014, i got a fully funded scholarship for seven years to study medicine by the Turkish government .I want to become a Doctor and be a specialist of heart surgery. Currently i am studying at Pamukkale University in Denizli.I have been involving in social and extracurriculum activities and started taking up leadership positions and challenges right from my upper basic school where i joined The Gambia Red Cross Society and the Gambia Scout Association.I became a troop leader in my senior secondary school.I also served as the President of Associated Schools Project Network of UNESCO Associated Schools in the Gambia as my senior secondary school representitive.I am a member of Association of Gambian Students in Turkey (AGAST).I was also a member of Science and Maths Club of my senior secondary school and many other clubs or associations where i have earned certificates .I have got some leadership skills and qualities after attending several leadership trainings.My hobbies are reading,writing,travelling,listening to news,update of social and global issues,leadership,group work and researches. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-XDACMCEkI https://www.facebook.com/musa.manneh.90/posts/624241094378753 https://www.facebook.com/musa.manneh.90/posts/621265798009616?pnref=story | |||||||
95 | 5/8/2015 20:37:12 | Avril | TRAORE Aboubacar | AGRHYMET | GUINEA-CONAKRY | GUINEENNE | HOMME | 26 ANS | français | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | je vais parlé en français | les changements climatiques sont tous changement attribuables directement et indirectement par l'activités humine et s'ajoutent la variabilité atmospherique naturelle(selon ccnucc) | je suis ingenieur agronome de profession,expert en changement climatique en situationdu mémoire,mon organisme est régional il couvre toutes la zone CEDEAO/CILSS qui evolu dans le domaine du changement climatique,seurité alimentaire,gestion durable des terres,et protection durable des cultures et l'environnementdns le sahel et l'afrique de l'ouest | GUINEE | rien | http://www.agrhymet.ne/eng/ | |||||
96 | 5/9/2015 3:39:10 | Elmagraby | Norah | Naqaa Sustainability Solutions | Saudi Arabia | Palestinian | Female | 26 | Arabic and English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I believe that the sustainability efforts taking place in the Middle East region is highly underrepresented in international climate talks. Moreover, my participating in this event will help in shedding the light on the great efforts by minority groups are doing in the Middle East. Being a non-Saudi woman, working in a male dominated field in Saudi Arabia, where sustainability is not a common practice nor are social enterprises are one of the few challenges we had to overcome. | Co-founded Naqaa Sustainability Solutions a social enterprise formed in 2008 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by three female entrepreneurs- dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues and sustainability in the Middle East. Our name is derived from the Arabic word Naqaa, which means “Purity”/”Integrity”- we value the universal right of strong, healthy communities with honest and fair approaches to social advancement. We are considered the first local organization promoting Sustainability in Saudi Arabia. We assist and advise companies in the Middle East with designing, implementing and measuring their sustainability performance. We share our clients’ aspirations, work to understand their reality, and align our social and environmental incentives with their objectives to create lasting competitive advantage. In addition, we address our clients’ most pressing institutional challenges and community-focused goals to institute positive changes to company practices. We work with our clients to design, plan, and implement innovative sustainable models and target goals. Finally, we take part in community engagement campaigns, deliver workshops and organize online awareness campaigns. Since our inception as one of the leading social enterprises in the Kingdom, Naqaa has gone on to receive recognition internationally as a leading youth-led venture that is committed to bringing the discussion about responsible environmental practices to the table in a region where sustainable stewardship is poorly understood. | Norah earned her MSc in Sustainability Management at Columbia University in New York City. Her research focused on environmental sustainability with a special focus on the Middle East. Norah has a keen interest in sustainable development, environmental protection, women’s empowerment and social activism. She was born and raised in Saudi Arabia and gained her BS degree from Dar Al-Hekma College in Heath Science in 2010. In 2009, she won First Place at the US-Saudi Women's Forum on Social Entrepreneurship Summer training course at Babson College. Her participation inspired her to start her own social venture- Naqaa Sustainability Solutions. Naqaa Sustainability Solutions is the first sustainability service provider in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Norah is highly experienced in building strategic relationships and networks among youth groups. She also has broad experience in events and symposium management. For example, she has planed and carried out conferences for the Jeddah chamber of commerce, ARAMCO Holdings, and the King Abdallah University of Science and Technology. Furthermore, Norah conducted multiple research papers tackling environmental issues and sustainable development and presented two of them at the 17th Annual International Sustainable Development Research Symposium held at Columbia University in New York City in 2011. Moreover, she was a member of a joint research project between Dar Al-Hekmah College, the University of California at Berkeley and KAUST under the title "The Black Cloud." Lastly, Norah has represented Saudi Arabia at several international events, such as President Obama's Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington DC, the G20 Young Entrepreneurs Summit in France, The Earth Summit in Brazil, Women as Global Leaders Symposium in UAE, and the Parliament of World Religions in Australia. She is a Global Shaper in the Jeddah Hub and an active member of the Social Enterprises Mentorship Advisory Committee initiated by the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce. She is also a member of the Global Coalition for Sustainable Development, Civil Society Outreach Initiative, CellA+ Jeddah and SUMASA Net Impact Chapter. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2vSd_JxNbb8T0VndHNHemFFa28/view?usp=sharing | http://naqaa.com.sa/ | ||||||
97 | 5/9/2015 4:44:27 | BATTE | CHARLES | Tree Adoption Uganda | Uganda | Uganda | Male | 27 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am a strong believer in the capabilities of my generation and my duty as a young leader is to rally my fellow youth to action. This event presents such an auspicious occasion at which I can remind young people that we are no longer the leaders of tomorrow, we are leaders of today! As thus if today, each one of us does not plant a tree at the back of our houses or in our compounds there is no way we will fight climate change tomorrow. If today we do not refrain from bribing a police officer on the street or an official in an office in order to get our way – there is no way we will poses the moral audacity to fight corruption tomorrow. If today we cannot work an extra hour, sacrifice a night in a bid to create opportunity where it is not – there is no way we will effect economic transformation tomorrow. If today we do not endeavor through innovation, creativity and relentless desire to give back to community by improving service delivery, quality of life and instituting positive social change, then there is no way we will have social responsibility to effect social development today. This event will give me the opportunity to let fellow young people know, that they are my leaders because they have chosen not to promise change, but have gone back to the grassroots, in their communities and created positive social impact. I am proud of my generation and believe that we poses the ability to create a sustainable world and if we fail in this accord, we would have failed an entire generation. | In my community the most pressing social concerns are; 1. Youth Unemployment; 78% of Ugandans are unemployed (USAID2011), 80% of these are youths (World Bank2011); 2. Deforestation: in 15 years, Uganda’s forest cover has declined by 26% (NEMA/UNEP) without extensive reforestation climate change will worsen devastating people’s livelihoods and forests will be extinct in the next 40 years (NEMA 2012). To jointly address these challenges I founded Tree adoption Uganda (TAU) in 2013. We use climate change mitigation activities like tree planting as a portal to economically empower youth. We do this through our TreeCapital Program; we offer basic start up business training, mentor-ship to unemployed youths, enabling them to create, develop and establish business ideas. We help them raise capital via our TreeCapital model; we work with the youth in the program to set up tree nurseries; we then sell the trees to companies that wish to reduce their carbon footprint via corporate social responsibility. We agree with the youth to use the income accrued from the trees as start-up capital for their businesses. This inculcates in them the principles of environmental responsibility, thus building a generation of environmentally conscious entrepreneurs and enables them to improve their welfare and quality of life. TAU then carries out a reforestation in a bid to curb climate change.To date we have empowered 3,750 "Treepreneurs". | I am a strong believer in the capabilities of my generation and my duty as a young leader is to rally my fellow youth to action. This event presents such an auspicious occasion at which I can remind young people that we are no longer the leaders of tomorrow, we are leaders of today! As thus if today, each one of us does not plant a tree at the back of our houses or in our compounds there is no way we will fight climate change tomorrow. If today we do not refrain from bribing a police officer on the street or an official in an office in order to get our way – there is no way we will poses the moral audacity to fight corruption tomorrow. If today we cannot work an extra hour, sacrifice a night in a bid to create opportunity where it is not – there is no way we will effect economic transformation tomorrow. If today we do not endeavor through innovation, creativity and relentless desire to give back to community by improving service delivery, quality of life and instituting positive social change, then there is no way we will have social responsibility to effect social development today. This event will give me the opportunity to let fellow young people know, that they are my leaders because they have chosen not to promise change, but have gone back to the grassroots, in their communities and created positive social impact. I am proud of my generation and believe that we poses the ability to create a sustainable world and if we fail in this accord, we would have failed an entire generation. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B50TDVBXx-ICQjNEZGVnUWg4VHc/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B50TDVBXx-ICLU11enFGbndacEE/view?usp=sharing | http://www.treeadoptionuganda.org/ | |||||
98 | 5/9/2015 7:52:05 | Mashori | Mohammad Hassan Mashori | Fundamental Human Rights & Rural Development Association FHRRDA | Pakistan | Pakistani | Male | 40 | English,urdu,sindhi | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The goal of community systems strengthening (CSS) is to develop the roles of key affected populations and communities, community organizations and networks, and public- or private-sector actors that work in partnership with civil society at the community level, in the design, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of services and activities aimed at improving health. CSS has a strong focus on capacity building and on human and financial resources, with the aim of enabling communities and community actors to play a full and effective role alongside health and social welfare systems | Vulnerable groups: Adolescent girls are highly vulnerable and marginalized members of the most climate change and disaster risk-prone part of the country. Yet in Badin, the project was able to bring together the three communities that are essential for the integration of DRR and climate adaptation: i) vulnerable groups; ii) scientists, researchers and specialists doing cutting edge research on climate change, adaptation and disasters; and iii) policy-makers.By training adolescent girls in community-based radio broadcasting of climate change- and disaster-related issues and solutions, the project was able to provide an interactive platform for engaging these three response communities to devise integrated DRR and climate adaptation solutions. This activity also instilled a sense of proactive action for risk reduction activities. | Professional by Lawyer and Working as a Head of NGO namely Fundamental Human Rights & Rural Development Association (FHRRDA), key team player possessing strong leadership and team building skills believe in effective team work and exceed the expectations of community is a paramount in the growth of any support related service. More than 21 years experience in volunteer work in NGO processes with overall responsibility to develop and implement and leads multiple national and local projects for social and institutional capacity building for democratic governance, conflict prevention and DRR. Mr. Mohammad Hassan Mashori holds a Masters in sociology, Bachelor in Political Science & LLB. Additionally he has worked as a consultant, Master trainer and facilitator for UNDP,Lead-PK,LDM fellow and other government agencies. He has facilitated numerous dialogues among civil society actors for the generation of public policy issues such as human rights, sustainable development and democratic governance. He is a , Key member national and international network and NGO committee. | www.fhrrda.org | Professional by Lawyer and Working as a Head of NGO namely Fundamental Human Rights & Rural Development Association (FHRRDA), key team player possessing strong leadership and team building skills believe in effective team work and exceed the expectations of community is a paramount in the growth of any support related service. More than 21 years experience in volunteer work in NGO processes with overall responsibility to develop and implement and leads multiple national and local projects for social and institutional capacity building for democratic governance, conflict prevention and DRR. Mr. Mohammad Hassan Mashori holds a Masters in sociology, Bachelor in Political Science & LLB. Additionally he has worked as a consultant, Master trainer and facilitator for UNDP,Lead-PK,LDM fellow and other government agencies. | http://fhrrda.org | |||||
99 | 5/9/2015 11:34:21 | Xa Tan | Chuong | International Youth Club Vietnam | Vietnam | Vietnamese | Male | 21 | Vietnamese, English, Japanese | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change or global warming is no longer a matter but a challenge. It is no longer an individual itch but an international debate. What needs to be done is no longer about talking side-by-side but altogether we agree, commit and act. I understand having an effective and instant impact on climate is impossible, however, rather late than never. I want to speak out my own perspective, youth voices and global desires to all empowered bodies to ensure we are on the same boat. For young people, we do not need a Noah's boat to keep all alive. We cooperate, we compromise and we help each other. It is time we stand for what we believe, we stand up and fight for what matters. | Many tourists come to my Vietnam for not only cultures, foods, sightseeings but also for a more particular and singular feature: motorbikes/ scooters. In every street, people observe the flows of motorbikes rushing across and tailgating. Consequently, traffic jams are irresistible. For that, my club in collaboration with UNESCO - CEP and The Saigon News has conducted an annual campaign to call for a greener environment. We, the volunteer, the young people, stand at every traffic lights raising our banners with our program: "20s of engine shut-down" along with giving out leaflets to local people. We believe exhaust fumes are one the major causes to increase air pollution in the many metropolis cities. By cutting down engine's operation, the fumes will be remarkably reduced hence it will prolong the engine's longevity. The campaign first started in Ho Chi Minh City in 2012 but now it has been stretched out like a wildfire to Hanoi, Hai Phong and other big cities across Vietnam. This is not only call for social engagement for a more beautiful city's landscape but also it demonstrates the need of using public transports to reduce air pollution and beyond. | Chuong is currently a taskforce member of International Youth Club (IYC) Vietnam as he acts a coordinator if UNFPA as well as youth representative to National Assembly. For more than 8 years involving in the Club, Chuong has consistently contributed ideas and solutions to organize events for young people in Ho Chi Minh City such as SKY camps, Fly My Vietnam Contest, etc. For him, maybe IYC is not as popular as AIESEC or SIFE, however, he believes every action, though how small it is, must benefit local habitants. From the beginning, Chuong plays as an active members. He works with others, draws out the lines and then carry out the projects. After 3 years of dedication, he became one of the pillars to connect and interact with every generation in the Club. To be frank, Chuong's dexterity to various circumstances is outstanding. He works in prolific fields, particularly youth's policy, volunteerism and human's rights. He was nominated to be Tourism Youth Ambassador of Ho Chi Minh City and Mekong Sub-region due to his idea of developing Community-based Ecotourism (CBET). Later on, he undermines essentiality of having specific national youth's policies so he works in tandem with multiple stakeholders including UNDP, hence he was selected to present Vietnam at World Conference on Youth (WCY) in Sri Lanka and Global Forum on Youth's Policy in Azerbaijan and lately Global Citizen Education Workshop in South Korea. Similar to education, Chuong fathoms environment must be educated multi-dimensionally at every age. For those opportunities, he has got used to public speaking, exchanging ideas and conveying messages. He understand every time he gets on the podium he has the honour to speak up for about 1.8 billion young people, those who cannot make it to the event. To be specific, Chuong has made his speech at the WCY, at the National Summit of Youth Advocacy on Sexual and Reproductive Health in Hanoi, Human Capital Workshop by the Department of States, etc. Those experiences are enormously significant for him to become a youth speaker for this respective event. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9zGcfiKP8BCMHU1YTFwOV95dGc/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BwTGQ9LyAJ9fdVZqc3JDR3FOaWs&authuser=0 | http://home.iyc-vietnam.org | |||||
100 | 5/9/2015 14:18:49 | Rawat | Virendra | B-KANAE School | India | Indian | Male | 42 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I wish to share my experience and achievements in the areas of promoting sustainability through Green School movement with the participants form across the world. | I am the Founder of Green School Movement in India, Mentoring 61 Government Green Schools and 10 Private Schools. I am also Core committee member of Indian Green Building Council Green School Program that certify Green Schools in India. I am the first Indian honoured by Speaker of Massachusetts House of Representatives at Green School Summit held at Boston Univerisry on 8 April 2015. Promoting sustanilinilyty through Education is the core of my mission. | I am working to transform conventional Schools into the Green Schools across the India. I have. established first Green School of India at Modasa, Gujarat, in the year of 2010. Gujarat Government has inspired by his concept of Green School and launched the 100 Government Green Schools across the Gujarat in the year of 2013. Presently I am mentoring 61 Government Green Schools, almost 3 Green Schools in the every district of Gujarat. I am also mentoring IIT -Techfest -2015 in IIT Bombay, I am one of the Core Committee Member of Hydrabad based CII- IGBC Green School Program. I am slo founder Board member of the C U Shah University Surendranagar, I am also serving as a professor of Management in L J Institute of Management affiliated to the Gujarat Technological University, Ahmedabad. I have received many Awards for my contribution in the Education especially for Green School Concept including the National School Sanitation Award- 2012, conferred by MHRD Govt. of India. | http://www.virendrarawat.in/index.html | http://www.virendrarawat.in/profile.html | www.b-kanae.edu.in/ | |||||
101 | 5/9/2015 14:56:12 | CRUZ | QUIN | Inclusive Mobility Network (http://inclusivemobility.net/) | PHILIPPINES | Filipino | Male | 27 | English / Filipino | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Given a chance I want to bring my folding bicycle in the High Level event on Climate Change as a symbolism that we are in-search for the vehicle for climate change, well in fact the vehicle for change is actually a vehicle (bicycle), and let us show the world the bicycles are simple mechanic that we can use in climate change adaptation, disaster risk management and sustainable development. | As I observed and experienced in the early days after a disaster and conflict hit areas, when the private vehicles and public transport stopped running, when public works and infrastructures are damaged, bikes were one of the few reliable ways of moving people, goods, services, and information around streets choked with debris. They don’t require the expensive gasoline that people are still lining up for hours to get. They don’t need to be charged up – just add some basic food to a human being, and you can power the legs that turn the cranks. As a tool for development, a simple bicycle can mean transportation, employment, even access to education and healthcare. We use bike in disaster response but actually advocating biking events, carless days, walking tours and health promotion by using non-motorized transport we are helping our environment in the promotion of low carbon, active and sustainable transportation towards climate change adaptation. We in the inclusive mobility join together for better and improved mobility, safety, productivity, civility and breath-ability. We also conducted training based on the modules like (a.) Sustainable (b.) transport and climate change (c.) Sustainable transport and the climate process (d.) Transitioning towards low carbon transport (e.) Climate finance for low carbon transport (f.) Measuring the impact of low carbon transport interventions on CO2 emissions | QUIN A. CRUZ, advocate of inclusive and sustainable development, a youth leader from Pasig City Metro Manila, Philippines, as a biker he loves to used bicycles in all his advocacies. He is also the Secretary General of the Inclusive Mobility Network and a Council Member of the National Anti-Poverty Commission Youth and Students Sector under the Office of the Philippine President. | www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtSdKfCKQeI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8d7H9cGSiQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBUiNHNvli0 (portion of the video only) | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ANsXR1HvR8eDk0XzNPbGNaYjA/view?usp=sharing | http://inclusivemobility.net/ | |||||
102 | 5/9/2015 18:48:34 | Rosenberg | Raquel | Engajamundo | Brazil | Brazilian | Female | 25 | Portuguese, english, spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event to inspire people from all over the world to get up of their sofas and to be part of the solution that the planet needs. I want to show them that it doesn’t matter your age, gender or the country that you were born in – all of us can be social entrepreneurs, activists and changemakers, especially those taking the decisions that will be present at the event. And I want to highlight the importance of doing it right now in the Paris Agreement, or we wont have time to deal with politics but only with regrets. | I believe in the power of youth to solve contemporary challenges. In 2012 I was a young girl from São Paulo searching for a path to build a more sustainable and equal world for the next generations and mine. UN's Rio+20 was about to happen and nobody knew about it. So I co-founded a committee to raise awareness about Rio+20, enhancing the number of young Brazilians going to Rio because of the work that we have done. Unfortunately, the group that decided to go to Rio+20, including myself, felt totally lost about how to influence what was happening in the negotiations, and frustrated about how decision makers are deciding about our present and future in closed doors. At the same time, we saw young people from all over the world taking their demands to the decision makers through actions and lobbying – and we realised we could be part better prepared in technical aspects to be engaged in the process. Coming back from Rio, we decided to create Engajamundo, enabling young Brazilians to be empowered and to be part of the decisions affecting directly ourselves. In 2 years, we are engaged in 4 different negotiations: climate, post 2015, gender and the habitat agenda. Engajamundo has volunteers in all regions of Brazil and, with the support of WWF-Brasil, we have capacitated over 1000 young people in 12 different states. Through an accessible language and the capacity building workshops, we show young Brazilians that by changing themselves, raising awareness and building political positions around different issues, we can change our reality. | Raquel Rosenberg, 24 years old - born in São Paulo, Brazil, and graduated in International Relations at Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC-SP) - has made it her mission in life to work with people and organizations that seek convergence in ideas and purposes for the creation of a better and more sustainable world. As coordinator and director of AIESEC and responsible for iBrics – The BRICS Institute, she had the oportunity to undertake various projects and events of innovative character. Founder of the College Committee for Rio + 20, she was active in the mobilization and engagement of São Paulo’s youth for this UN conference. She attended Journey of Learning in Activism and Mobilization, School of Activism and participated in the Global Power Shift organized by 350.org in Turkey, and the Workshop of Young Latin Americans for Climate in Colombia. Raquel founded and today is fully dedicated to the development of Engajamundo, an organization that aims to empower and engage youth in international negotiations. Still in its first year of existence, Engajamundo has established partnerships with WWF, Greenpeace, academics companies and youth movements around the world. Leading Engajamundo, she has attended the 19th and 20th UN Conferences on Climate Change, in Poland, November 2013 and Lima, December 2014; Bonn intersessionals in Germany, June 2014; and spoke at UNF’s Google Hangout for International Youth Day 2014. She is engaged in various climate lobbying, activism, and youth representation at a national level. She is a fellow of GCCA’s Adopt a Negotiator since November 2013 and fellow at Red Bull Amaphiko network in Brazil and affiliate at Ashoka. | Press conference CAN-LA COP20: http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop20/events/cimate-action-network-latin-america Press conference youth COP20: http://unfccc6.meta-fusion.com/cop20/events/2014-12-02-17-00-university-of-california-what-now-for-climate-justice-youth-movements-from-lima-to-paris Greenpeace's video on Raquel's work (in portuguese): http://www.greenpeace.org/brasil/pt/Noticias/Jovens-agentes-da-mudanca/ Google Hangout for International Youth Day 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky9QIvOjH00 Meeting at the Foreign Affairs Ministry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpzeWT1A2bk&feature=youtu.be (speech - 3:16) Press Conference at COP19: http://unfccc4.meta-fusion.com/kongresse/cop19/templ/play.php?id_kongresssession=7049&theme=unfccc Engajamundo's presentation (in portuguese): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZXTOgJZ6yo Workshop at University (in portuguese): http://www.livestream.com/tvpuc/video?clipId=pla_0930921d-f5f5-4194-8ca4-37044a4ded98 | Raquel is the president of Engajamundo, a civil society organization that engages the Brazilian youth in international processes. She was at Rio+20, COP19 and COP20 and 2014 and 2015 Intersessionals in Bonn, where she was part of Brazil’s official delegation and participated directly in Article 6 negotiations. Raquel leads Engajamundo in youth-empowering workshops in all regions of Brazil debating major climate issues. | http://www.engajamundo.org/ | |||||
103 | 5/10/2015 2:47:03 | Senanayake | Sulakshana | Empower Lanka | Sri Lanka | Sri Lankan | Male | 24 | English, Sinhalese | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am interested in speaking at this event since it will bring together a number of stakeholders and policy makers of the highest level who are capable of implementing concrete measures at tackling climate change and is therefore an ideal platform to demonstrate how even a 24 year old boy with a few other teenagers from a small island nation at the mercy of climate change can and has made a sizeable impact thorough crude and seemingly insignificant methods. I hope to impress upon the participants, through examples of my own work and work of many other young activists how real change is possible if only one sets out their hearts and minds to it. If an individual can make a change, member states can make a revolution through collaboration. I also wish to impress upon the urgency of the need of effective measures as some countries such as my neighbouring island nation of Maldives is on borrowed time and at the mercy of those who are present making the right choices immediately. I also hope to emphasize to participants that this event is the last such event before the all-important agreement to be reached in Paris in December 2015 where it is essential that concrete measures are taken and agreements reached rather than negotiating and disagreeing. It is therefore an ideal platform to emphasize the importance of collaboration and unity in the greatest challenge of our time- the success or failure of which our future generations will remember us by. | I founded my own social enterprise called Empower Lanka (www.empowerlanka.org) which is a social enterprise that serves the 30% of Sri Lanka’s population that has no access to electricity due to poverty or being off the grid. The vision of Empower Lanka is Environmentally Friendly development while contributing to the eradication of poverty in Sri Lanka –particularly among indigenous and war torn communities– through the promotion of renewable, environment friendly energy while involving youth in the process to encourage volunteerism and activism in addition to giving valuable vocational training. Empower Lanka has invented the concept of “Wireless Lighting” to provide Solar Powered lighting for rural villages through micro off-grid solar power systems. The “Empower Lanka Model” makes it possible for the Corporate Sector to “Sponsor Villages” to install the power system and issues Certified Carbon Credits to the sponsors. Empower Lanka is the first organization to introduce Microgrid technology as an effective means of solving the energy crisis while reducing CO2 emissions. My work in sustainable environment friendly development projects at Empower Lanka has seen savings of over 10 tonnes of CO2 in a year while providing electricity to over 140 families living in the poorest war-torn regions of the country who have increased their domestic production and quality of living as a result. My work in tackling climate change is not only focused at mitigation but also at adaptation to the repercussions which climate change will inevitably bring about. | As the youngest Attorney-at-Law in Sri Lanka and founder/director of Empower Lanka, a social enterprise which seeks not only to protect the environment but also to alleviate poverty though the spread of renewable off grid electrification, Sulakshana is the ideal candidate for the above role to inspire participants at this high level event that successful climate action is still possible. His work in sustainable environment friendly development projects at Empower Lanka has seen savings of over 10 tonnes of CO2 in a year while providing electricity to over 140 families living in the poorest war-torn regions of the country. He has pioneered the development of cheap Solar Power Systems that can be deployed in the most remote regions.Through these achievements of Sulakshana, Empower Lanka was awarded with the Energy Globe Award for Sustainability which is one of today’s most prestigious environmental awards. Therefore Sulakshana meets all the criteria of being a lead of a celebrated Civil Society organization which is the only one of its sort in the south Asian region tackling climate change as well as poverty. What makes his efforts even more unique is his team at Empower Lanka who are all under the age of 25. Sulakshana has therefore integrated youth activism and innovation in his war against climate change while inspiring youth and empowering them with valuable skills they receive through the work at Empower Lanka. He is actively engaged in carbon dioxide reduction efforts and has engaged with a number of stakeholders including the UN, American Embassy and the British Council in his projects. Sulakshana is also part of a network of global climate change activists and innovators combatting climate change through various means around the world. He is therefore in a perfect position to showcase climate action, through concrete initiatives and multi-stakeholder approaches to address climate change. As an Attorney-at-Law, Sulakshana is by profession a compelling public speaker having already been part of high level cases in constitutional and Fundamental Rights. He has also presented at global platforms such as TEDx, The British Council, UNESCO, UN ECOSOC and the American Centre to wide appreciation. Sulakshana has been awarded the titles of International Climate Champion and Global Changemaker of the British Council and UNESCO Disaster Relief Ambassador. He already possesses a valid visa to travel to New York on the relevant dates. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MHt8m2xjuM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADuHNbf_fs | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B94vAFS5Eh5RaFplVkNpeVQzdUU/view?usp=sharing | empowerlanka.org/ | |||||
104 | 5/10/2015 9:22:20 | AVILA | MARIA ROSA | ISEGORIIA asociación | Argentina | Argentina | Femenino | 50 | Español; entiende ingles, portugues y frances | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Comunicar la importancia de generar urgentes acciones por el cambio climático, dar cuenta de las acciones que se realizan desde la sociedad civil, de las acciones individuales y colectivas que se pueden realizar y se realizan y en las cuales se marcha ...pero no alcanza. Explicitar la vital importancia de esta situación para todos nosotr@s como especie humana, ya que tenemos que globalizar el cuidado de nuestro mundo. Y entonces de las urgentes acciones de los Estados, de los espacios políticos para cumplir acuerdos, crear nuevos marcos, generar más y mejores acciones frente al cambio climático, el rol de la justicia frente al cambio climático y el rol de de adecuación de las empresas frente al cambio climático. Accionesporunmundosostenible | Desde la sociedad civil ISEGORIIA trabaja en la promoción y acción de los derechos, fundamentalmente promoviendo la participación ciudadana, por un mundo que deje atrás la degradación ambiental y fomente el camino hacia un mundo sustentable; con grupos de adolescentes de diferente condición social que incluye especialmente a jóvenes en situación de vulnerabilidad y a grupos de mujeres y adolescentes mujeres. Los talleres sobre derechos (incluyen la perspectiva de género) y al final de ese proceso se llega al tema ambiental, acciones frente al cambio climático locales, en nuestro país y en el mundo como conciencia global. Formamos Promotores y Promotoras por el medio ambiente y los derechos,fortaleciendo liderazgos para la acción, articulando con la ONG RAZONAR. Difundimos información especialmente en las redes sociales. Sobre la base de brindar talleres sobre ciudadanía, democracia, y medio ambiente se logra avanzar en generar herramientas para un liderazgo activo de l@s adolescentes, y como resultado promover una ciudadanía activa con una visión de este nuestro mundo y de la importancia de su cuidado, y de exigir rendición de cuentas en aspectos tales como compromisos locales y regionales de no emanación, mitigación, o información sobre el cumplimiento de acuerdos internacionales y la adecuación local. Las y los promotores de derechos ambientales que se capacitan en estos procesos son impulsados a ser actores del cambio, una ciudadanía activa para sensibilizar, informar, y pedir rendición de cuentas. | Desde hace 20 años trabajo brindado talleres sobre derechos con perspectiva ambiental en diversos lugares de nuestro país, en los últimos años enfocada a las y los adolescentes. Soy abogada, especialista en TICS, y enseñanza EVEA, con Diplomatura en Coaching Ontológico y Liderazgo Organizacional, Comunicadora social y Psicóloga Social. Docente-ayudantia en UBA Derecho en Teoría del Estado. Teniendo amplia experiencia en Políticas Públicas habiendome desempeñado 2002-2004 Coordinadora del Regitro de ONGs GCABA 2004- 2008 como Directora General de Políticas descentralizadas en el Consejo de los Derechos de Niñas, Niños y Adolescentes de GCABA y habiendo cumplido funciones en la esfera nacional 2000-2001 en Políticas de Articulación Interministerial del Consejo Nacional de Derechos de Niñas, Niños y adolescentes. He participado en diversos y múltiples encuentros internacionales y nacionales exponiendo y debatiendo sobre diversos temas vinculados a los derechos. Quiero señalar la importancia de haber realizado una articulación de trabajo, en algunos proyectos y temas con la asociación Razonar-fundadora y directora Gladis Villalba-, dada la trayectoria, y la complejidad del ciertas problemáticas por las que atraviesan algunas zonas geográficas y por las acciones sobre ciertos grupos o poblaciones especialmente vulnerables. Las organizaciones de la sociedad civil precisan en muchos casos de la articulación como acción estratégica para abordar proyectos y programas, principalmente por la sinergia de la acción conjunta y la importancia de optimizar recursos humanos y económicos.Y de la construcción activa de redes. Desde ese lugar abogamos por un mundo sostenible, por mayor igualdad y por la participación activa en el tema ambiental impulsando acciones desde la sociedad civil en el marco del principio 10 que fomenta las acciones integradas de la participación ciudadana en temas ambientales | Sería muy importante para ISEGORIIA poder participar acompañada por una promotora de Derechos frente al cambio climático la señorita Guada Grasso integrante y lidereza adolescente de la ONG RAZONAR. Y compartir algunos minutos de la exposición con ella para escuchar los puntos de vista de los jóvenes frente al cambio climático. María Rosa Avila | http://isegoriia.blogspot.com/ | ||||||
105 | 5/10/2015 21:51:23 | TELOU | KOSSI ESSODINA | Association Solidarité-Espoir | Brasil | TOGOLESE | MALE | 26 YEARS | FRENCH | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | Participer à ce congrès serait une grande expérience de plus pour partager notre expérience avec les autres jeunes et aussi apprendre plus sur les nouveaux enjeux climatiques et les défis à relever pour sauver notre planète. Sûrement notre participation aura un grand impactement sur le futur de nos actions dans le pays et dans la région ouest africaine. | Chaque année nous célébrons la journée de l'arbre pour amplifier nos actions dans la préfecture sur le sujet, pour ce fait, le mécanisme implanté est, transmettre le message, conscientiser les adultes, à travers les enfants et les adolescents, alors, à chaque événement, avec tous les enfants sous notre responsabilité dans la préfecture, nous plantons des arbres dans les villages. Une actions qui a vraiment changé la conscience de ces populations rurales, de 2010 à aujourd'hui, plus 800 enfants ont participé à cette journée et plus de 5000 plants ont été planté dans la préfecture. notre vision est, former des enfants, adolescents et adultes environnementalement responsable, puisse que notre survi en dépend. | Je suis Kossi E. TELOU, 26ans de nationalité Togolaise. Étudiant en en relations internationales à l'université Swift-Campinas, São Paulo-Bresil. Je suis Président fondateur de l'association solidartité-espoir. Association basée au Togo plus spécialement dans la préfecture de Amou-Togo dont l'objectif est de promouvoir l'éducation pour tous dans les milieux ruraux du Togo, lutter pour le droit des enfants (l'éducation, la santé, l'épanouissement...), l'auto-emploi des jeunes, soutenir le développement à la base par des programmes spécialisés, Protéger et préserver l'environnement. J'ai été Père Éducateur du programme de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé de 2005-2006, durant cette période, j'ai été formé et à mon tour sensibiliser les jeunes sur le droits des enfants, les maladies suxuellement transmissibles. De 2007 à aujourd'hui je suis un engagé social au Togo avec l'association que je préside jusqu'alors. Séminariste depuis 2011 au Brésil, j'ai aussi un bon sens de l'oratoire, ce Jeudi 14/05/2015, j'ai organisé un grand débat (A ÁFRICA CONTEMPORÂNEA NOS DEBATES INTERNACIONAIS) pour discuter sur l'Afrique contemporaine à l'université où j'étudie pour la célébration de la journée de l'Afrique ici. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mTVd-EDdPJUFRtSzBrcUJGTjQ/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7mTVd-EDdPJX1g3QjBRMWdVczQ/view?usp=sharing | http://ase-togo.org/ | |||||
106 | 5/10/2015 23:54:57 | Acosta | David Steven | Red Nacional de Jovens de Ambiente Colombia | Colombia | colombiana | Masculino | 23 | español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | El poder hablar en este evento es la oportunidad de dar la opinión de más de 7000 jóvenes de mi país y como generar una propuesta y decisión sobre el cambio climático que se está enfrentando nuestro planeta y como accione desde nuestros países en vía de desarrollo y lograra visualizar diferentes perspectivas de la población de diferentes países y observar, contemplar y generar intercambios de conocimiento y aprendizajes significativos atreves de nuestros conocimientos y experiencias que hemos tenido como líderes de nuestros territorios y el trabajo que se ha venido desarrollando en cuanto a l cambio climático y cómo unidos como población podemos generar pequeñas acciones que generan grandes cambios | La Red Nacional de jóvenes de Ambiente es una organización de carácter voluntario en el país de Colombia realizamos eventos y talleres relacionados sobre cambio climático y cómo afecta a nuestro país y los impactos en nuestra biodiversidad , el evento fue realizado por jóvenes el día 21 de septiembre con el nombre "Bogotá marcha por el clima 2014" donde realizamos una marcha por las principales calles de nuestra ciudad , este evento conto con participación de el alcalde mayor de nuestra ciudad y entidades locales , se generó un documento para ser llevado a la cumbre del clima de 2014, la marcha movilizo a más de 1000 personas y en su mayoría eran jóvenes , los jóvenes no somos el futuro , somos el presente y allí evidenciamos la preocupación de este tipo de población donde está tomando liderazgo por los problemas que está afectando el planeta Tierra y como pequeños cambios de hábitos diario podemos contribuir a mitigar y adaptar el cambio climático que hoy en día estamos sintiendo , somos la primera generación en sentir los efectos del cambio climático en nuestro planeta pero somos la única en la cual podemos hacer algo , las ciudades y países en vía de desarrollo dentro de sus planes de gobiernos a nivel local municipal y nacional deben adaptarse hacia el cambio climático y generar mecanismos de participación y de educación a sus poblaciones , así también generar en sus ciudades energías limpias, transporte eficiente ambientalmente sostenible y aprovechamiento de sus recursos naturales evitando y generando impactos más verdes en nuestra ciudades | David Steven Acosta se desempeña como coordinador nacional de comunicaciones de la Red Nacional Jóvenes de ambiente Colombia su papel es realzar todo el proceso de comunicación de la red a nivel nacional además es miembro fundador de la organización, su trabajo ha permitido ser destacado a nivel local , distrital y nacional durante su coordinación fue reconocido como maestro de maestros otorgado como líder ambiental en el año 2009, también fue miembro organizador de diferentes eventos relacionados con temas de cambio climático , como debates , mesas redondas y foros a nivel local y distrital El aspirante tiene más de 7 años de experiencia en trabajo con jóvenes y educación ambiental de su territorio bajo los principios orientados de la red: joven educa a joven , joven trabajo con joven una generación aprende con la otra y la educación es práctica ,David ha representado a la organización en diferentes espacios en universidades, foros , eventos donde se ha invitado a la red nacional de jóvenes de ambiente por lo cual tiene un buen manejo de público y claridad en los temas | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Fs6vpUJ_dhX3lyazNwTWxwSWM/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Fs6vpUJ_dhTzJDblFGSHFqck0/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
107 | 5/11/2015 3:37:10 | Alao | Olukayode | Department of Civil Engineering, University of Cape Town | South Africa | Nigerian | Male | 26 | English, Basic French, Yoruba and Hausa | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | An issue in Africa is its imminent lack of technology & research innovations transfer. Innovative solutions from research and development institutes end up on “library shelves” and are not been adequately transferred to the end users, this is notable in the engineering, agricultural, energy and manufacturing sectors. These are problems that I would be very interested in seeking to understand and engage on. Specifically, speaking at this event would provide an opportunity to sensitize government officials, policy makers and country leaders on opportunities that exist to have environmentally friendly economies. | Concrete is one of the most extensively consumed human-made material. The annual global consumption of concrete in 2013 was estimated at 25 billion tons per year. The reasons for concrete’s significant use may be attributed to its numerous benefits which include its versatility, affordability and its ability to be engineered to suit desired performance. The consumption of concrete continues to increase with increasing world population and rate of urbanization. The world population is estimated to be about 7 billion, and it is projected to rise to 9 billion by the year 2050. Furthermore, with future projections of urbanization to reach 67 % in 2050, it is expected that there will be a consequent rise in concrete demand for infrastructure development. The continued use of concrete in massive quantities has significant effects on the sustainability of the environment. The production of cement, one of the main constituents of concrete, is responsible for 7 % of anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Also, the annual aggregate and water consumption for concrete production are estimated to be at about 9 billion and 1 billion tons respectively. The massive use of natural resources by the concrete construction industry is environmentally unsustainable. The design of durable concrete for a sustainable environment must encompass the use of recycled and waste materials, low energy requirement and CO2 emissions from cement production, and ensure low incurred costs for maintenance. | Olukayode Alao is currently a PhD scholar with the Concrete Materials and Structural Integrity Research Unit (CoMSIRU) at the University of Cape Town. He has a MSc from the University of Cape Town and a B.Eng from the Federal University of Technology, Akure in Nigeria. His research interests are in structural engineering, specifically: marine concrete materials, durability and sustainability. Olukayode has been to several speaking events such as presentations and conferences. He has been recently selected by the UN 'Our Common Future Under Climate Change' to participate in the conference in July 2015. | Pitch video - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1cA8lWwGfk7Z3V4UnJuLWV2NkE/view?usp=sharing | Resume - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1cA8lWwGfk7VFhDVkpydjJmbFk/view?usp=sharing Proof of studentship - https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1cA8lWwGfk7a0FaZkZfQlhVUVE/view?usp=sharing | www.civil.uct.ac.za/ | |||||
108 | 5/11/2015 11:41:38 | Osero | Stephen Onkundi | National Environment Management Authority | Kenya | Kenyan | Male | 24 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Speaking at this event will be a great opportunity to share ideas on how am currently working to hack climate change issues. Having this great opportunity to tell Member States, Government Ministers, high-level participants, and other representatives on how to track and hack this global issue, it will enable me to actively participate in policy formulation on ways to make changes on how the environment is managed through proper professionalism and capacity building. I will be able to represent all Kenyan youths and youths from all over the world who will not have the opportunity to attend. Through having diverse knowledge on climate change and mitigation measures, I will share with the whole world by using my excellent communication skills. | I have successfully initiated a proposal that tackles climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions from waste sector. As a 2015 Climate CoLab fellow in the Land Use: Agriculture, Forestry and Livestock contest, am engaging to reach out to the global community in drafting novel proposals that can effectively address climate change. I also lead in the drafting and submitting the winning proposal in the Climate CoLab on ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from waste sector in Kenya. This enabled me to present it at MIT during the Crowds and Climate: From ideas to Action conference. I was chosen as the MIT Climate Change fellow, whose main role is to work with MIT Sloan School of Management, center for collective Intelligence in finding novel ideas addressing climate change. Working with the Climate CoLab, housed at MIT Sloan School of management’s Center for Collective Intelligence, I am coordinating a dedicated team of experts in further making this dream a reality. In 2010, I convinced my lecturer to build a biogas digester at her home, cutting emissions and empowering households in Nairobi sub-urban area of Ngong town. I chose to address climate change because of the many challenges it poses to community such as disease susceptibility and economic brunt it's inflicting to the poor. Thinking on how to make waste a resource that can empower the youth in Kenya and around the world was the major driver for this idea. | Osero Stephen Onkundi is a compliance and enforcement officer (intern) in our organization. His roles are crosscutting, including internal and external programmes within the mandate of the organization. More specifically he is involved in; Checking on status of the E.I.A reports for clients, Updating EIA database, Providing advice to clients on environmental issues, Undertaking other administrative duties such as receiving and dispatching correspondences to the Lead Agencies. Within our organization, Osero is well known of having excellent skills in; ability to organize personal work priorities, Ability to work independently and as part of a team, great customer service orientation, excellent organizational skills and above all an Excellent public speaker. He has presented in local and international conferences representing our organization. The most recent was at Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT) during the Crowds and Climate: From ideas to Action conference, a Climate Change conference, Where he presented an article on how reduce greenhouse gas emission from wastes. These has enabled him to be chosen as the MIT Climate Change fellow, whose main role is to work with MIT Sloan School of Management, center for collective Intelligence in finding novel ideas addressing climate change. | https://goo.gl/pm3RUF | www.nema.go.ke/ | ||||||
109 | 5/11/2015 12:15:26 | Copeland | Lila | Earth Peace Foundation | United States | American | Female | 13 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | From Lila: I am 13. Neither my generation nor my children will have a planet to live on if we do not activate to turn around the destruction adults have put on our ecosystem with their detrimental habits and greed-driven treatment of our resources and earth. This may sound dramatic, but the situation we are in today is quite dramatic and very urgent. I want to speak at the event because quite frankly, all the speakers, including celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio, who have appeared on your stage regarding the issue of climate change, always skirt around the massive elephant in the room: animal agriculture. We have no more time to dance around the most pervasive issue facing us concerning climate change: animal agriculture is responsible for 51% of the toxic load on our atmosphere and green house gasses. There is no way to slow climate change without doing away with animal agriculture. UN needs someone without a stake in animal agriculture to address this issue without reservation, and that is me! This is crucial to my survival and survival of my generation and my goal is to spread the word far and wide. | Earth Peace Foundation exists to educate and assist young people in schools and clubs with essential facts concerning the ill-effects of our consumption of the traditional animal-based diet proscribed by our predecessor humans and the disastrous effects it has on other species, our planet, and our ethics. In our youth discussion forums in schools and clubs, the urgent necessity of a total transition to planet based diets is addressed in depth, along with sustainable farming and how to apply personal financial resources to boost local organic plant agriculture. Lila Copeland has had tremendous success in face to face education in schools and clubs, sparking passion in young people to go vegan for the planet and animals. When we cannot be personally get inside schools and clubs for forums, we distribute a free food guide which makes it easy for young people to explain to parents that they are transitioning to a vegan diet and how to gain their parents' support for doing so. Our food guide is also available free online for anyone who wishes to see it. | Lila Copeland is the founder of Earth Peace Foundation. Her vision is the driving force behind our operations and efforts. Lila has an integral role in developing campaigns and moving them forward. Lila has appeared at March Against Monsanto marches in Los Angeles and has made public addresses about the threat to our planet that GMO agriculture poses - at those events to large audiences. Lila prepares and delivers youth discussion forums in Earth Peace Foundation presentations in schools and clubs. She meets your criteria for the 2nd panel by having the base knowledge of the issue to be able to discuss it and put forth concrete ideas to initiate a tangible change in our protocols now. Her current campaigns include 1) A viral video campaign to urge Al Gore, Kevin Wall and the UN to cease serving animal products at their LIVE EARTH climate change events and to use the opportunity to reinforce to their concert attendees that going vegan now is the way to save our planet 2) a social media campaign called "What are YOU Doing?" which inspires young activists to share how they are influencing others in their community to transition to a vegan diet. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFh3Lrg2v1s | www.earthpeacefoundation.org | http://www.earthpeacefoundation.org/ | |||||
110 | 5/11/2015 16:39:48 | Runov | Igor | International Road Transport Union (IRU) | USA | Russian Federation | Male | 63 | English, Russian | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | To share IRU best practices on sustainable transport systems. | The IRU 30-BY-30 Resolution, adopted by the 18th Session of the UNDESA Commission on Sustainable Development in May 2010, and by the IRU General Assembly in November 2009 is a voluntary commitment by the road transport industry to reduce C02 emissions by 30% by 2030. IRU Member Associations call upon vehicle manufacturers, tyre manufacturers, telematics and energy providers to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions via interoperable systems and the latest technologies. The IRU and its Member Associations also call upon competent authorities to work with the entire logisitics chains in the road transport sector to achieve C02 emissions reduction targets. They are encouraged to use business incentives to promote innovative transport technologies in accordance with IRU’s 3i Strategy focussing on Incentives, Innovation, Infrastructure. The Resolution encourages best practices to transition from fossil fuel to alternative and cleaner energies, and making good use of existing infrastructure and investments in new infrastructure. In line with the IRU’s Smart Move Campaign to double the use of bus and coach transport at local, national, regional and global levels as the most environmentally friendly part of the mobility chain and the best tool to reduce CO2 in passenger transport, the Resolution encourages the standardisation and harmonisation of vehicles, transport units, weight and dimensions; and accession to international Conventions to benefit the environment. | Dr. Igor Runov Born in Moscow in 1952. In 1975 graduated from The Moscow State Institute of International Relations, faculty – international economic cooperation. After receiving Ph. D. in economics in the US and Canada Institute, (Moscow), in 1979 joined the USSR Ministry of Foreign Trade, where he was gradually promoted from senior expert to the Head of Department of International Economic Organizations. In 1991-1995 served as a Vice-president of the US – USSR Trade and Economic Council in Moscow and in New-York. In 1995-2001 worked as the Vice-President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia. Since September 2001 – the Head of Permanent Delegation of the International Road Transport Union (IRU) in the CIS region, since February 2010 – the IRU Under Secretary General. In his current capacity Mr Rounov is promoting liberalization and harmonization of road transport regulations with international law and UN based standards, developing security standards, overlooking implementation of 1975 TIR Convention on a vast geographical area. In 2005 he initiated the IRU New Eurasian Land Transport Initiative (NELTI) aimed at establishing regular commercial haulage between China, SEA and Europe along several designated routes. In 2010 under his leadership a new project – Model Highway Initiative was launched. Since June 2013 – the Head of the IRU Permanent Delegation to the UN in New York City, USA. Membership: Vice-Chairman, “Association Russia – USA”; Board of Trustees, Expert Institute of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. Dr Runov was a speaker and moderator at multiple international high level conferences and roundtables, such as 2nd UN Conference on LLDCs in Vienna (November 2014), Bucharest Forum, 1st Hemispheric Seminar CIP-OAS in Montevideo in 2014 and many others. | https://www.iru.org/ | |||||||
111 | 5/12/2015 7:01:02 | Utami | Andhyta Firselly | World Resources Institute | Indonesia | Indonesian | Female | 23 | English, Indonesian | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change and forestry issues have long become Andhyta's passion. Beyond her two years of professional experience in the field, she has been involved in this issue since she was 16, when she participated in an international project olympiad on environment. Being able to address international stakeholders in a prestigious, high-level forum such as UN-NGLS would be a golden opportunity for her to share not only her experience but also values and beliefs that making a change—although hard—is possible, as long as we have the courage and are committed to do it. | Andhyta is part of the team that developed Global Forest Watch Fires, a near real-time forest fire monitoring platform that empowers governments, businesses, as well as civil society organizations and community in reducing peatland and forest fires, one of the main contributors to climate change. Indonesia is world’s 5th top GHG emitter after China, the US, India, and Russia. However, its emission profile is unique compared to the other countries: 85% of it is attributed to deforestation, peatland, as well as land use change driven by agricultural activities. Since the 1990s in particular, forest fires have constantly become an annual issue especially in Riau and West Kalimantan, where most of Indonesia’s tropical peat swamps (50% of the world) are located. It reaches its peak recently when in 2013, Singapore and Malaysia had to declare emergency state due to the haze from Indonesia’s peat burning, which some research shows has also accounted for almost 10% of Indonesia’s average annual emission. Andhyta has worked with the national government in Jakarta as well as local civil society groups in West Kalimantan to address this problem. Using GFW-Fires alerts, the time lag required to respond to a fire is reduced significantly, and companies who should be responsible for these fires could be held accountable. Additionally, Andhyta is also involved in the organization’s work to promote extension of Indonesia’s policy regarding moratorium of new licenses in primary forest and peatland, which would save forests as large as the area of Japan. | When asked about the two top issues that become the drivers of Andhyta’s work on a daily basis, the answer would be forest governance and youth empowerment. From 9 to 5, she works from her desk as a Research Analyst for the World Resources Institute, a global economic-slash-environmental think-tank. After hours or during weekends, she spends more time on capacity building and advocacy activities related for young people through Indonesian Future Leaders, an organization her friends and she co-founded in 2009. Graduated cum laude with a bachelor degree in International Relations from Universitas Indonesia last year, recently she has been convinced of the utmost importance of youth participation in decision-making processes, particularly pertaining to forests and the environment. Therefore, in addition to taking a career in the sector, she also tries to engage youth through Parlemen Muda Indonesia (Youth Parliament Indonesia), a national movement aiming to increase youth’s involvement in democracy she chaired throughout 2013-2014. Her contribution in both worlds later got her invited as the keynote speaker for Forests Asia Summit Youth Session 2014, participated by young professionals from all around the world. Previously, she was also part of the Open Government Indonesia Secretariat under President’s Delivery Unit for Development Monitoring and Oversight of Indonesia. From there on, she regained faith on creating good governance and transparency for this country, starting from bureaucratic reform. She used to also help the Ministry of Energy and Resources with through their Energy Efficiency and Conservation Clearing House of Indonesia. Andhyta also holds a long list of accomplishments, including the 3rd Prize of UNESCO-GOI International Essay Contest for Young People in 2012. During her time in college, she has directed numerous international and national Model United Nations conferences, while also winning several awards as a delegate. Recently, Andhyta was selected to represent Indonesia as the Head of State to Y20 Russia, where she spoke in person with President Vladimir Putin. Recently, she just got accepted by Harvard University and Columbia University, where she planned to pursue a master’s degree in public policy next year. She hopes to be able to come back to Indonesia and contribute for the country by working in the public sector. In her free time, she tries to minimize her carbon footprint while writing (both fiction and non-fiction) in her blogs. | https://youtu.be/YGBFKzEg_Os?t=4m55s | https://www.dropbox.com/s/6fsn5w47oc8sy3r/Resume%20-%20Andhyta%20Firselly%20Utami.pdf?dl=0 | www.wri.org/ | |||||
112 | 5/12/2015 9:19:19 | de Souza | Iago Hairon | ENGAJAMUNDO | Brazil | Brazilian | Masculine | 21 | Portuguese, English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | To answer the reason I want to speak at the event I'll tell a little story from my life! I'm boy scout since a child, the movement helped me to build my climate and activist awareness. As youth I started to put environmental struggles in my life when I was a 14-year-old boy. I'm a hope in person, but I'm also a politic person and I know how important is build politicals ways to reach accords. The history i wanna tell you is, last year I discovered that I'm a chronic kidney paciente, it was very hard in the beginning for me, generating a lot of psychological and emotional disorders and to solve it, but I Put all my will power in my volunteers jobs about climate awareness here in Brazil. Help youth people and children to understand and act against climate change also helped me to face all my problems. See how much our projects is causing positive impacts in differents regions of Brazil is one of my reason to live! Today I want to be a example for all youth people in the world, I want to say that WE CAN DO ALL WE WANT, and we can make a REAL DIFFERENCE in our realities, no matter how big our problems is! I want to spread to the world that climate impacts are affecting us now, not in 50 years! I want encourage people to put up this struggle and join forcesI want impact climate negotiations with my voice , and there's no better place do do that than a UN general Assembly! | The successful story that I wanna tell you is the story of Engajamundo’s capacity building about climate change to children and youth people from all the Brazilian's five regions. Enjagamundo's volunteers were responsible to elaborate the capacity building content. The aim in this actions was translate what is climate change and how it happens also having a focus in the internationais conventions that discuss this theme. Talk about what are the main obstacles in negotiation and how youth people can interfere on it. The differential of talk about climate change than others as poverty an violence, is the fact that what happens in a country affects directly others. Therefore, each positive or negative action taken in Brazil will makes consequences to all over the world, in the same way that we suffer climate consequences from others coutries. And it is the point of each capacity building "act local, thinking in a worldwide view". No matter where we are working: in an indigenous tribe at amazon, or in a school in São Paulo. In a university in Santa Catarina State or in an NGO from Bahia state. Running the projectt we are creating and expanding climate awareness in Brazil. We act in network and this is our way to take care of our planet, we believe that we can make awesome things sharing education. We believe in youth power to win contemporary challenges! Youth are acting, is necessary show it! Vídeo link of four Capacities Buildings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZdHPDQ-jOA | Despite all formal processes and my achievements (will write about it in my CV), I wanna start writing my biography talking about smiles! I love smiles, and I love the anthropological symbolism on it. Smiles can tell stories of different people, from differents parts in the world. My Vollunter job at Engajamundo can provide smiles, chidren and youth smiles, and for me above all, not exist something more significant than it. Ispire youth people to act agaist climate change is belive in youth power to ensure social equality, and ensure the existence of future generations! We also are fighting for intergenerational Equity! The world belong to us, and we have to have in mind that our action can be an amazing mechanism to reach climate justice. After talk about it, my knowledges about public speakers was build in my experience. As Climate Working Group coordinator at ENGAJAMUNDO I had amazing oportunitues to speach in the front of youth, children, goverments and local Tvs. Had the amazing oportunite to be in contatct with different realities whether in indigenous tribes whether in UN Climate changes conferences, whether in climate justice marches! My experience knowledges are compiled on it! (I attached specific knowledges on my CV). | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B852gMEsaXdObjNMWWFuSkVLbVk/view?usp=sharing | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KqkkovOj3c0JyTuxBDsx6ySy2Ydod3pPtXtPJu45sFw/edit?usp=sharing | www.engajamundo.org/ | |||||
113 | 5/12/2015 21:01:52 | CELIS ALARCON | JOSE DE JESUS | MEXICAN SOLAR ENERGY ASSOCIATION (ASOCIACION NACIONAL DE ENERGIA SOLAR) | MEXICO | MEXICAN | MASC. | 34 | ENGLISH, SPANISH | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to share with other emerging leaders the best practices acquired throughout the my education and professional experience in order to implement actions on GHG emissions reduction, main reason of Climate Change. ANES, want to share how we could reduce the gap between Society - Industry - Universities in developing countries. ISES and ANES want to show how promote the efficient use of energy and the use of renewable sources, by adopting new technologies and implementing best practices has an high impact on economical, financial, technical, social and environmental issues. By this reason, we want to speak at this event, providing real success stories on how to reduce Climate Change. A Strategic Approach has an objective:develop renewable energies to reduce the effects of climate change, providing energy security and combating poverty now and ever. | ISES is the largest international solar organization, with extensive membership worldwide, ANES is the Mexican section of ISES and is the largest Renewable Energy Association in Latin America. ANES promotes on Federal Government, States, Municipalities, Industry, Universities and NGO actions and laws to promote Renewable Energies, Energy Efficiency and Climate Change mitigation. We have worked closely with the following embassies: USA, Germany, Canada, Spain, France, UK, in order to develop study cases, pilot demonstrative projects, etc. In collaboration with the World Bank, we develop the first training for Renewable Energy for Agricultural activities. ANES has promoted the Renewable Energy Law, we have participated in establish the Federal norms for Energy Efficiency, this allow the creation of more than 3000 MW on Renewable Energy. At the same time, we had done social activities with mexican native communities to develop Green Projects where we have a commitment on Sustainable Development. ANES has worked with IRENA, ASME, ASHRAE, REN 21, IADB, IFC. By our efforts on a Green Society we were recognized on the National Renewable Energy Award given by the Presidency of Mexico in 2004; in 2013 the U.S. Embassy in Mexico give us the Award of the Best Green NGO in Mexico. | Mr. Celis has a B.S. Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Industrial Engineering from ITESM. Mr. Celis is the Secretary General of the Mexican National Solar Energy Association (ANES), which is the largest Renewable Energy Association in Latin America. He served as Energy Manager in Honeywell Mexico where he had served for the last 5 years developing several projects on solar, wind, biogas and energy efficiency. Since 2014, He has collaborated at the UNEP – FI Working Technical Group 2 : Governments. For his professional experience, he has been accredited as a Trainer at the National List of Trainers of the Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare and Accredited Advisor at the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). Early in 2013, he was selected by the U.S. State Department to represent Mexico in the North American Trilateral Green Energy Exchange Program organized by the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) where he had the opportunity to discuss ideas with high leaders from the U.S. and Canada. Researcher at the Environmental Quality and Renewable Energy Centre. He has been awarded with the ASME Petroleum Division 2001; Emprendedores – Tecnológico de Monterrey 2004; Invest Mexico 2008 (given by Sistema de Aceleradoras de Negocios ITESM and Arizona State University). Finalist in the Energy Innovation Contest by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Republic of South Korea in 2009, and in the 5th. Award for business innovation by Santander Bank. | NA | NA | www.anes.org/ | |||||
114 | 5/12/2015 22:47:41 | Lobo | João Luís | APMM (Actions for change the world) | Brazil | Brazilian | Male | 16 | Spanish, Portuguese (native) and English (basic) | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | When I had the first ideas to found the APMM, was completely involved in an ideal possibility of change through dialogue and exchange of experiences, today I feel it even stronger. I really want to be able to share this ideal with more people, so they can be inspired and start making a difference, places like the General Assembly are excellent for this kind of relationship happen, and hopefully be a differential in the inspiration of all participants. I believe to have experienced many experiences and processes related to the environment and youth in Brazil and worldwide, I am prepared and accustomed to places like these and I can contribute a lot to him. With the various experiences I went through, I can say I know a part of the general aspirations of youth and much of the environmental problems we live, I feel very proud to bring this voice and to represent all these people wherever I go. I really want to share with the world all our experiences, aspirations and concerns to begin to make a difference at all levels. | The APMM (Actions Can Change the World) is a group formed and created by young people in order to transform realities through simple actions. The network was founded by me and a friend, when we had 14 years in 2013, and is totally maintained and organized by young people. The average age is 12-25 years. Using all possible means, the group is already present in more than 300 Brazilian cities with the main objective of disseminating knowledge, improving the quality of life and brings young people for environmental actions. Actions ranging from support to children and youth in social vulnerability until the recovery of degraded areas. Always following the ideal of young educates young and young learns from young. With more than 100,000 native trees germinated and planted by these young people, it was possible educate thousands of people and recover hundreds of hectares of destroyed forests, mainly in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest. In addition, thousands of cubic meters of carbon dioxide were removed from the atmosphere of the planet. The APMM is directly related to the school environment, and it is through him that we disseminate much of the knowledge and innovation to take people. Dissemination and implementation of good practices such as: organic gardens, composts, selective collection, reduction and mitigation of the carbon footprint, rain water harvesting, use of solar panels and creating local groups multipliers, are some of the actions required for any regional group formed. | João Luis Lobo, 16, Brazilian from the city of Congonhas in Minas Gerais state. Studies mining at the Institute of Technology, Science and Innovation of Minas Gerais. Creator of the national network of young Brazilians (APMM), member of Collective Youth of Brazil, president of the Student Guild at the institution where studies, CLIC member (Latin American and Caribbean youth movement to climate change). Was a delegate of the State Environment Conference where proposed alternative forms of energy to an audience of two thousand people, and thus, was selected to participate in 2013 of negotiations of the IV Youth Brazilian Conference where he presented proposals and was voted by about 5,000 delegates and was defined the Brazilian government's actions in relation to youth and environmental education. Was a speaker for an audience of 3000 people at the State Conference of Youth Policies promoted by the government of Congonhas, Minas Gerais in 2013. He was a negotiator and speaker at the Latin American Youth Conference for the Environment organized by UNEP in 2014, presented Brazilian environmental projects to 900 people from 18 countries in the city of Manizales, Colombia. In the same year 2014, he was delegate of the Conference Of Youth (external event of COP20), where he defended articles on youth policies for more than 1,000 young people from 180 countries and he participated in the first two days of COP20 in Lima, Peru. In December 2014, he was invited by the Brazilian government to create a document to the national youth plan in a group that discussed public policies for racial, ethnic and environment. As creator of the APMM, manages and monitors the realization of all projects executed from the beginning. Represent the APMM in events in order to encourage more young people to the pursuit of improving the lives and develops low-cost projects to run across the country, also assists in the articulation of dialogue with youth movements and partnerships. It has been operating in the region where he lives in the defense of workers and the quality of life of the mining populations, and develop projects and give lectures to local schools. | I speaking in Spanish at the Latin American Youth Conference for the Environment, 2014. (Manizales, Colombia) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5JKqq7KM_gKNWZBbmNucW8wNnc/view?usp=sharing | |||||||
115 | 5/13/2015 5:35:11 | Neupane | Satyadeep | Asia Journalist Association | Nepal | Nepali | Male | 16 | English, Nepali | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because I want to share my inspiring story to everyone present and listening to me so that they will also be inspired in taking local climate action which will help whole world to remain protected from the negative impact of climate change. | Every one of us is living with some expectation. None is living without any expectation. We expect a lot of things and what about environment where we live. Environment provides us food, shelter, our basic needs. We are able to survive because of environment. Providing such facilities it might also expect something from us. It can’t express what it is expecting from us and we are ignoring it because of this reason. Logically we can say it is expecting from us its protection, as most of us are also expecting our life. It is our duty also to protect environment which provides us all the materials for our survivable. Human activities are responsible for climate change which have been threat to the environment. We are not in a sustainable path. I alone in my place started to take path of sustainability. It has been about a year of my local action. I go to villages of my nation making the people living in it aware about the path of sustainability. I myself saved money for buying trees, traveling,etc. I didn’t search for an opportunity. I myself created that field as I really wanted to take action. Now, I have been able to complete my campaign in 3 different villages of 2 different district. I can say this is a successful story because village where I first started my campaign people now follow the path of sustainability. People used to depend upon fossil fuel but now they depend upon solar energy and bio fuel. Not a long travel but the journey of 1 year made me realize that if we are interested in doing something nothing can stop us from doing anything good. | He read in grade 10. He has been working in the field of climate change for its solution since 2014. He manages time during his vacations to carry out the campaign to aware people about the climate crisis and how it can be solved by our local action. According to him “Climate change is happening and it is due to human activities. Every one of us is responsible for the severer problem of the world.” So, He wants everyone to work for its solution also. He is interested in climate change as he cares about not only about himself but of whole world. He is from Nepal a developing nation and being of age 16 he is also a aware youth of the world. He was involved in the organization about 6 months before. He himself carryout his campaign and program of awareness and plantation and this organization helps and supports him for the program. He works as the representation of the organization. He has given many presentations in public so he is comfortable in public speaking. He also has experience of speaking in public. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-VmqoV5DPl3aVVTWkF5eUs4MlE/view | www.ajanews.asia/ | ||||||
116 | 5/13/2015 8:50:44 | Galarraga | Ibon | Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) | Spain | Spanish | Male | 41 | Spanish, English and Basque | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | The reason why I want to speak at this venue is because I truly believe that UUNN should consider new governance models to effectively mainstream climate policies. The role that sub national governments can play (and are already playing) in climate policy (and politics) has not been properly addressed in international discussions, and it is a topic that is under-researched. I was Deputy Minister for the Environment of the Basque Government in the period 2005-2009 and represented the voice of regions in many. I now work as a research professor and I am willing to contribute from the academia to a better decision making process. The IPCC devotes a whole chapter to the discussion of the role of sub-national governments in AR5 (see http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg3/ipcc_wg3_ar5_chapter15.pdf) but there is still a lot to explore on how this level of governance can effectively contribute to achieving global agreements; and more specifically, how can regions contribute to a success of the Paris Summit. I am co-author of one of the papers quoted by the IPCC in this topic so I feel I can contribute to the debate showing a success story. | Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing human kind, and it requires urgent policy action. Although climate change policies are mainly being discussed at international level by means of the United Nations Conventions and the Kyoto Protocol, the bulk of the impact will be felt at regional and local level. Regional (subnational) and local governments are thus important actors. Moreover, regional governments in many parts of the world hold many of the competences to implement policy actions for both adaptation and mitigation. This talk will illustrate the important role of regions in climate policies and considers many of the policy instruments being designed and implemented. I will give some information on 23 leading regions in climate policy and offer some lessons from the case of Basque climate policy; an inspiring example of an industrial region in Europe where the degree of decentralisation is really significant and it can effectively contribute to the implementation of ambitious climate policy. | Ph.D. in Economics (Environmental Economics) from the University of Bath (UK), M.A. Economics at the University of Essex (UK) and B.A. Economics (speciality of International Economics and Development) at the University of Basque Country. He has worked as an environmental consultant for many years for both public and private clients such as the World Bank, the Department for International Development of the British Government or the Basque Government. He was co-founder of a consultancy company. Ibon taught microeconomics and macroeconomics at the University of Bath and Economic Policy at the University of Deusto. During July 2005 and May 2009, he was the Deputy Minister for the Environment of the Basque Government, Vicepresident of IHOBE and member of the board of the Ente Vasco de la Energía (EVE). While in this position he was in charge of the preparation of the Environmental Framework Programme 2007-2010, the Basque Plan to combat Climate Change 2008-2012 or the Contaminated Soil Plan 2007-2012 among others. Regarding the International sphere, he was the Deputy Co-Chair of the Network of Regional Governments on Sustainable Development (nrg4sd) from 2005-2008 and has actively participated in many CoPs. He was the Deputy Director of BC3 in the period 2013-15. | http://www.fundacionareces.tv/watch/53d03d498d8592333d8b46b9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUgoog4KM5w | http://www.bc3research.org/en/ibon_galarraga.html | www.bc3research.org/ | |||||
117 | 5/13/2015 14:45:18 | Chatterjee | Keya | CAN US | USA | USA | Female | 38 | English, Spanish, Hindi | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | I truly believe we are at a turning point in terms of climate change where we need political will from governments and business to reflect ambitious calls by people from across the world. The HLPF on climate change is a great opportunity to speak on behalf of the people and organization Climate Action Network is representing. My knowledge and my experience will help me to effectively present our vision of a fossil fuel free future, our vision of a world below 1.5ºC, the negative effects comunities are alread facing from climate change and also show that change is posible. | History was created when more than 400,000 people from all walks of life took to the streets of New York City in September to tell the world, ‘More Climate Action, Now’. As a campaigner, advocate and author on climate change policy I was personally involved in the preparations and mobilization for the March. This was a great day for local action in the US and for me as a climate activist. In my current position with Climate Action Network I would however not only speak on behalf of organizations in the US and their action but actually would speak on behalf of the biggest climate change network globally. Climate Action Network International (CAN-I) is the world’s largest network of civil society organizations working together to promote government action to address the climate crisis, with more than 900 members in over 100 countries. www.climatenetwork.org | Keya Chatterjee is Executive Director of Climate Action Network (US), and author of the book The Zero Footprint Baby: How to Save the Planet While Raising a Healthy Baby. Her work focuses on building a movement in support of climate action. Keya recently appeared in the documentary 'Disruption,' promoting the People's Climate March. Keya's commentary on climate change policy and sustainability issues has been quoted in dozens of media outlets including USA Today, the New York Times, Fox News, the Associated Press, The Washington Post, and NBC Nightly News. Prior to joining USCAN, Keya served as Senior Director for Renewable Energy and Footprint Outreach at the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), where she worked for eight years. Before that, Keya was a Climate Change Specialist at USAID. Keya also worked at NASA headquarters for four years, communicating research results on climate change. Keya was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco from 1998 to 2000. She currently serves on the board of the Washington Area Bicycling Association. Keya received her Master's degree in Environmental Science, and her Bachelor's in Environmental Science and Spanish from the University of Virginia. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeBh8orFRo http://350.org/press-release/disruption/ http://www.dw.de/interview-with-keya-chatterjee-wwf/av-17937381 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqeBh8orFRo | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9JcaIub-xK_LV85TzlBTXgyWGc/view?usp=sharing | http://www.usclimatenetwork.org/ | |||||
118 | 5/13/2015 14:49:59 | Qanie | Mohammd Yahya | The New Line Organization | Afghanistan | Afghan | Male | 21 | English, French, Dari, Persian and Pashto | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | First, all I am a very successful civil society activist and the project I mention about climate was my creativity and the first project for climate in Afghanistan. It means I really thing about this problem in my country and other countries as well. The other reason is that my country is the most polluted and very dangerous for environment and climate. There is nothing standard in my country even we don’t have train and metro, every single person has an old privet car, which makes lots of pollution. This event would be a great opportunity to say my message for all over the world. Other thing which makes me speak in this event is my prepositions, as I mentioned before, so I can explain them to the world and we can find a good solution together. Finally, I am a good public speaker and I am sure I can transform my and the worlds message to authorities in a very good way. | The New Line Organization has done a great job to help control the warmness and the pollution in Afghanistan. First of all we provided a survey for all provinces of our country to know about different problems and causes. The greatest job we could do was to inform the people about this big catastrophe and to help them control it. We made banners, billboards, brochures, executive e-monthly. Our project isn't finished yet and we are still working on it. The biggest problem for all provinces were burning plastic and rubber for heating house, companies, public baths and many more, using a bad quality oil (Diesel) for cars, which are more than 700.000 cars only in the capital of Afghanistan. We want to have another survey to know how much our project worked. I have some prepositions for other countries, which looks possible. First of all, all countries should come together and create an international union for fighting against local and international climate. It is clear that big cities causes climate problems not small and faraway villages and provinces so we should concentrate on big cities. A good way to encourage every single people to fight with this issue is to create NGOs, who gets fund and works hardly for that. We can also increase the tax for privet cars, companies who are dangerous for climate and to punish more then before the people who cut jungles. Finally, we can celebrate the day of climate very especial, which can be like a campaign as well. | My name is Mohammad Yahya Qanie. I am Afghan and I live in Kabul, capital of Afghanistan. I was born in Peshawar, Pakistan on January 6, 1994 during the civil war of Afghanistan. I grew up in Kabul, Orozgan and Peshawar. I had a very simple childhood with my only sibling, my older cousin. I started school in Pakistan in Mirwais Nika School. After our relapse to Afghanistan in 2003, I continued my intermediate educations in Said Noor Mohammad Shah Mina School. It was a simple school with least of facilities. In 2007 I moved to Habibia High School, the first high school in Afghanistan and finally graduated from this high school. In 2012 I succeeded to start higher education at the Kabul University, Nonce I am a student of the 4th year. This university gave me the key of life and by its gravity I knew myself, my role in society, my role in my family, my abilities and the ways of success. currently, I am a civil society activist and i work for many CSOs in Afghanistan.Beside this I am a translator of Le Monde Diplomatique. In future I want to study Political Science, and obtain my masters and PHD in this faculty. It is my big dream to be a political personality and to serve for my people and my country as they need our help. It is not only my interests to study political sciences but my abilities, qualifications and situation of Afghanistan also encourage me to study this faculty. I can speak Dari, Pashto, English, French, Persian and a little German and I like to learn and speak Arabic as well.I am a person who is positive about every aspect of life. Finally, it wouldn't hurt to travel to amazing places, to meet wonderful people and finish my education. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9XgdRMupAMaOW80S1o1N2V0eW8/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9XgdRMupAMaaHJyNk5fbHEwems/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
119 | 5/13/2015 20:27:10 | FRUEAN | BRIANNA | Small Voices of Sanoa | Samoa | Samoa | Female | 16 | Samoan/ English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | It would be a true honour for me to be given this opportunity to speak at General Assembly this year. This would give me the publicity that I need to draw global attention to the issue of climate justice in the Pacific and urgent need for world leaders to take action to mitigate the impacts of climate change not just in the Islands but in the world. Climate Change is effecting everyone regardless of age,status, race and gender. The World leaders need to wake up make a tangible commitment. I believe that I am the perfect Candidate to speak on Climate Change and how it’s affecting our lives as children. I have been doing this since I was 11 years old. I want my Islands to be here for my children and their children’s children in years to come. The small voices in my head tells me every day “If we don’t fight for us, then who will?. | I’m a 16 year old Environment and Climate Change advocate from Samoa. Over the last five years as a Climate Change Activist, I have inspired thousands of young people across the Pacific and the World to take practical actions to combat climate change in their communities and raise awareness of the plight of Pacific Islanders. I started my own Environment group “Small Voices” at the age of 11 and also became the youngest National Coordinator for 350.org in Samoa. In the last 5 years I have led action driven activities such as Recycling, Marches promoting moving away from fossil fuel dependency, Composting, Native Tree Planting, Energy & Water Conservation within Schools and local communities. In this I worked hard in strengthening the involvement of youth in the climate change movement and inspiring youth to be active and taking ownership of our planet, taking action and working on solutions. I have held seminars in schools and communities over the years which have empowered Pacific Youth to make active choices in their lifestyles to be Agents of Change by starting and leading their own Environment groups. There is a need to continue the push towards having youth as a participating party to making decisions as we inherit the decisions made and are at the receiving end of them. I have travelled globally to summits, as a representative of the Pacific Youth Voice. I voice our concerns on the impact of climate change and how it’s affecting our lives and any future we hope to have. | At the age of 11, Brianna became one of the founding members of the Samoan branch of global climate change organisation 350.org, and founder of local environmental group “Small Voices”. Small Voices and 350.org Samoa implement various projects to help combat climate change and promote sustainable development through awareness programs to spread the word around schools and communities in Samoa and the Pacific region. At the age of 12, Brianna attended UNEP Children’s Conferences in Korea & Japan. At the age of 13, Brianna organised yet another environmental awareness activity on behalf of 350.org, 'Moving Planet Samoa'. A walk which attracted more than 200 people in spreading awareness on climate change in Samoa and the world. Link to Moving Planet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjIKy3JsgbI At the age of 14, was one of the youngest ever delegates to the Rio+20 Summit in Brazil. As a Pacific Youth Ambassador and part of the PACMAS Pacific Media team as a Youth Reporter, her news items and daily blogs were posted on the Samoa Observer. Link to Rio +20 Blog: http://climatepasifika.blogspot.co.nz/2012/11/rio20-briannas-blog.html | Link to Moving Planet video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjIKy3JsgbI Link to Bright Ideas Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhEuUUZS4I8 | Information on Brianna Fruean’s story link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brianna_Fruean This year, at the age of 16, Brianna was the youngest ever person to win the Commonwealth Youth Award (Climate Change, Environment Protection) travelled to London to be congratulated in person by the Queen of England. She was also invited to speak at the 'Bright Ideas from Commonwealth Youth' event in London. http://www.samoaobserver.ws/home/headlines/13138-young-samoan-wins-commonwealth-award- Link to Bright Ideas Speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhEuUUZS4I8 In 2015, Brianna was chosen by the South Pacific Regional Environment Program (SPREP) as their first ever Youth Ambassador in recognition of her achievements to conserve the Pacific environment. She is the first recipient under the SPREP Youth Ambassador Links to: http://www.sprep.org/climate-change/oceania-21-lifou-declaration-calls-for-strong-ambitious-climate-change-agreement-in-december | ||||||
120 | 5/13/2015 22:54:06 | Sales | Erika | Asia Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) | Malaysia | Philippines | Female | 30 | English, Tagalog | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Erika will be an excellent advocate for SRHR and climate change due to direct interaction with partners from the ground and would be able to effectively relay their lived realities in facing climate change issues. She has deep passion for SRHR and climate change with notable years of work experience on women’s rights and gender. She enjoys dealing with various stakeholders, working with other young people, and speaking to different personalities. | Erika, a nature lover, started her career in environment as a GreenPeace volunteer - participating in fundraising, and in specific programme teams of the organization setting up boats for water-based campaigns. She then moved on to do gender-based work for various women's organizations and networks before becoming the programme officer at ARROW linking climate change and coordinating programmes for 8 countries in asia pacific, building resilience in local communities throughout the region. Her commitment to SRHR and work on intersectionalities have contributed to having a more comprehensive Post-2015 development agenda and climate change. | Erika M. Sales, from the Philippines, is an enthusiastic feminist and sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) advocate. She gained her rich work experience in advocacy, resource mobilisation, campaigns, and communications from her various work contexts in development. As Program Manager of Venture for Fund Raising, she managed the capacity building project for reproductive health organisations in the Philippines. She also played a key role in engaging supporters for Greenpeace Southeast Asia, an independent global campaigning organisation that works on protecting the environment and promoting peace. Her passion and interest in youth leadership, women’s rights and gender are evident in her volunteer and work experience at the Women and Gender Institute (WAGI) and Development Alternatives for Women of the New Era (DAWN). As intern and consultant of WAGI, she helped organise trainings for their Young Women Leadership Programme. As Programme Officer of DAWN, she helped coordinate projects on gender and development, as well as on sexuality and reproduction. Erika holds a BA in International Studies from Miriam College in Quezon City, Philippines and MA in Women, Gender and Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) of the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Hague, Netherlands. After obtaining her MA, she joined the Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) as Programme Officer and has helped manage projects that strengthen the SRHR agenda to impact the ICPD+20 and Post-2015 processes. She helped organise cross-movement initiatives on poverty, food security and SRHR, and is currently working with an alliance of 8 organisations in the Asia-Pacific on the interlinkages of climate change, gender, and SRHR. Her education, volunteer and work experience expanded her understanding of women’s rights and gender and intersectionalities of development issues. | www.arrow.org.my/ | |||||||
121 | 5/14/2015 1:47:08 | Usikpedo | Caroline | Niger Delta Women's movement for Peace and Development (NDWPD) | Nigeria | Nigeria | Female | 40 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to share the our stories and success made towards Climate Change impact in the Niger Delta and Nigeria. I want to bring the voices of the voice to the global arena to help influence and shape key decisions affecting our lives at the grassroots. | Women suffer more than men during disasters. Women in local communities are more vulnerable to the effects of climate change because of their high dependence for livelihood on natural resources that are threatened by climate change. The Niger Delta is region is highly susceptible to adverse environmental changes occasioned by climate change because it is located in the coastal region of the world that are already experiencing flooding due to rise in sea level. Amid the impact of climatic change, the region is also faced with myriads of environmental problems resulting from oil exploration and exploitation activities. In 2009 and 2011 , we organized 3 Tribunals and PUBLIC HEARING ON WOMEN, WATER, POVERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE focusing on Sustainable Adaptation and poverty reduction which feed into the final results presented at the Klima Forum in Copenhagen and in Durban. In Jesse, the tribunal created the platform and opportunity to hear from the women who directly bear the impact of climate change and polluted farmlands which has led to low crop yield and impoverishment of the people. In Odi attention was drawn to lack of portable water, the pollution of River Nun and the grinding effect of poverty and climate change caused by the activities of oil multi nationals which resulted in extermination of aquatic life and soil infertility. The 2011 tribunal strengthened the voices of women to upscale local solutions to influence negotiations and plans of action on climate change at the national as well as the international level during COP17 and Rio+ 20. | Caroline is the Founder and National President of the Niger Delta Women's movement for Peace and Development, she has been involved in the post 2015 development agenda, she was part of the women delegation for advocacy at rio+20, participated at the UNCSD and all meetings of the post 2015 development agenda. As part of the NDWPD capacity building project, Ms. Caroline Usikpedo, the National President has reached out internationally to initiate local-to-global links with other women’s, anti-poverty and environmental organizations and networks. As a member of the African renewable Energy Alliance she has collaborated on bringing renewable energy solutions to the grassroots to achieve sustainable development. Caroline and the NDWPD in Partnership with the Feminist Task Force GCAP Facilitated three women’s tribunals and public hearing , In 2009 and 2011 ON WOMEN, WATER, POVERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE focusing on Sustainable Adaptation and to STRENGHTEN VOICES and SEARCH FOR SOLUTIONS. she is an International speaker and has presented several papers at Global Conferences on the Niger Delta and made interventions on behalf of rural women at global conferences and discussions, including the Rio+20 conference in Brazil and the Post 2015 Development Framework processes with the United Nations High Level Panel members, High Level political Forum including UNFCCC. | https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?page=view&nr=872&type=12&menu=1807&template=1042&play=844 http://www.unep.org/flvPlayer/videoPlayer.asp?id=27838&l=En&vidonly=true&w=480&h=272 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BtL3676nls https://www.google.com.ng/search?q=CAROLINE+USIKPEDO+UNEA&biw=1024&bih=461&tbm=isch&imgil=SvJkNzDo9ZDqvM%253A%253B3CHZN_w_Z1KfeM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fawcfs.org%25252Fkw%25252Ftag%25252Funea%25252F&source=iu&pf=m&fir=SvJkNzDo9ZDqvM%253A%252C3CHZN_w_Z1KfeM%252C_&usg=__zedlZuEsZyPF-k8MiVOGgv5N51g%3D&dpr=1&ved=0CEQQyjc&ei=wDgtVcibKvCp7AaTv4DwDw | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wNSz6ZdTz36nJViX8uG361OohQ00fNBHu6fG6xavc2w/edit?usp=sharing | ||||||
122 | 5/14/2015 10:00:58 | Kutahi | Sarah | Environmental Liaison Centre International | Kenya | Kenya | Female | 25 | English, Kiswahili | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like to speak at this event because I have witnessed people suffer from the effects of climate change. I have been a slum dweller and the poor need one of them who understand their issues since they suffer most due to lack of resources to adapt and help in management instead of overuse of resources. With my kind of experience I understand issues better and am the best candidate for this. | As an aspiring environmental education officer I understand well the need for Education for Sustainable Development. Education plays a major role in enlightening communities on new developments before they are adapted. The European used education to conquer the hearts of Africans. Therefore my experience since2012 in ESD has made me achieve the same results; the adaptation of cleaner innovations. Last year I worked with the communities at the coast of Kenya in matters of climate change project development. I taught classes on coastal habitats, management and vulnerability to climate change and what communities stood to lose if they did nothing and if they remained ignorant. I conduct a baseline survey prior to project development and implementation according to the results of the survey. The projects were divided in five themes; waste, water, energy, food and health and they solved local environmental problems and earned them an income. currently we strengthen the capacity of CSOs on climate change, natural resource management and environmental governance we also publish a quarterly journal on the same matters hoping to impact even more lives. | I am an environmental scientist graduate. Education has always been a very important source of inspiration for me; it opened my eyes to all the opportunities the world presents. Communicating matters of climate change, conservation and their effects to our personal lives is my passion. Interrelations between the planet, individual lives and sustainability cannot be ignored. My interest in conservation grew when I volunteered as an Environmental Education Officer at the giraffe center in Nairobi. Interacting with individuals from all corners of the world made me grow from a timid young lady to a very confident and focused individual. I got an opportunity to work with children on Education for Sustainable Development which integrates children into conservation. I later joined Kenya Wildlife Service at the Mombasa Marine Park for more conservation work. Global Vision International offered me a scholarship to carry out research on terrestrial and marine habitats and their biodiversity. I interned with Climate Action Programme for schools and the youth and now am with Environmental Liaison Centre International as a co-editor graduate trainee. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5HZfZUTOKuhTE1MVExOMlFQVFk/view?usp=sharing | http://elci.org/ | ||||||
123 | 5/14/2015 10:01:00 | mahmood | Ahad | Qurban & Surraya Educational Trust | Pakistan | Pakistani/British | Male | 18 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I believe that every child can become a useful member of the society if they are given the opportunity to do so. I am fortunate to have been given the best of education available in the country. I would like to share how education and opportunity can inspire the younger generation to make a difference in the lives of those people who have no chance to grow. I would like to share how small organizations like ours can make a big difference locally. I believe that our story can inspire millions to start thinking about how one person’s dream can change many lives. I would also like to challenge the talented youth of Pakistan to come out and start living their dreams of making Pakistan a better place as our governments have failed to provide for its people. | I volunteer for Qurban & Surraya Educational trust. In Pakistan energy crisis has been an ongoing problem. The extreme weather conditions make it very difficult for students to concentrate and teachers to under perform due to the lack of electricity. In Yr 2012 we stayed in a solar powered house in UK and I was very fascinated. I started to search for companies in Pakistan to install solar energy systems. I came across 2 companies and asked for a quote. For our organization the quote given was ten million rupees which seemed like an impossible amount as their budget wouldn’t allow it. I had to first convince the company to accept payment in instalments and then to convince the board of governors to look into it and then ways to raise the money. It took me about a year to find a reliable company to provide us with solar panels, the management advised to spread the cost over 3 phases and 3 years and then the payment to be made in instalments. The management, governors and the company agreed upon Rs 1000,000 a month which helped to spread the cost. With the help of the staff and the management we also arranged fun fairs and various activities to raise fund. In 2014 we installed our first phase covering 1/3rd of our building. This year we have completed the 2nd phase of another 40 rooms with our main hall accommodating 800 people. We are the 1st educational institution in Lahore to have taken the initiative and it not only helping our students and staff but has helped the environment as well. | Ahad Mahmood has been volunteering at our organization since he was a kid. His passion to help the less privileged has always been a driving force. He works with children who have difficulty in reading and writing and spent time encouraging those kids. He also organized sports and extra-curricular activities at various levels. He is a representative of our organization and we officially authorize him to speak on our behalf. He is well aware of the project as he initiated it and is fully capable to address the topic in detail. He has always demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders successfully and has good negotiation skills. He speaks well in public and has done so on many occasions in the institution. | Ahad is very busy taking his final A level exams. I haven't got any recording of him speaking. I didn't want to disturb his study. I can send one in after his exams. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2dJjZdkIwf_NFFhZGJjVFZkRms/view?usp=sharing | www.qurbantrust.edu.pk/ | |||||
124 | 5/14/2015 16:32:14 | TOUMI | Sarah | Tunisia Climate | Tunisia | Tunisian | Female | 27 | English, French | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am a role modele of young woman fighting climate change in the Arab world. Climate change impact directly stability and peace in our area, and through my method, I am able to fix populations of farmers, giving a job and opportunities to youth, as an answer to the high rate of unemployement and poverty. But also giving a voice to women who represent 60% of our beneficiaries. With Tunisia Climate, a think and do tank, we are highlighting the most innovative and impactful solutions for mitigation and adaption to climate change in Africa. We are preparing to highlight these solutions in COP21 in Paris. | In Tunisia, due to climate change, 70% of the lands will be desert by 2020. This will impact directly millions of lifes. That's why Sarah Toumi started the organization called Tunisia Climate (Acacias for All). We're working with hundreds of farmers, providing trees that flourish despite the change in climate. These trees produce fruits and gums, like date, pomegranate, olive or arabic gum that the farmers can sell cooperativly in their community. We're helping farmers adapt to the changing climate, while giving them the means to support themselves. In the next three years, we will plant 1 million trees that will provide financial stability for 10 000 farmers. We are giving hope and bringing about a brighter future for the live of all Tunisians | Sarah Toumi is the founder of Tunisia Climate NGO and the social enterprise Acacias for all who propose a new holistic approach to use farming as a way to fight desertification. She is 27, Tunisian woman. Climate change activist, she as been at COP15 and working for TakingITGlobal for the program Tread Lightly, educating educators about ecological footprint and climate issues. She is a TEDX Women speaker, winner of the Women for Change, Ashoka Fellow, and the French Ministry of Foreign Affaires selected her initaitve as one of the 100 initiatives for a sustainable Africa. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wYzh7c5VJ3ZHlNWGZSUWZmSTA/view?usp=sharing | |||||||
125 | 5/14/2015 21:26:38 | López | Andrea | Club ecológico UPS | Ecuador | Ecuatorian | female | 19 | English, Spanish | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Because we just have one world and opportunities like these are where you and me and all the people that are concerned about this planet can be heard. And I want to know all the proyects of people like me around the world. | In my ecology class all the members of that group decided to start a recollection of any kind of plastics just to see the quantity of plastic we use and then we throw. The quantity of plastic that we are collecting its incredible and now all the courses which are following environmental engineering in first semester at Salesian Polytechnic University are helping us¡. | Im Karina López i have 19 years old. I am a president of my group of class and im studying environmental engineering my role in my organization is mainly to be a support person in their projects and i expect to be more than that and then become into a lider of my organization. I know that human behavior is the principal factor of the climate change and I don´t want to be part of the problem, I want to tell to my grandchildren how people like me around the world started to make a change in this planet and because of that they still can play in the park and smell pure air. As I said before Im president of my classroom and i can express my own ideas easily and I can debate about important topics speaking clearly. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0By0D8iNFETTJVzFSZWRkeW1VZ2c/view?usp=sharing | http://www.ups.edu.ec/club-ecologico-ups | ||||||
126 | 5/14/2015 23:07:24 | Yane | Jeremiah | Lorex Energy | Papua New Guinea | Papua New Guinea | Male | 25 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because I have something that needs to be heard. Hailing from a developing country and having seen the hands of climate change wreak havoc in my country, I believe it is time that we as young leaders take a bolder stance alongside the rest of the developed countries and fight climate change. I want to speak because I know for sure that although we the developing countries have not contributed immensely to climate change, we have felt the adverse effects of climate change in a broader spectrum from rising sea level, increase in pesticide, crop mutation, foreign disease, infections and sickness, changing weather patterns, etc… There is growing concern because these effects of climate change have destroyed societies, displaced communities, and shaken economies and it is time we do something about it. I want to speak because I believe that there is no greater time or place to speak and voice the concerns of the developing countries than before the presence of The UN President of General Assembly and distinguished delegates. It is at that international stage that I will find common ground and strongly express my views about climate change. | Right after graduation from university as a mining engineer, I decided to take up the role of becoming a local climate change warrior and advocate rather than pursue a career in the mining industry. I did so by establishing my own solar power company to tap into renewable and sustainable energy. My country has been independent for 40 years since independence in 1975 and to date only the 40% of the population have access to electricity. The other 60% of the population live in darkness by either burning biomass, wood, or use diesel powered generators. Therefore my role is to install solar power via electrification projects to the remote and rural areas where the utility grid cannot penetrate through. It is by doing so that we abandon old ways that has contributed to climate change and adopt sustainable path. By investing in renewable energy we have also created economic opportunity by creating jobs and employment. Thus creating equal level employment opportunities and establish a middle class to improve people’s lives and improve the economy. By encouraging people to divest from fossil fuel and embrace renewable energy power sources in relations with sustainable development and climate change, we protect the environment and keep it healthy for future posterity. Since I have seen and experience the detrimental effects of climate change in my island nation, I am committed to doing my part in battling climate change by completely powering my nation with renewable solar power. | The nominee is currently the Founder and CEO of a start-up solar power energy company in Papua New Guinea. His role in the renewable energy organization he founded is basically the overall upkeep and sourcing of clients and customers to adopt clean energy and divest form fossil fuels. Since only 40% of the 7.5million population of PNG has access to utility grid power, he is determined and committed in playing a major role in bringing clean electricity to the other 60% of the population mostly living in rural and remote areas where utility grid power cannot reach them. He has a huge role to play and looks up to business leaders like Elon Musk for inspiration in the area of renewable energy. Although he is the CEO of a start-up, he is a very ambitious and purpose driven individual and a force to be reckoned with in the area of renewable energy in Papua New Guinea. As the CEO of Lorex Energy, he is officially authorized by his organization to partake in this event on behalf of the organization to drum up public interest and awareness about climate change issues and the benefits of divesting. This is an opportunity to take center stage. He has sound broad based knowledge about climate change issues both locally and internationally. During his undergraduate studies, he has written research proposals, debated issues and given presentations about climate change and global warming. The nominee has on several occurrences demonstrated wit and the ability to engage constructively when representing his organization to various stakeholders such as investors, customers, clients and workers. He has charming people skills acquired from reading and practicing Dale Carnege’s leadership training skills. He is a very confident and exciting speaker to listen to and takes pride in doing so. He engages well with his audiences during sessions when he is pitching for his company or doing presentations to potential investors and customers or when motivating staffs. The nominee will be available for travel to New York on 28-29 June 2015. He is also able to obtain a visa within 2 weeks to travel to New York. He has had many public speaking engagements and overtime he has become quite good at it. When he speaks he is seen to be cool, calm and collected. He normally speaks comfortably out in the public when he is addressing the public community or his employees. He generally loves public speaking and articulates clearly. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EpDc-u848CNUFBelZHY1l2VjA/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3EpDc-u848CRnIyb3hWaXhLLWs/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
127 | 5/15/2015 5:21:59 | Basu | Kehkashan | World Future Council | UAE | Indian | female | 14 years | English , Bengali , French , Arabic | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As we are midway on the road to Paris, I want to ask “What kind of future are you leaving for children and youth like me?” We are amongst the largest stakeholders of civil society but, sadly, continue to be the least represented. The youth of today are aghast at the escalating rate of environmental degradation caused by climate change. Climate change is not a myth, it is the harsh reality of our times. We, the future generations, are under threat of inheriting a barren hot planet that cannot sustain its inhabitants. We cannot and should not remain mute observers of the increasing imbalance among the three pillars of sustainability. Our apathy towards the impacts of climate change can be best summed up in the words of Robert Swan, “The Greatest Threat to Our Planet Is the Belief That Someone Else Will Save It”. Time is not on our side. I want to define my own destiny and that of the future generations. I want to use this platform to implore the member state, civil society and all its stakeholders to stop procrastinating and take action on mitigating climate change , cut carbon emissions, build bridges of sustainability and turn back the clock before it is too late. I want to urge the powers that be, to not to ignore us. I want them to listen to us, involve us, allow us to help in framing the policies that will deliver the future we want. I want to remind them of Mother Teresa’s profound message: “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” | 14 year old Kehkashan, Youth Ambassador of World Future Council & Global Coordinator for Children & Youth at UNEP, is the voice of Future Generations. Since the age of 8, she’s been engaging, educating and empowering young people, particularly girls, in grassroots local action by conducting campaigns & advocacy for climate issues, such as mitigation, adaptation and strengthening resilience. She founded youth organisation,Green Hope UAE, in 2012 with the objective of empowering youth to fight for climate justice & conducts outreach workshops, called “Environment Academies”, where she trains young people to spread awareness about climate change, global warming,harmful effects of carbon emissions,resilience to climate induced disasters, climate refugees & how young people can move towards a more sustainable lifestyle & influence positive climate change by simple activities such as tree planting. In a buildup to COP20, she conducted two simulation workshops, COPinMyCity, where youth learnt about the negotiation process & brought out an outcome document urging governments to cut emission & limit the temperature rise to below 1.5C. With over 800 members, in the Middle East & beyond, Green Hope has planted over 5000 trees, with each member committing to plant a million trees in their lifetime.Her academies have engaged over 3500 youth from over 100 institutions including corporates & government bodies. Her’s is an inspiring story of a young person defining the future | Kehkashan is our Youth Ambassador & a voice of future generations being an active, vocal member of our Climate Energy team. Over the last 6 years, she has travelled extensively, in her pursuit of climate justice, speaking at over 45 international summits, taken part in the New York Climate March & is a trained member of Al Gore’s Climate Leadership Corps. She is UNEP’s Global Coordinator for the Major Group for Children & Youth being the first minor, ever, to be elected into this position. She is a lead ambassador for the MENA Clean Energy School Ambassador Programme, Global Advisory Council member of Young Men for Gender Equality, Sustainability Ambassador for Dubai Municipality, a Climate Reality Leader, Chairperson of the UAE chapter of the International Youth Council, Global Youth Ambassador for A World At School. She is the Founder President of youth organization, GREEN HOPE UAE, through which she empowers youth, mainly girls, in grassroots local action by conducting campaigns & advocacy for climate issues, such as mitigation, adaptation and strengthening resilience. She trains young people to conduct workshops called “Environment Academies” an unique initiative as its run entirely “By youth–For youth”. UN Women recognised her for this unique initiative and invited her to speak at the “Leaders Forum on Climate Change” held in New York on 22nd Sep2014 .The UK Youth Climate Coalition named her as one of the Climate Heroines of 2014. As the youngest member of Middle East Solar, she has been a speaker at its forums as a voice of her youth constituency & part of “WOMEN IN SOLAR” group, which seeks to encourage women in the solar industry. For her work to promote clean energy for a emission free world, she has been chosen as 2015 SOLAR PIONEER making her the youngest ever recipient. She has spoken at over 45 UN and other summits , such as Rio+20,COP18 , World Future Energy Summits, UNEP stakeholder forums, the UN Youth Assembly , UNEA and interventions during HLPF .For her inspiring work , she is the recipient of the 2014 Non Resident Indian of the Year award, the 2014 GESS Award as Ambassador for the Environment, Dubai Municipality’s First Ambassador of Sustainability2014 , 2013 International Young Eco-Hero award from Action for Nature , the 2012 Korea Green Foundation award & an award from UNCCD during Rio+20.She is a prolific, persuasive & knowledgeable speaker as evidenced by the attached youtube link-her speech comes after the first 6 minutes. | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5DsLR34as0 http://www.connect4climate.org/blog/environment-academies-for-climate-justice http://tcktcktck.org/2015/03/marianna-musset-celebrate-these-climate-heroines-on-international-womens-day/66951 http://www.thenational.ae/uae/environment/sharjah-and-dubai-schoolchildren-hold-their-own-un-climate-summit http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/bonn/bonn/bonn-zentrum/13-jaehriges-Wunderkind-setzt-Zeichen-article1078608.html http://www.oneworld.nl/toekomstdenkers/aarde/jongeren-hebben-de-macht-om-de-wereld-te-veranderen?utm_content=buffera4133&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer | www.worldfuturecouncil.org/ | ||||||
128 | 5/15/2015 6:56:22 | Ohienmhen | Damian | SSEA-UNIBEN | Nigeria | Nigerian | Male | 23 | English, French | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Sustainability remains a prominent issue that has influenced national and regional economic development. Several countries have shown a commitment to this framework, while others still stand to benefit from adopting these measures. Despite several attempts to improve power supply, my country and other developing nations suffers the pitfalls of inadequate energy supply, hindering substantial economic growth and development. This limits the economic opportunities available, furthering impoverishment. Only through ambitious sustainable power and energy generation schemes, developing nations can achieve economic and national developmental goals to improve the lives of citizens in the form of job creation and improved power supply. I want to use this platform to draw attention to the need for sustainable energy and call for renewed commitment and participation from both developing and developed nations in order that the full benefits derived from climate action though a sustainability framework may be achieved. Demonstrating the cost effectiveness of sustainable energy approaches is also one of my key motivations to speak. Clearing the impression that sustainable energy practices are not ‘cost effective’ will accelerate policies that are geared in that direction. Overcoming the ever-present political resistance to this approach can be achieved by describing the long term benefits of climate action. The youth play an integral role in this movement by applying their skills and leadership towards eradicating energy poverty. | We engaged on an ambitious campaign to provide alternative energy sources in rural communities with the hope of scaling up these enterprises and boosting energy supply. Estimates show about 60% of Nigeria’s 170 million people are not connected to the national grid. Many of these people are concentrated in rural areas. Our Biogas Initiative seeks to address this by promoting energy generation through the use of non-conventional resources with the goal of boosting energy supply and generation. Working in collaboration with local farmers within the state, our team developed two pilot-scale biogas digesters enclosed with masonry work with a conduit connected directly to their households. Using raw materials such as food remains and animal manure, originally, we developed working biogas digesters in these communities. Cooking with the gases produced proved a better substitute to their conventional wood burning stoves. The World Health Organization estimates 98,000 Nigerian women die every year from the use of firewood, therefore we saw the imperative to scale up our initiative. Using the data obtained from the installed biogas pits, we developed a pilot scale design for a Biogas Production and Purification Plant, enabling farmers with even limited education to run these facilities. We carried out an extensive market survey and are actively campaigning for funds to make this project a reality. It is our desire to construct at least 10 of these facilities in the next five years with the hope of improving the energy profile in the country to generate thousands of jobs each year. | Damian has demonstrated a great sense of resolve and commitment towards the sustainability and climate action movement. His motivations stem from his unique surroundings where constant power and energy supply remains elusive. His lifelong dream of seeing the eradication of energy poverty at all levels was born from these circumstances. His greatest motivation stems from watching his mother’s unsuccessful attempts to establish a bakery. Her ambition like several others are cut short due to incessant power cuts in his country, forcing her to work every day alone, in the early hours of the morning when there is a small guarantee for power supply. This in turn has limited her ability to scale up her business. Damian continues to dedicate his time towards applying innovation to various projects designed to address climate change. One of his successful projects includes the design of a gas cooker while in high school which ran on syngas produced from saw dust. He became deeply involved in Global Energy Initiative after emerging as a finalist in our worldwide essay competition titled, ‘’A Vision for the Decade (2014-2024) of Sustainable Energy for All.’’ Since then, he has gone further to promote GEI’s vision for energy equality and sustainability through the establishment of Students for Sustainable Energy for All (SSEA) at the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Nigeria. Under his leadership, SSEA-UNIBEN has shown tremendous success in promoting sustainability through workshops and seminars designed to educate young people on the need for climate action. Presentations at these platforms require a deep understanding of climate change mitigation and regional political resistance against it. Damian's ability to inspire young people at these forums has boosted their ranks and seen the growth of our student chapters around the world. Damian's desire to rid the world of energy poverty has continued to shine forth in his recent projects. The Biogas Initiative is a project inspired by him to boost sustainable energy practices and push the agenda of climate action to the forefront of government policies. He continues to hold the belief that the crisis of energy poverty in his country and others like it will become a thing of the past once sustainability becomes an integrated concept in all aspects of human planning. He has recently completed his university degree program in Chemical Engineering with honours and is eager to share his experience and progress towards climate change mitigation with a global audience. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KlHIKoZPi7YTlWaFhZVTlBLUk/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KlHIKoZPi7UmFkMXZwdGZhczg/view?usp=sharing | http://globalenergyinitiative.org/students-for-sustainable-energy-for-all.html | |||||
129 | 5/15/2015 9:18:46 | Gehle | Courtney | South African Climate Action Netowrk (SA CAN) | South Africa | South African | Female | 20 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I would like the opportunity address the members of the United Nations General Assembly because I would like to inspire and renew the energy of the people listening. I would like to share electrifying stories of what is happening at grass roots level in terms of green development and the people’s climate movement. I would like to provoke people to become more sustainable by telling them about the daily milestones being reached within budding green economies and in the perceptions and actions of people in developing countries. I want to have the opportunity to reach as many people that I can with the message that becoming sustainable is fun, easy, exciting and so worth it! I would like to explain why I have not and why I will not lose hope that we will overcome this crisis. The battle is far from over and we are not alone, the world is uniting behind us. Businesses, organisations and individuals are starting to see the economic, health and social benefits of staying below the 2 degree limit. If we keep pushing a little bit longer, we will see a global shift towards a greener future, the future that we want, so keep pushing! My generation stands to feel some of the worst impacts of climate change and I would rather face the challenge of beating climate change head on than having to face my children in shame and explain how I did not do all that I could to fight for their future. | I organised an event for Global Divestment Day to help launch the international campaign urging businesses, organisations and individuals to move their money away from fossil fuel investments and towards renewables. I organised was a photo action (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2x4FQMLL4LWbENwbEZSS0lOSmc/view?usp=sharing) where I got members from my community to pose for a photo outside the office of our president to call South Africa to divest. My event was covered by SABC News and SABC Radio and was in conjunction with events organised by other CSO’s, so our message was heard across South Africa. Moving your money from fossil fuels, or better yet, pressuring your bank to move away from fossil fuels s is one way in which we can make a big impact. Our actions have prompted one of South Africa’s leading banks to rethink their investment strategy and I am currently working with my university to create a plan for their divestment from fossil fuel investments. As the world has just reached a new mile stone of 400ppm of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, this campaign could not have come at a more appropriate time. Economically, investment in renewable energy has led to increased job creation throughout the developing world, especially for women within the solar industry. Pollution from fossil fuels has been proved to have a negative impact on our health and so by encouraging investment in renewables, we can create a healthier environment with better air quality. | Courtney is a student studying a BSc in Geography with a focus on sustainability. She is leading the climate movement within her university and in her community. She works with several Civil Society Organisations across South Africa to tackle issues relating to climate change, namely: 350.org, South African Climate Action Network (SA CAN), Fossil Free Africa, Fossil Free South Africa, Project 90 by 2030 and the YouLead Collective. Her passion, energy and hope relating to issues on climate change are infectious and commendable. She is co-founder and vice-chairperson of the environmental society on her campus, The Greenline (https://www.facebook.com/thegreenlineUP), which is working to connect disciplines on issues of sustainability and innovation with regards to environmental issues. She is in charge of liaising between University Residence and campus Facilities Management to transition the residences to a more climate friendly operation. She also is working with Facilities Management to launch the campus recycling initiative. 1) Courtney’s role within SA CAN specifically is representing their interests and organising events on their behalf in her area in conjunction with national efforts. 2) Courtney meets the criteria listed above. With regards to her ability to address the relevant topics and guiding questions in the concept note; she has good overall knowledge of the topics discussed and her tenacious nature will ensure that she will learn that which she does not. Courtney has communication skills that are uncommon in someone her age. She is able to engage effectively with any sort of person, no matter what their age or position. I have not had a chance to hear Courtney speak publicly, but from my observations of her personality and through reading a review from someone who has heard her speak on many occasions (Pieter van Zyl – gave a description of her speaking ability), I believe she would be a compelling speaker indeed! As far as I have been told, Courtney is available to travel on the dates in question and would be able to access a visa. 3) Courtney was a member of her schools Toastmasters society and so she has had formal training in public speaking. She is a confident, well spoken young lady who, I believe, has had substantial experience speaking publicly and who is at ease within a crowd or in front of a large group. Courtney has also taken part in Model United Nations and therefore is familiar with the procedures within the UN. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2x4FQMLL4LWQ3QxY2Q1TWllUGc/view?usp=sharing To whom this may concern, In all my years as a teacher I have seldom come across a person, who is as able as Courtney, who can communicate with passion, sincerity and in such an elegant way. She is one of the few speakers who burns with an unyielding fire and sets an audience alight with her insight and understanding of the world and environmental issues. Courtney is a skilled orator and distinguished herself in my English class, on the school stage and as a member of Toastmasters. She was able to argue logically and support her views with insight seldom found in students today. Her views of the world are mature and well-rounded and she is able to communicate and respond in any setting. I am sure that she would meet your every expectation, especially talking on about a subject such as this, a subject she is passionate about. Yours Faithfully, Pieter van Zyl - pvanzyl@uplandscollege.org - +27717765065 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2x4FQMLL4LWUUFkSlVCZDFUZEk/view?usp=sharing | http://www.climatenetwork.org/category/region/south-africa | |||||
130 | 5/15/2015 9:55:46 | Wewerinke | Margaretha | University of the South Pacific | Vanuatu | Dutch | Female | 31 | English and Dutch | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | To help convey the urgency of taking global action on the best avialable science and existing international law to address the adverse consequences of climate change based. | Ms Wewerinke undertook crucial advocacy to draw attention to the role of climate change to the vulnerability of people to natural disasters whose impact is often increased by climate chnage. She was living and teaching in Vanuatu when tropical storm PAM struck the island and helped to draw attention to the plight of the people of Vanautu people after they were hit by hurricane PAM and the need for climate chnage resilience for the Island. | Dr. Margaretha Wewerinke is a lecture at the University of the South Pacific and an expert in international climate change law and international human rights law. Dr. Wewerinke holds a Ph.D. and LL.M. from the European University Institute (Florence, Italy); a European Master’s Degree in Human Rights and Democratisation from the European Inter-University Centre for Human Rights and Democratisation (Venice, Italy); a Graduate LL.B. from Nottingham Law School (Nottingham/London, UK); and a B.A. (Philosophy) and a B.Sc. (Cultural Anthropology & Development Studies) from the Radboud University (Nijmegen, the Netherlands). She is also a Barrister of Gray’s Inn (London, UK). She has significant public speaking experience. Her recent research has dealt the effects of climate change on human rights, on the role of international law in equitable and sustainable development. She has written on legal issues relating to sustainable development, international law and human rights in academic journals including the Chinese Journal of International Law and Human Rights & International Legal Discourse, and contributed chapters to several peer-reviewed books. She has written working papers for the South Centre in Geneva, the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Governance and Human Rights, and the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR). She was a Visiting Scholar to the University of Cambridge’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law (LCIL) in 2012-2013 and to 4CMR in 2013. While in Cambridge, she lectured at the Faculty of Law and the Department of Land Economy. She remains affiliated with 4CMR. Dr. Wewerinke has been involved in multilateral processes related to sustainable development and human rights, in different capacities, since 2007. She has advised governments on questions of international law at climate negotiations under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and provided input on international climate change law to the UN Human Rights Council and at the UN General Assembly on behalf of different non-governmental organisations. She has collaborated extensively with civil society groups, lawyers, academics and movements in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific, both internationally and on initiatives to strengthen local capacity. She designed and taught a capacity building workshop on the added value of a human rights approach to climate change for Pacific Island countries at USP’s PaCE-SD in 2011. | For Dr. Wewerinke's curriculum vitae please see: http://www.4cmr.group.cam.ac.uk/directory/mw586 | https://www.usp.ac.fj/ | ||||||
131 | 5/15/2015 11:57:08 | Moyo | Shannon Caryn | Environment Africa / Victoria Falls Green Fund | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwean | Female | 20years | English, Shona, Ndebele, Nambya | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As a youth, today and tomorrow's leader, I want to challenge my fellow counterparts that Climate Change is our responsibility and it is us who have to take the first stand into combating it. I also want to point out that there are several activities that can be done to raise awareness on climate change referring to my past experiences which were a great success, for example, the Earth Hour commemorations and environmental talks mentioned earlier. I would like to create some networking opportunities between young people and the decision makers in order to come up with strategies that can help us combat Climate Change and lobby the developed countries to eliminate or reduce activities that enhance Climate Change. | I am the coordinator of a youth-led organisation known as the Zimbabwe Youth Environment Network. As young people we have conducted various activities on climate change including sports tournaments, environmental awareness raising talks for in and out of school youth and children. We have used sports tournaments as a tool to raise awareness on the impacts of climate change and after the tournaments, group discussions were conducted to find out how young people can be involved in combating climate change, ways of adapting to climate change and sharing knowledge on the indigenous systems that can be used to adapt to climate change. Environmental education in schools have also been conducted where young school children were addressed on how best they can contribute in eradication of climate change. As young people we have engaged the traditional leadership to hear their views and strategies towards adapting to climate change, these platforms have helped a lot since we have managed to identify the gap between the young and old generations and has helped us to identify ways and strategies to adapt to climate change as a community. I also facilitate the commemoration of local, national and global environmental global events, with the help of other youth I organised the 2015 Earth hour event which was conducted between 8pm and 9pm in Victoria Falls on the 28th of March 2015. The main aim of the event was to educate the community on the impacts of climate change and how best we can work together towards combating it. | Shannon Caryn Moyo is a 20year-old young lady with a passion in environmental issues and business. She is currently volunteering with Environment Africa under the Victoria Falls Green Fund project. Her main role is coordination of the organisation's youth and children's programme. Shannon is a good public speaker, possesses good facilitation skills and she has the strength to influence young people to be part of decision-making processes. She is a role model to other youth since she has proved to them that even without resources, someone can make a difference in his or her society. Shannon has potential to even present matters affecting young people in the community to the local leadership hence we do not hesitate to nominate her to represent the organisation and other young people in the event on climate change . As an organisation we believe that if she is entrusted with this opportunity she can serve as an instrument for change, she can influence the decision-makers and other key people in taking positive action within their societies. | http://www.environmentafrica.org/ | |||||||
132 | 5/15/2015 14:14:18 | Tapias | Estefania | Climate-KIC | Switzerland | Colombian | Female | 26 | Spanish, Englis and Italian | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The purpose of this event is “to highlight the world's leading initiatives on tackling this global challenge” before COP 21 in Paris. Because of this, I believe this is the perfect opportunity, not only to “inspire the world to find a more sustainable path” but also to reach the young communities around the world and motivate them to search for opportunities to become change-agents. I also would like to highlight the importance of combining education, research and innovation with entrepreneurial activities, not only to combat climate-change in smart and innovative ways, but also to enhance the creation of job opportunities around the world. There are no boundaries when people are inspired to get involved in the fight against climate-change, and because of this, my purpose in life is to contribute as much as possible to inspire and support change-makers around the world. | My story is divided into two actions; (i) I am currently a PhD candidate at ETH Zurich in Switzerland. My doctoral research is focus on the exploration of climate-sensitive urban planning solutions. Because I have always been committed to give back something of value to my nation, I selected a city in my country of origin as case-study. For my research, I am working together with a local university developing climate-friendly strategies for the design and planning of the city. I believe that this approach can bring new insights to city planning based on climate-change adaptation measures. (ii) Since the Climate-KIC Alumni Association was founded, I have been an active member helping shape the association and supporting the community. In 2014 I was elected President. My main purpose is to maintain and develop activities that encourage and empower our members to keep pushing boundaries in the fight against climate change, through entrepreneurship and innovation. I am not only committed to work for the improvement of a more liveable and climate-friendly city in Colombia, but I also to lead, inspire and motivate a European community of innovators and entrepreneurs to find solutions towards a climate-resilient society. I believe that to be able to become change-makers we have to cooperate with as much like-minded people as possible around the world, because in the end climate-change is not a local or European problem but a global one. | Estefania Tapias is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at ETH Zurich, and the elected President of the Climate-KIC Alumni Association. Estefania was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1988. After finishing her Architecture degree in 2010, she moved to Turin, Italy to complete her MSc in Sustainable Architecture. Since 2012 she lives in Zurich, Switzerland where she is working on her doctoral studies. She is enrolled at ETH Zurich in the Department of Architecture under the Chair of Information Architecture; a research team that aims to develop visual methods for the analysis, design and simulation of urban systems for a sustainable future. Her doctoral research is focus on the study of outdoor thermal conform for the design of open spaces in topical cities. Estefania is also part of the PhD label program of Climate-KIC; Europe’s largest public-private innovation partnership, working to address the challenge of climate change. For her research, Estefania selected a case study area in her country of origin as she has been always committed to give back something of value to her country. She is currently working together with a local university developing climate-friendly strategies for urban design and planning. Apart from her research, Estefania is part of the teaching team of the ‘Future Cities’ Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) series offer by ETH Zurich in the Edx online platform. The aim of these series of MOOCs is to understand city’s people, components, functions, scales and dynamics, as precondition for its sustainable design and management. Additionally, Estefania volunteers as President of the Climate-KIC Alumni Association (CKAA). The CKAA is a European society of professionals from an interdisciplinary network founded to inspire the entrepreneurial soul in Europe to create a climate-resilient society. The CKAA activities enable and facilitate the transfer of knowledge and skills within the community and beyond, aiming to encourage its members to keep pushing boundaries in the mitigation and adaptation of climate change. Because of the aforementioned activities, Estefania has become a confident public speaker. In May 2015 she was invited to act as a speaker in the EIT Innovation Forum. Since November 2014, Estefania has been publicly representing the CKAA in different events around Europe, in places such as Lisbon, Helsinki, Budapest, London and Zurich. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwmq8r5EQWVoREgtblBsTFFJYW8/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwmq8r5EQWVob09RNTB0VFg4d28/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
133 | 5/15/2015 15:55:22 | Shahbaz | Ali | Taking IT Global | Pakistan | Pakistani | Male | 18 | English, Urdu/Hindi, Arabic (reading and writing), French (preliminary) | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Having worked as a youth delegate to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable, a Youth Ambassador for various national and international entities, and an advocate for intergenerational justice on a local level, I have developed an informed understanding the trans-disciplinary nature of global crises such as climate change, in addition to enhancing oratory skills to deliver these key messages in an approachable language. Hence, my international outlook juxtaposed with local outreach renders me a unique position to share pertinent climate narratives that have not yet been centered on the world stage.I have faced tremendous resistance as a campaigner for Climate Change and this speaking opportunity is essential to share these experiences familiarising the global community with the challenges youth advocates encounter on the road to inclusive climate development. For me, the most indispensable prerequisite of this PGA event on Climate Change is having a personalized voice for Climate that connects the grassroots with the global arena and bridges the communication between local communities and international platforms Adhering to the notion, I believe that given my expertise as a committed advocate for climate justice over the past years, my voice at the event will not solely be my own, but a collective representation of youth across the communities, regions, and affiliations that I represent. And this is exactly what a momentous climate movement needs: shared voices. | In 2013, I developed a strong motivation to act locally to while thinking globally in our fight against climate change, resorting to a local capacity building initaitive , called “Climate for All”, a stakeholder-assisted initiative, the first of its kind in Pakistan, to strengthen cooperation between interest groups in the region for a cohesive, grass-root level adaptation to climate change. I started with a group of environmentalists, trying to lobby for local climate awareness in our municipality. Our involvement has expanded: in the last two years, we have particularly involved marginalized communities such as youth, women, religious minorities and indigenous groups to put them on the forefront of climate justice. We have engaged with rural communities in Punjab that are most vulnerable to climate change due to their dependence upon agrarian livelihoods. Additionally, we are currently forming a simplified ‘Climate handbook’ for the local masses in Pakistan in native languages, as a toolkit for climate change. The handbook is based upon the principles of ‘Education for Sustainable Development’ and includes themes of health, Disaster-Risk Reduction, employment, and social dynamics in adherence with climate action. It is due to be published later this year.While our outreach continues to diversify, we are certain that C4A must not take shape of an NGO; we are committed to maintaining it as a local movement, a mass-consciousness for climate resilience and capacity building. | As a Youth Goodwill Ambassador of various national and international entities, Mr.Ali Shahbaz have had the opportunity to represent Pakistan officially at key United Nations Agencies, most notably the UN Commission on Sustainable Development, Rio+20; United Nations Environmental Program, UNESCAP, UNFCCC, and UNDP. Well versed in diplomacy, Mr. Shahbaz is an excellent orator and has aptly represented his constituents at numerous forums as keynote speaker, discussant and panelist. Mr.Shahbaz’s focus of work includes three key niches: Sustainable development; Climate Change; and Intergenerational Justice. Under these three themes, he continue to engage with various stakeholders, ranging from UN agencies and Governments to the civil society and grass-root organisations. He has been part of several Government delegations to international socio-political and economic meetings, both as a youth envoy and a specialist on adaptation mechanisms for climate justice. In 2013, he was appointed as a Youth Climate Focal Point in the Parliamentary Planning Commission of Pakistan. He is also leading “Climate for All”, a project that involves capacity building of local communities in Pakistan. Also, Mr.Shahbaz is a correspondent of the UNFCCC negotiations from Pakistan and is a lobbyist for intergeneration justice within the provisions of the 2015 Climate Treaty. Having started at the age of 14, Mr.Shahbaz has committed passionately to the global Climate movement. He has not only appealed to the international political dynamics at the UN but has also approached local groups to instill a better understanding of climate. From the Fevellas in Rio to the Slums in Nairobi to the Souks of Marrakesh and the villages of Pakistan, he has made genuine attempts to give a voice to the unheard. And on account of his work, Mr.Shahbaz was awarded by Reader’s Digest Asia an Honorable Mention for “Asian of the Year” 2012. Mr. Ali Shahbaz’s journey for Climate campaigning was met with tremendous opposition; he had to face hostile traditional political elements, along with brutal backlash as a young representative empowering marginalized individuals. Giving him an opportunity to share his views at the PGA event will allow the global community to better familiarize with the challenges he faced as a Climate Justice advocate. His unparalleled charisma, sincere commitment, and innovative insights will truly be a valuable asset at the PGA event on Climate Change. | Ali's speech at a National Consultation on Green Economy www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFkEAOa6olI Ali's speech starts at 2:11:00 on the following link: http://webtv.un.org/watch/part-2-strengthening-cooperation-between-the-un-and-regional-and-sub-regional-organizations-general-assembly-high-level-thematic-debate/4217897403001 | Please Google: "Ali Shahbaz Youth Delegate" to review his profile. | Already funded to participate in the PGA's 4 May High-level Event on Strengthening Cooperation | |||||
134 | 5/15/2015 17:08:26 | cordova | andrea | ups | ecuador | ecuatoriana | quito | 23 | español | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | me gustaria aplicar para participar ya que las ideas de los jovenes son sumamente importantes en las decisiones mundiales y el conocimiento es lo que debe primordiar asi que teniendo en cuenta que las organizaciones tienen la responsabilidad de promover recursos para que el conocimiento cresca pienso que esta es una buena oportunidad para participar GOOGLE TRANSLATE I would like to apply to participate since the ideas of young people are extremely important in global decisions and knowledge is what must primordiar so considering that organizations have a responsibility to promote resources for the knowledge cresca think this is an opportunity to participate | soy estudiante de ingenieria ambiental en ecuador mi accion en este proceso para el cambio climaico va orientado hacia el aspecto socio ambiental me parece que el cambio en un pais como ecuador tiene que ir ligado al cambio de la mentalidda en el momento de la produccion y el repeto con el ambiente no solo dejando de explotar sino mas bien aplicando con la ciencia y la conciencia local GOOGLE TRANSLATE I am a student of environmental engineering in Ecuador my action in this process for change climaico is oriented towards socio-environmental aspect I think the change in a country like Ecuador has to be linked to the change of the mentalidda at the time of production and repeto with the environment not only failing to explode but rather applying science and local awareness | soy ecuatoriana del 92 mi familia es de 5 personas que aunque somos de clase media mis padres siempre se han esforzado por hacernos felices a mi y amis hermanos no solo en el aspectoeconomico sino ver mas alla de las cosas en el aspecto espiritual cultural y cientifico de lo cual en estos momentos estoy cursando mis esudios universitario en este momento vivo sola ya qu emi esposo vive en francia por que se encuentra estudiando por que el gobierno de mi pais le otorgo una beca . GOOGLE TRANSLATE I am Ecuadorian of 92 my family is 5 people that although we are middle class my parents have always strived to make us happy me and amis brothers not only in the aspectoeconomico but see beyond things in the cultural and scientific spiritual aspect of which at the moment I am studying my university esudios live in this single moment and what emi husband lives in France that is studying why the government of my country awarded him a scholarship. | https://www.facebook.com/groups/821566021219534/894798473896288/?notif_t=group_activity | |||||||
135 | 5/15/2015 18:42:05 | Saad | Ahmed | Agriculture Research Center | ُEgypt | Egyptian | male | 29 | Arabic,English and Frech | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | This is an opportunity to tell Member States, Government Ministers, high-level participants, and other representatives about how i am succeeding in taking climate action. | I am coordinator on project entitled: Agricultural water productivity as adaptation to climate change(AWP-ACC) , this project was funded by giz agency . the programme works onthe local level to increase the resilience of farmers and on thenational level to improve national frame work conditions with regard to climate change adaptability. | Dr. A.Saad has a good field experience in crop water requirements, agro-meteorology studies, irrigation scheduling, climate change studies and models. He is working in applied research topics related to climate change adaptation and improving crop water productivity using international models such as ( AquaCrop,DSSAT,Apsim and CropSyst). He therefore wishes to submit his application to be considered for attending Postdoctoral Fellowship in University Sains Malaysia (USM). He is a hard working researcher and performs well under pressure, a mature researcher, independent, bright and genuine. - can address the relevant topics and guiding questions in the event concept note. - has demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders. -would be a compelling public speaker. - Also, he has a valid visa to USA till 20/09/2015 | www.sweri-eg.com/ | |||||||
136 | 5/15/2015 21:29:40 | Meisen | Peter | Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) | United States | US | Male | 62 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | We have developed several local initiatives that are driving the transition to renewables, which is essential as we develop plans to mitigate and adapt to climate change consequences. Every community needs to be doing the same kind of work: Our Global Classroom: "Geodesign: Engineering the Transition to Renewable Energy and Clean Water for All." 20 international interns - 12 week program Impact: Interns develop, publish online and deliver to San Diego and several other cities, a plan of action including GIS maps, options for decision-makers, and cost-comparisons. 100% Renewable San Diego We are leading a new collaborative effort to make our City energy resources 100% clean and renewable. Impact: creating a Road Map to help Cities to make the transition to clean energy at an accelerated pace. Then offer a template for other cities around the world to follow The Green Scene The SimCenter hosts monthly public gatherings of “subject matter experts,” non-profit, government and business leaders, and diverse residents to learn about our region’s most urgent quality of life issues. Often paired with a documentary film on a related topic, the Green Scene cultivates environmental literacy and informed action in our region. Impact: We are making our city the "hub" for sustainability awareness, insight and action. (San Diego is #2 solar City in U.S.) Renewable Road-Maps We develop Executive Summary reports for nations around the world, demonstrating the renewable energy potential of their region. Impact: Catalyze every nation to develop their own 100% renewable Road Map. | For 25 years, the Global Energy Network Institute (GENI) has conducted research, education and pushed policy-makers to accelerate the update of renewable energy resources --linking solar, wind hydro and geothermal resources between regions and nations. This solution is now being advocated on every continent as a solution to climate change and sustainable development. GENI has published 30 national Roadmaps that show how a nation can make the transition to 100% renewable energy to meet their electricity requirements. Today, 145 nations have renewable development plans -- and several have pledged to reach the 100% goal. In 2005, President Bush declared the US would complete its national grid, and two months later China pledged to do the same. In the past decade, solar and wind have become the fastest growing energy resources, capturing 50%+ market share in the U.S. and Europe. Yet these renewables remain just 5% of global supply, GENI decided more was needed -- and launched the World Resources Simulation Center (SimCenter). The SimCenter is a surround visualization facility in San Diego that encourages collaborative problem solving. It's mission is to visualize sustainable solutions to global and local problems so we make informed choices quicker. The SimCenter accelerates solutions. We know that global problems and trends, climate change and population growth, have very real local consequences. The SimCenter has become a local hub for many numerous initiatives that are caused globally. Together we are stronger. | Peter Meisen founded the Global Network Institute (GENI.org) in 1991 conduct research and education on the interconnection of electric networks between nations with an emphasis on tapping abundant renewable energy resources around the world. This is the premier global strategy from the World Game simulation developed by visionary engineer Buckminster Fuller. The GENI initiative has earned the endorsements of 7 Nobel Peace Laureates, and newsman Walter Cronkite calling it “the best solution to peace and sustainable development he’s seen.” Past and current UNEP Directors, Noel Brown and Achim Steiner, have given strong support to this renewable energy solution. Currently, Peter works with interns from around the world on the topic: how national economies can convert their energy system to 100% renewable quickly. Expanding on their work, GENI hss developed the World Resources Simulation Center (SimCenter) www.wrsc.org to visualize sustainable solutions to global and local problems so we make more informed choices quicker. Located in San Diego, the SimCenter is an immersive visualization facility designed for collaborative problem solving and accelerated understanding. | From our Youtube Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K1FATJK2rg Peter Meisen at "Franchise for Humanity", Stanford University. 2015 Starts a bit slow during initial questions, then gets deep into the critical issues we face and talks about the GENI initiative to link renewables (solar, wind,hydro and geothermal) between regions and continents Several organizations have stated that we have "only a few years" to make the shift to clean energy - or suffer dire consequences (IEA, Dec 2011). There is no time to waste. Every city and state needs to make their plan and begin this transition now. | Additional material on Mr. Meisen: GENI has earned 7 Nobel Peace Prize Laureates endorsements Walter Cronkite's endorsement Featured cover stories: IEEE Power Engineering Review New Scientist (UK) China World Power Economist on-line Energy Debate Other information: Peter was Born in Oceanside, CA School: Miracosta College, UCSD grad (AMES 1975) Committed to making a difference | www.geni.org | |||||
137 | 5/15/2015 22:05:31 | Ono | Koume | Ritsumeikan University | Japan | Mexico | Female | 20 | Spanish, English, Portugues and Japanese | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Because as i mentioned in the previous question, i believe i can change the world, i want to make the difference. I want to learn from this experience as much as a I can so I can focus my knowledge in changing the world and creating conscious on people little by little. | I believe that in order to change the world we need to start from somewhere, and improve little by little. So when i was in high school I decided to start this change in my own community and spread it to the whole school, after that to the whole city. Some volunteers started to go on the weekends to clean the local park and beach, after that more and more people started going people we did not even know. When this became viral, I was called to give a radio interview in which one I tried to create conscious on people so they will have more respect to the earth and not throwing garbage everywhere, recycling, and nowadays the project is it still going on. | My name is Koume Ono, I am half mexican and half Japanese, I lived most of my life in Mexico but I am currently studying in Japan. I was elected to be president of my seminar and had to give a speech in Japanese and English infront of almost my whole faculty which is international relations, so I have no problems when it comes to public speaking, i like my voice to be heard because i believe that is how you make people start thinking about issues all over the world. | ||||||||
138 | 5/15/2015 23:33:15 | Queblatin | Sarah | Global Ecovillage Network, United Religions Initiative | Philippines | Philippines | Female | 32 | English, Tagalog, Visayan | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I responded to climate change as a Psycho-Social Support art therapist for survivors. I come from stories of refugees who experienced the unexpected loss of life, homes, and dreams. Integrating the psychology of healing and transformation as a regenerative systems designer, I wish to share how communities designing solutions inspired by their relationship with earth can make more sustainable impact recovering not just as victims into survivors but as thrivers.Through the spirit of earth wisdom across beliefs, I wish to inspire the remembrance of our sacred earth to catalyse our efforts to change our future story. I wish to share stories of hope where the power of small acts, contribute largely as an interdependent ecosystem. | Since Typhoon Ketsana struck in the Philippines in 2009, I have been exploring ways we can respond to disasters limiting the same practices that caused climate change in the first place. It then evolved into an ecovillage and permaculture response for a village affected Typhoon Haiyan, the strongest storm on global record to date. Currently, I am about to start resilient ecovillage design where we empower their young people as future storytellers and climate leaders. Globally, I am helping activate a mapping of whole systems response to disasters and conflict with the lowest carbon footprint possible while empowering solutions that prevent further climate change from happening. I am also engaged in interfaith and intercultural dimensions of climate change through several networks to envision ways we can use the power of story weaving communities of practice learning from each other across the globe. In conflict affected areas I have worked with, I am designing a learning journey for youth to learn food security, waste management, renewable energy, and creative placemaking as peacemaking to inspire resilience in action in their communities. | I currently serve as Philippines Country Representative and as Network and Outreach Coordinator supporting the United Nations Working group of the Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), an umbrella organisation for ecovillages, transition town initiatives, intentional communities, and ecologically-minded individuals worldwide. Under GEN, I co-active an emerging global mapping of whole systems designed disaster and conflict response around the world called EmerGENcies Protocol, considered as one of the Projects of Promise for 2015 by the Kosmos Journal. I am a member of the Environmental Resource Network for the United Religions Initiative, a global grassroots led interfaith movement across 85 countries. I was also invited as part of the core planning team for the Inter-Religious Climate and Ecology Network, a pan-asia network of faith based climate change advocacy. With these networks supporting a growing movement and pilgrimage towards climate justice, I am helping inspire story based learning exchange systems where best practices can be exchanged and inspired across partner communities. I am 32 years old actively engaged in responding and preventing climate change in my country for the last 10 years in various contexts from cultural heritage, peace building, environmental education, and humanitarian assistance. As a citizen of the Philippines, one of the highly climate vulnerable countries in the world, I speak for a present and future generation that seeks hope and resilience so we can move beyond survivors but as thrivers in the gloomy backdrop of climate change. In the past, I have been interviewed in television on a renewable energy campaign and on tree cutting in the city. I have spoken in public through conferences and events. Last March, I spoke to 300 philantrophists and donors for a Fundraiser Gala by the United Religions Initiative sharing my work in interfaith and ecology. I also spoke in homes, classrooms, and conference rooms in some cities in the United States bridging the climate relationship between developed and developing countries in terms of lifestyle and consumption. This month, I moderated a workshop on disasters during the 2nd Inter Religious and Climate Ecology Conference in Seoul to 20 climate leaders. I am prepared to share the voices of climate refugees not as victims but their stories of resilience. I can speak about sacred stewardship to the earth as our survival depends on it while inviting the world in future thinking. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-fqip3TbzkrOXZnNlRPbVNlVHM/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-fqip3TbzkrYjViV1Rya3pueEU/view?usp=sharing | www.gen.ecovillage.org, www.uri.org | |||||
139 | 5/16/2015 2:57:14 | Antwi sarpong | hammond | black heritage plc | ghana | ghana | male | 23 | english | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | speaking at this event will help me drum home the fierce urgency of npw to safeguard our forest from destruction. i want to tell the world tto come together and find pragmatic solutions to deforestation and illegal log exports. this is a bigger platform i hope to use in communicating my message. i will be showing the world horrid pictures of how desforestation thas brought onto the lives of people in Ghana and Africa as a whole | i have been part of the local red cross team that embarked on 50 tree planting on campus as wind breaks,shades for students and as a way of protecting the enviroment. i also join the Global Impact efforts of planting trees across the world. here in Upper west region of Ghana,myself and my team members planted 10 trees each in four surrounding communities. all this we believed is a sustainable approach of protecting the environment and safeguarding our forest. Plans are also underway for an expansive tree planting exercise and community focus discussoons of the effects of deforestation and chacoal burning which is prevalent here in Upper West Region of Ghana | my name is antwi sarpong hammond,A Ghanaian by birth and a residence of upper wrst region of Ghana.I am 23 year old student of university for development studies (Wa Campus). i am in my final year at the university reading intergrated community development. i am the CEO of a youth base group,BLACK HERITAGE PLC(www.blackheritageplc.webs.com) over the years i have spoken at various seminars and workshop organized on campus by my organization and other bodies. in 2013,i was nominated to present a on Youth Developmenr at the Kilombo center for citizenship and conflict resolution congress in Ghana. i am the speaker for my university youth parliament and all this has given my lots of experiences.i am passionate about community development and sustainable solutions to identified problems. i trust myself and of high conviction that being part of this congress will be great an experience for me. | blackheritageplc.webs.com | |||||||
140 | 5/16/2015 7:19:03 | Nguyen | Ngoc Minh Tu | VietAbroader Club | Viet Nam | Vietnamese | Male | 17 | Vietnamese, English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The first time when I heard the term '' climate change'', it was not a big problem. The world temperature is rising for 1 degree , the ice in the pole is melting down and some trees are being cut down for industrial purposes. Everything was just somebody’s problem in some distant countries that has no effect on me. But two years ago, that thinking was changed when I noticed that there are more floods, droughts and storms in my country than there were. I realize, climate change is all the floods, all the droughts and all the storms that the people in my country are enduring. The whole world is enduring. But how much time should we continue to endure? No more time. I feel like I need to express the demand of all the people who are concern about climate change, especially the youth, to the leaders of the world to show them that, our generation have the vital will to fulfill the wish of the people who are enduring around the world: to find a more sustainable path for our industrial developments so that no one in the future generations have to endure anymore. I want to be one of the voice that are calling governments of every country in the entire world to agree on a set of standards in dealing with the climate change problem. I, a member of a developing country that is affected by climate change, will be unspeakably proud if I have the opportunity to share my ideas and convincing different countries around the world to pay more attention to the problem of climate change. | In January 2015, there was a protest going on in Ha Noi. The government decided to cut off some trees in the streets,. As the governors stated, the trees were destroying the electricity cable, so they decided to put down over 6000 trees and replace them with smaller and more suitable new trees. Ever since I first heard about the term ‘’ climate change ‘’, I am trying to do more to prevent it. In the protest mentioned earlier, because of the geographical distant for me , I cannot attend it. However, I used every means I could possibly reach to express my dispute on the idea along with the people in my country: I shared it with my friends for more people to join the protest, I researched about the laws that could forbid the act of cutting down trees and I tried to contact with my friends in Ha Noi to know about the situation everyday. . After the idea was eliminated, I joined a session of tree planting right where I live in. It was a wonderful experience, being with the people with the same concern about how the changes we made could help tackle the problem of climate change. I believe that the key to resolve this problem we are all facing with is to listen to the people with the same concerns. The world need to follow the same set of rules in dealing with this problem. The trees that I planted in Ho Chi Minh and the trees that were saved in Ha Noi are all making a different, little by little. A small act, like mine, altogether could create a big change. | Nguyen Ngoc Minh Tu was born in the 25th of January, 1998 in a small town named Tây Ninh in the South East region of Viet Nam. His father is a official, while his mother is a employee for a private company. He has a sister that is four years older than him. He is interested in the natural subjects such as: Math, Physics and Chemistry and have obtained the gold medal of the national competition of Solving Mathematics Problems By Calculator held in March, 2013. He then move to live in Ho Chi Minh city to continue his higher education in High School For The Gifted - VietNam National Universities as a member of the Math specialize class. He have been an active youth member of several organizations such as: VietAbroader Club ( an subproject of VietAbroader Organization which train the youth for necessary soft skills like event-organizing ), Project Sugar ( an organization that helps children with special conditions ( homeless, HIV-AIDS, special disease,.. ) in Ho Chi Minh city to have a better life experience by providing their chances to study, blend in, … ). He attended different events on raising awareness on global warming. He is an active member in the Resources Team of the organization he is in, which give him the opportunity to go out and experience a lot. He is a youth who is eager to share his stories to make a change. He will definitely get a visa to New York if necessary. He will not be hesitate to speak in front of public and is ready for any questions and/or counteract he should get. | http://portal.vietabroader.org | |||||||
141 | 5/16/2015 9:11:01 | Mhlanga | Thamsanqa | Nil | Zimbabwe | Zimbabwean | Male | 18 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | That climate change is not only the burden of policy makers but it is the mandate of every citizen of the world to take up this responsibility of changing the world. That solutions to avert this problem of climate change come from the homes not from policy makers. That the moral of keeping the world a better place and living a comfortable planet for a future generation should be something that we teach our children at a tender age. | My story began when I was a child. I opened the Conservation Club at my school which taught other young children on saving water and planting trees. It began as an inspiration that during that year the school's water bills drastically reduced. Soon people saw that planting fruit trees had benefits and hence even adults join us. Other children at my school sent the massage of water conservation to their homes and the importance of planting trees, in such a way that the Councillor of our ward called me to have dinner with him. Then I joined environment Africa and organisation which taught people about forestry and the management of resources with trees and water in particular and I was the youngest power ranger at that time. The journey is still continuing although I have few resource and no one is currently sponsoring this work I am still using my orator skills to speech this gospel of climate change. | I spent the first 12 years of my life in a remote township Chinotimba In a country characterised by ailing economy, with two dependants at secondary level, I had no choice but to face the reality of enrolling in a government primary school, with poor educational facilities. A school which had a total of about 2000 students. In that same environment I lived and learnt with children from poor families of which mine was of no exception. But I loved my peers because we refused to live a defeat by life we always told our selves that one day things would change. That to change our lives and our community it dependent upon us. We had Dreams. From that moment onwards I desired to be a superhero that was going to change my community, but my only basic tool being education. I studied with determination and purpose telling my self that my family counted on me my community counted on me. Already learning at a school which told me doom, an environment that despised my abilities from birth, I told myself that I had to go against all odds to one day become a great men. Being groomed a leader from Childhood by circumstances I went on to being Head boy at Chinotimba Primary, in my final year founded the helpers kids club which sought to assist the old, disabled and underprivileged our main focus was poverty and abuse, however it did not last long as most of the members were attending boarding school for secondary education. I attained good results for my grade 7 results and was third best in the district which saw me acquiring a place from one of the beat schools in the country Mzingwane for my secondary education. With the desire that had been fuelled by my past circumstances to save I was chosen a prefect in my forth year, was the vice president of two clubs inspiration club and young writers club breaking a record of being an O'level to hold such positions, a secretary of the debate and public speaking club and health club co-ordinator I proceeded to Founders high where I broke the record of being the first head boy from another school further more becoming Chief Executive officer of Innovative Minds company under Junior Achievement Zimbabwe which became the 1st runner up nationally and being award the social responsibility award for doing the best social work as a company ' | Leadership Dorm Monitor (2010-2012) Scripture Union Cell Group Leader (2010-2012) Class monitor (2011) Under 16 District Boys Athletics Team Captain (2011) Young Writers Secretary (2011-2012) Health Club Co-ordinator (2012-2013) Inspiration Club Committee Member (2012) Young Writers Club Vice President (2013) Inspiration Club Secretary (2013) Debate and Public Speaking committee member (2011) Debate and Public Speaking Secretary (2012) Debate and Public Speaking Vice President (2013) Scripture Union Committee Member (2013) Choirmaster Scripture Union Choir (2013) Chief time keeper Provincial Debate competitions held at Beitbridge (2011) House Captain(2012) Prefect Was a volunteer at Environment Africa (2006-2010) | Nil | ||||||
142 | 5/16/2015 9:47:11 | Sabeer | Sikander | Earthlanka Youth Network | Sri Lanka | Sri Lanka | Male | 27 | English | Sinhala | Tamil | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I believe that speaking at the UN General Assembly session on climate change is a life time opportunity for me. As my voice represents the half of the world population (children and youth), I can demand the delegates and influence the negotiation process for a better package from the Paris summit and SDG summit. I would like to remind and convince the delegates/world leaders that “We must act now, before it’s too late…the future of the half of the world population is in your hand”. I would like to influence during the speech and during the event that YOUTH has to be in the center of the development agenda as we are the major victim of the climate change. Further I would like to showcase my award winning projects and the outcome what we as youth do in my country and in international level for Climate Sustainability. if we do, why you can’t? Attending this high-level event will be a big boost to my voluntary work and professional life. Speaking at this event will inspire and motivate me to continue my outstanding activities and make a bigger impact on my community. Further this recognizes my outstanding voluntary activities which I have made towards combating climate change. As being from an Island nation from the global south this event will pave the path for bigger better opportunities. Currently I am working towards “Post 2015 agenda process" and "Road to Paris –COP21”, and if I get selected it will make my voice stronger and louder and the impact will increase by a considerable margin. | My development work in Climate Change is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. One of my action oriented projects is "Green the Home". With the vision of to reducing the carbon footprint of 10 homes and making them resource efficient within a year, it is composed of five phases which included awareness, 3R concept, practicing recycling and composting, organic farming and energy efficiency. On completion of first two phases of the project and as a result of the magnitude of the impact and quality I received the US Federal Assistant Grant (USD 7,000) to expand my pilot project to a mega scale - 20 homes and with additional activities. The main target audiences were women and children. Family members have increased recycling and composting, which reduced waste/garbage load by 30-40%. further they earned extra cash from the recyclable waste. Their homes gradually became energy efficient (reduced electricity cost by 15%) and they owned organic harvest (economic benefit) at the final phase. Watch this COMPLETE video to believe it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9ZNsvzpHGg ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7qj5EVA_0&feature=plcp ) National Road to Rio+20 campaign is my successful advocacy movement to develop a National Youth Position Paper for Rio+20 through a consultation process with the support of youth led organizations and stakeholders. We reached 10,000 Sri Lankan youth directly and 100,000 indirectly. The document was fed to the process by different channels. watch and believe - (www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBP9061qSSo&feature=plcp ) | Earthlanka network (www.earthlanka.net ) is a leading youth led environment network in Sri Lanka; Sikander is a Youth Climate Ambassadors who works on youth led climate adaptation, mitigation and awareness program/initiatives to provide smart solution for the Climate Crisis under the Earthlanka. He was one of the key member of the “Make It Green Again Campaign" which was launched UNFCCC at COP17 summit (http://www.global-changemakers.net/environment/journey-to-united-nations-climate-change-conference-2011/) Sikander is an outstanding youth leader in Sri Lanka and emerging youth leader from Asia region due to his voluntary commitments and outstanding youth led initiatives. His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development and Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council. Sikander serves as a Youth Ambassador for Climate Change and serves as a youth facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion. He is an environment journalist for leading weekend papers and websites (www.ceylontoday.lk , www.nations.lk , www.earthlanka.net ). The hard work led him to earn the most prestigious award like “Commonwealth Youth Award 2012” and “National Volunteer Award – V- Awards 2013” (http://www.vawards.lk/2013finalists/#prettyPhoto). He has been involved in making several policy papers/drafts/declarations locally and internationally on youth related issues and he possess very strong knowledge on UNFCCC, SDG, Post 2015 Agenda, CBD process and served as a youth facilitator and negotiator tracker for Youth Constituency (MGCY, YOUNGO, GYBN, UNEP-TUNZA) for past 6 years; Sikander has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences such as UNEP, UNFCCC and Rio+20/UNCSD etc. At some of the UN meetings he has served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team head by president of Sri Lanka. Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. Hence he is very comfortable in public speaking, Sikander holds an MBA and works for a leading environmental organization who provide recycling and environmental solution for wide range of audience. | TV Talk Show on World Environment Day, MTV Sports, June 5, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWXZkSyNTKM Live TV Talk Show on World Environment Day, Channel 1/MTV, June 5, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgSBGek9bi8&feature=plcp Live TV Talk Show on World Earth Day, Channel 1/MTV, April 22, 2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbEsXcpwAG4&feature=plcp My Youtube Videos At the Historic United Nations Rio+20 Conference http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtah1RqneME&feature=plcp My Journey to United Nations Climate Change Conference 2011 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roZxluSMIao Let’s Unite to Combat Climate Change-Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q7qj5EVA_0&feature=grec_index Be a Volunteer-You Tube Video-Documentary http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1aXtlGmDxmg&feature=related | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4Jwuat0-h8jdWFLaFlQQ2g4OHM/view?usp=sharing | www.earthlanka.net | |||||
143 | 5/16/2015 10:05:36 | Yaiche | Kaoutar | National Association of Environment and Renewable Energies | Morocco | Moroccan | Female | 22 | English, French, Arabic | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | There are several reasons for which I would like to speak at the opening ceremony. I would like to address both developing and developed countries by highlighting challenging issues that may stand in their way of becoming environment friendly countries and telling inspirational successful stories about how these issues can be ovecome. More concretly, I would like to inspire the world, by setting the example of my country as a regional leader in the field of renewable energies. Despite the fact that Morocco is a developing country, it has taken the initiative years ago, to implement one of the world’s largest solar plants.This to say to developing countries that just because we’re vulnerable doesn’t mean that we can’t take actions to help combat climate change. It's also about how producing clean energy contributes to the economic development by creating thousands of jobs. Morocco also encourages social entrepreneurship, especially when it comes to environmental issues. I was lucky to recieve the government support to start my social business and it has made a huge impact on my community. It is a perfect example of how engaging youth in challenging issues can contribute to making the world a better place. Morocco’s story has all the elements to be an inspirational one. It involves, caring, believing, leading by example, overcoming inevitable challenges and standing for something bigger than ourselves and I would love nothing more than to have the opportunity to tell the whole world how my story and Morocco’s story has become successful ones. | To prevent trees from being constantly cut, I started a social business that tackles the problem of used paper collection and the unemployment of informal workers involved in the paper recycling industry. Unfortunately , after usage, paper is thrown away as garbage, where it’s mixed up with all different types of waste. It’s contaminated and becomes unrecycable. Unemployed informal workers search in trash for what could be saved from the paper and sell it to recycling companies at a very low silly price. They suffer from all kinds of social exclusion, extreme poverty and health issues. Through my initiative, I tried to establish an agreement between institutions that use paper on a national scale and recycling companies. The business model consists of hiring the informal workers to collect used paper directly from the institutions (administrations, schools, printing houses…) instead of the waste bins and sell it to recycling companies at a higher price than before. This will not only provide higher volume and a better quality of paper for recycling, but also reduce the phenomenon of cutting trees to produce paper. It will also provide the informal workers with a better work conditions, health insurance, and enough money to live a decent life In addition to waste management issues, I was teamed up with my colleagues to design the first solar car in my school as an initiative to raise awarness about the importance of usage of renewable resources and reduce carbon emissions. The initiative had the media attention and it is now duplicated in all engineering schools of Morocco. | I am an energy engineering student, I am a co-founder and first counsellor in my organisation. My role is to engage youth in taking climate change actions by raising awarness about the importance and urgency of protecting the environment through compains and events across the country. We also organise conferences about the energy efficiency and about Morocco’s solar and wind plans and how they contributed to the development of it's ecenomy. I was chosen by GIZ to participate in a programme about solar industry ( PV and CSP) I also was chosen to represent Morocco in a very intensive selective Leadership Programme for Women Entrepreneurs in the MENA region .The programme took place in Sweden and was help by the Swedish Institute. I am a National Public Speaking Champion. I won a National Public Speaking Contest in its 4th Edition under the theme of « Cultural Differences ». | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Z7Ipk8I7x2MmtReEQxVFNFams/view?usp=sharing This is a link to the video of the pitch of my social business. I used this pitch to attract partners and investors . | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8Z7Ipk8I7x2a2JSVG9JM2FXeXc/view?usp=sharing | https://www.facebook.com/pages/Association-Nationale-de-lEnvironnement-et-des-Energies-Renouvelables/470209716396387?fref=ts | |||||
144 | 5/16/2015 11:20:01 | Paez Salamanca | Gustavo Nicolas | Climates | Colombia | Colombian | Male | 25 | English/Spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Given my experience (both academic and applied), I know how is to do public policy in a developing country. In particular, I learned that reality sometimes is more “un-believable” than fiction and from a desk in a nice office, good will can be proclaimed but few actions can really be applied. I work on several topics including public health and information systems, and it was amazing how people in the most faraway places have great ideas and a willingness to work for a better situation, but their local realities, resources, and economic incentives are unfortunately align to act in the opposite way. If people have to decide with their stomachs is highly probable that no policy can be applied. For this reason, I want to speak. I want to let people know that we don’t like/need more policy regulation, we have a lot which is not applied and just more rules are more words; the one that exist is good if we are able to make people commit to it. What we need is to think of the people. The CO2 is a consequence, but the mechanism lies in the economic incentives. Hence promoting new opportunities to people in the areas where the problems are will not only reduce the mechanisms, but will improve the living quality of the people, which is our main objective as world citizens. | In 2014, being advisor of the Health Minister of Colombia, I took the leadership in developing a pro-active climate change adaptation plan for the health sector. Even though the topic was really open, along with the team of the Health Minister we develop a strategy that was based on bottom up solutions and help to aim the effects of climate change in the different ways it affect human health (i.e direct effects such as floods, indirect effects such as vector-borne diseases, and general effects such as mental problems due to migrations). Although it requires a massive coordination from all the different areas of the ministry, from epidemiology to health service providers, the plan that we developed is already working. The main achievements of it were: 1. It understood the local reality and the region heterogeneity, and set up goals in agreement with it. 2. It involves the different levels of organizations, from the central government to the local communities, in order to create commitment from all the actors. 3. It is embedded in the information systems and long run public policies (10 years) to guarantee sustainability and monitoring. This plan has several steps, but it already began. With this project we are expecting that in a period within 10 years, Colombia will have an effective system to react against natural catastrophes and will also reduce the health risks as much as possible, based on a public health framework. | My name is Gustavo Nicolas Paez, and I’m economist and industrial engineer, with minors in math and conservation studies) from Universidad de los Andes, in Bogotá, Colombia. Since I was a kid, I had work in different ways towards nature conservation and sustainable development. The first project I participated was in 2007, where, in the name of my school, participate as a founding member of “Proyecto Guacharos”, an alliance between Parques Naturales Nacionales de Colombia and several schools to promote knowledge about the natural parks of Colombia between high school students. Among other things, I was also invited by the IUCN and the WWF as an observer to the COP15. Yet I considered that helping in divulgation was not enough, so later I also work on it from the academic perspective. Under the mentorship of Dr. Manuel Rodriguez Becerra, I was T.A in courses such as Sustainable Development and Governance, at Universidad de los Andes, as part of the Global Network of Masters in Development Practices. Finally, I had also work in the topic from the public sector, and being advisor of the Colombian’s Minister of Health, I direct the climate change adaptation plan among other public health policies. Within these years, I have also been involved with organizations that work hard to deal with climate change. In particular, and one of the most proactive involving young people is Climates, which I linked at the end of 2011. Due to the other activities I have had, my main work with them had been advising the Colombian team toward the implementation of guidelines and research projects. These experiences allow me, at my age, to have both academic and in-field experience of what is doing public policy in developing countries, and how even in the poorest regions (I participated in project in the Guainía region, heart of the Amazon forest); people have hope and will to improve the life of others. Yet most of the times, the solutions we centrally developed, which are “accurate in theory”, had no effect. One of the main causes is because of the lack of knowledge of local realities. The other reason is because of our lack of general knowledge and our pride to follow our intuition. For that reason, and being awarded with the Gates Cambridge Scholarship, I’m doing my MPhil in Economic Research and posterior PhD at the University of Cambridge. I want to be better prepare so that when I come back to my region, I can help the people with better practical solutions. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6JKcUtBI-o https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B47hFoxQ64qATnRXaTZpUi1PV2s/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B47hFoxQ64qAN202a2Y4V0hUUDg&authuser=0 | http://www.studentclimates.org/ | |||||
145 | 5/16/2015 12:38:00 | KERTING | Thomas | LES RESPIRATIONS | FRANCE | French | Male | 38 | English, French | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Air quality can reconnect people to climate. It is an infrastructure we can build together. A new deal on Air is today an efficient way to free inspiration and demonstrate transition. Air quality is a pilar of the green economy and of the transition. Therefore, I would like to share a positive way to act on global issues by bringing every party together on the essential: the air we breathe where we breathe it. The smart city will have to breathe. The better air people will breathe in a city, the more competitive and attractive the city will be, the better the health, the environment and the healthcare costs. | Founded in 2004, Les Respirations are the leading forum in France looking at major environmental and health issues from an air quality standpoint. It promotes the empowerment of air quality best practices world-wide, and the networks of collaboration that enable civil society’s voices to be heard with clarity and force. Les Respirations bring together politicians, business leaders, NGOs, lawyers, students, academics, doctors, writers, scientists around essential topics: mobility, environment, sustainable/smart cities, energy, climate, law, ... They aim at synchronizing and promoting every initiative improving air quality. In 2015, Les Respirations have been awarded with the COP21 Paris Climat 2015 label to spread a simple message: air quality is a way to mobilize people to act on climate. Individuals are willing to act but climate seems very far away from day-to-day concerns. We have to allow everyone to commit at his or her level, to seize the essential. Air each one of us breathes might be the key to a common consciousness and global stakes. | Since graduating in 2000 Innovation & Entrepreneurship at ESCP (Paris Graduate School of Business), Thomas has been trying to implement the combination of these two powerful words. Since 2008 he concentrates on the essentials, the air we breathe, taking over Airsur, flagship of French research, expertise and technological integration on air quality. In 2013, he perceives that the awareness of air quality will be a key element of the ecological transition and after launching a complementary initiative: Aircology. The goal is to promote air quality by turning it into visible for everyone by any means of expression. He developed educational modules for children and promotes education notably through the pioneering conference in France on air quality, Les Respirations. Convinced that the air quality will be key to new growth, he co-wrote The Battle of the Air in 2015 became reference book on the economic issues of air quality. In April 2015, he co-founded the Climate SMEs Club within the UN Global Compact France. Thomas is also General Delegate of the Interprofessional Federation of Atmospheric Environment Professions where he co-founded the Air Quality French School in training professionals. He defends the air in various associations: Comité 21, Internet and Intelligence of Things think tank. In academics, Thomas supports La Sorbonne Environmental Ethics since its creation. Thomas' motto: Live your air! | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqZgaMSfAA | https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomaskertingairsur | www.lesrespirations.org | |||||
146 | 5/16/2015 12:56:51 | Sok | Sotha | World Farmers' Organisation | Cambodia | Cambodia | Male | 40 | English, Cambodian | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | I want to bring to the attention of the international community the interests of farmers, the main food producers in the world and the guardians of our soils and our planet. It would be impossible to make a significant change in fighting climate change without hearing the voice of farmers and including them in the discussions and policy formulation. Moreover, I do have strong competencies on climate change, thanks to my direct experience and involvement at grass root level. | In cooperation with the Cambodian Farmers' Organisation, CFAP and other international organisation, Sotha has organized several workshops from grass-root to regional and national level in good collaboration with relevant stakeholders. The aim was to strengthen network of Farmers’ organisations (associations, community-based organisations, and cooperatives) and promote a pro-active approach to ensure better policy discussions and feasibility to serve the interests of small farmers. In particular the program provided: 1) Water source support to small farmers through multi-agricultural system; 2) Enhance small farmers to get access to on time information via cell phone SMS in local language(s); and 3) Scale up good practices to other target areas. | Sok Sotha, born 1975 in a rice farm family, his parents has only 2.5 ha of rice land. He is the managing director of the Cambodian Farmers Association Federation of Agricultural Producers (CFAP-Cambodia); he has worked for CFAP-Cambodia since January 2003. He did his Bachelor degree, Faculty of Art Humanity and Language at Human Resource University (HRU) in Phnom Penh, he also studied General accounting and administration at Norton University (Banana centre) in 1999. He did many types of short specific training courses (Education, Organizational and financial management, M&E and Research Methodology…) inside and outside the country. Sok Sotha is specialised in Farmers’ organisations base, Education and Management. In 2003 he also worked for the EU mission as Interpreter/Translator and Assistant of the European Union Election Observation Mission (EU.EOM), the Election of National Assembly in Cambodia. In 2004 he also provided services like development of a research design, method of interviews and scheduling of the interviews and subsequent reporting, Interview rural villagers, Write essay and the outputs of the interviews and interviewing methodology, Make a presentation of the research/study results, To evaluate on "Women Participation in Rural Development through Sustainable Agriculture project" Research on the so called " SRI demonstration farmers" Focusing on documenting the demo-farmers' activities and feelings as experienced while they participated in the experiment on rice production using a method called " system of rice intensification (SRI)" etc. He was nominated to join in the IFAD-COSOP, the Country Programme Management Team (CPMT) in Cambodia in 2007 by the International Federation of Agricultural Producers. During the 38th world farmers’ congress in June 2008 he was elected as the vice regional president of the International Federation of Agricultural Producers (IFAP) in Warsaw, Poland for Asia. He represents FOs led in Cambodia with other FOs in Asia and the Pacific to participate in negotiation between FOs and IFAD under the developing of the so called Medium Term Collaboration Programme (MTCP) since 2005. He becomes the chair for South East Asia Plus China of the IFAD Medium Term Cooperation programme (MTCP), officially elected at the Plaza Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand on 8th December 2011 by SC members. Sotha wrote about climate changes, challenges and solution of small farmers in Cambodia to join in the global contest organised by LTO Noord, HMW and the Wageningen University in 2010, the Netherlands, then he won the competition. | www.wfo-oma.org | |||||||
147 | 5/16/2015 13:07:21 | Chavhunduka | Tinashe | World Farmers' Organisation | South Africa | South Africa | Male | 42 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to bring to the attention of the international community the interests of farmers, the main food producers in the world and the guardians of our soils and our planet. It would be impossible to make a significant change in fighting climate change without hearing the voice of farmers and including them in the discussions and policy formulation. Moreover, I do have strong competencies on climate change, thanks to my direct experience and involvement at grass root level. | Working with AFASA we support smallholder farmers in achieving better knowledge about climate change as well as learning how to adapt and avoid losses. I have been part of AFASA Climate Change Committee for many years and I have also participated to several international meetings to ensure farmers' representation. | Tinashe is a passionate agricultural and rural development practitioner who firmly believes in agriculture as an "engine for growth" for Sub-Saharan African countries' economies. The rising demand for food and challenges posed by the climate change threat to agricultural production systems require that we become more practical and innovative and implement projects at farm/plot level, that is, there is need for paradigm shift from being thinkers to doers. Smallholder agriculture, if properly managed, has the potential to transform the lives of rural poor for the better and ensure food security. I see myself playing an important role in smallholder farmer capacity building and create sustainable farming systems that can assist the transformation of subsistence farmers into commercial farmers who participate in formal agricultural value chains and hence aid economic growth and development of the developing world. | www.wfo-oma.org | |||||||
148 | 5/16/2015 13:17:19 | Castro | Joan Regina | PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. | Philippines | Filipino | Female | 51 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | I want to speak at the conference to share the stories of the many women, fishers and communities we work with who are experiencing the effects of climate change. To share the efforts done thus far, the commitments and the challenges we face in order to mitigate climate change and prepare the future for the next generation. Moreover, I want to challenge everyone that together and every meaningful act and commitment (small or big) by politicians and stakeholders to plan and act ambitious actions on climate change mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation matters. | In 2012, Dr. Castro managed the “Frontliners Project” highlighting the role of Local Chief Executives (LCE) as front liners in mainstreaming holistic approaches to climate adaptation measures into local development agendas. It was implemented with League of Municipalities of the Philippines (LMP), an association of over 1500 LCEs in the country. PFPI and LMP worked towards increasing the LCE’s awareness about population, health, environment (PHE) dynamics and other factors that predispose communities to climate change and to promote their role as frontline stewards of sustainable development, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. Information and advocacy activities were delivered to LCEs as well as other local decision-makers to increase their awareness and garner support on climate change actions and policies. Technical assistance was extended on integrated PHE actions to build community resiliency to climate change. Through a survey, it was found out that initiatives enabled LCEs to realize that they are not helpless when it comes to addressing climate change. The LCEs also learned about the interconnectedness of climate change, population, health, environment to food security, poverty and inequity issues. As a result, over 1000 policymakers were reached and at least 20 local champions were mentored. The champions served as advocates to their peers highlighting their experiences in implementing an integrated population, health and environment approach to attain eco-human health, which is key to climate resilient people and ecosystems. | Dr. Joan Regina Castro is currently the Executive Vice President of PATH Foundation Philippines, Inc. (PFPI), a non government organization based in the Philippines whose mission is to alleviate poverty, improve health and promote environmentally sustainable development in underserved areas of the Philippines and Asia-Pacific. Dr Castro has more than 20 years of experience working with international organizations, national and local government agencies, non-profit organizations, private sectors, academic institutions and the media on a range of sustainable development initiatives and community-based action programs related to food security, participatory resource management, pro-health, pro-environment, pro-poor livelihood enterprises, gender-equitable development and integrated approaches to climate change adaptation and resilience building. The highlights of her work include her role as the Project Director of a pioneering project , the Integrated Population and Coastal Resource Management (IPOPCORM) initiative from 2000-2007. The project was assessed by external evaluators that described the IPOPCORM initiative as gold standard model for PHE planning and execution and highlighted the availability of high quality materials and mobilization techniques developed by the project for adaptation and use by PHE projects globally. From 2008-2013, she served as PHE Technical Assistance Lead for the 5-year USAID supported global Building Actors and Leaders for Advancement of Community Excellence in Development (BALANCED) project. For the duration of the BALANCED Project, she extended technical assistance to health and conservation in public and private sector organizations in the Asia-Pacific region (Papua New Guinea) and East and West Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Ghana) developing and recommending PHE strategies and interlinkage approaches to family planning, health, natural resource management and climate change adaptation. Dr. Castro is also involved in national and international initiatives/groups such as the Population and Sustainable Development Alliance (PSDA), the Asian-Pacific Resource & Research Centre for Women (ARROW) and the Philippines Population Health and Environment (PHE) Network. With Dr. Castro’s experience on integrated issues, with decision makers both in private and public sectors at local, national and international levels enables her to garner support from politicians and stakeholders that together , we can plan and act ambitious actions on climate change mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation. | http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2013/05/joan-castro-engaging-youth-create-change-philippines/ http://www.newsecuritybeat.org/2011/01/watch-joan-castro-on-resource-management-and-family-planning-in-the-philippines/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6oqN1TmX-iWbHZDT1JUZGVtOEE/view?usp=sharing | www.pfpi.org | |||||
149 | 5/16/2015 13:17:52 | Khan | Nausheen | Abdul Momen Khan Memorial Foundation (Khan Foundation) | Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | Female | 25 | English, Bengali | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | As a young woman from Bangladesh, the issue of climate change is close to my heart. The lack of evidence surrounding the impact of climate change on women, for instance on women's (sexual and reproductive) health and rights, is my area of interest. By speaking at this event, I would be able to bring to light the innovative coping strategies used by women from local communities. This opportunity to conduct advocacy at the international level would enable the designing of policies, build community resilience and empower women and girls to take action against climate change. I have been actively following the Rio+20 and Post-2015 processes. I attended the 4th High Level Panel of Eminent Persons (HLPEP) Meeting on Post-2015 Development Agenda in Bali, 2013 as a youth delegate and emphasised the urgent demands of the world’s youth from countries most vulnerable to climate change. I also participated in the Means of Implementation panel and spoke about the need for international development agencies to co-operate to better design development projects and avoid duplication. My recommendations were mentioned in the Bali Communique released by the HLPEP. I attended the 13th Session of the Open Working Group on SDGs in July 2013 as a representative of the WMG. This February, I attended the Post-2015 negotiations on the Political Declaration calling for a truly transformative declaration that recognizes gender equality and women’s empowerment. I would like to use this platform to advocate on behalf of the rural Bangladeshi women who are the most affected by climate change. | Increasing the participation of poor and marginalized women in decision-making of climate change adaptation is one of the strategies being used by Khan Foundation. We have been using social accountability tools including the community scorecard. We formed Citizen Forums, which are citizen groups comprised of groups of people from different professions, age groups, social class. These Citizen Forums engage with the local NGO representatives and conduct the citizen monitoring activities and act as a pressure group to ensure that the citizens have access to basic services. After cyclone SIDR and Aila, the Bangladesh government took an initiative to build a Cyclone Center cum Post office for the SIDR and AILA affected people of Amtali Upazila, Barguna. Through the process of the community scorecard, the Citizen Forum identified low quality bricks, cements, and rods that were being used to construct this building. To stop this corruption Citizen Forum of Amtali organized anti-corruption campaign, rally, human-chain and dialogue with local administration along with the Local MP and citizens. Following the campaign and events, decisive and revolutionary measures were taken - all construction activities of Cyclone Center cum Post office at Amatali Upazilla were stopped. The local administration formed a four-member investigation team including two civil society representatives. This ensured transparency and accountability in public service delivery. | Nausheen Khan has been working at Khan Foundation, a non-government organization in Bangladesh that has received Special Consultative Status with ECOSOC of the UN. The organization focuses on democracy, governance, human rights, access to justice and other development issues. At Khan Foundation, she uses her knowledge of global concerns and managerial experience to conduct research and implement projects. She is the Co-ordinator for a regional project titled, “Women’s Sexual & Reproductive Health and Rights and Climate Change: What is the Connection?” in partnership with Asian-Pacific Resource and Research Centre for Women (ARROW) based in Malaysia. She has recently completed a year-long academic scholarship by The Swedish Institute for a program, titled, Social Innovation in a Digital Context. She spent the first six months at Lund University, Sweden, studying human rights and digital technology and then returned to Khan Foundation to implement a human rights project titled, “Paribartan: Advancing Women’s Rights through Technology”. As a human rights leader and a young professional working in the area of development and public service, she has been a strong advocate for inclusion of climate change as a development agenda. She is passionate about empowering the voices of the marginalized groups, including women, youth and the poor, in countries most vulnerable to climate change. She also completed a research internship at the renowned Worldwatch Institute, an environmental think-tank that guides global decision making. She was awarded a fellowship by the Mount Holyoke Miller Worley Center for the Environment to complete the internship during which she had the opportunity to work on two papers that were published in the Vital Signs publication of the organization. Nausheen is interested and has been following the post 2015 processes. She has been participating in the intergovernmental negotiations as a WMG representative conducting outreach, advocacy and actions including strategy formulation, proposal and recommendation formulation, advocacy documents preparation etc. At the national and international level, she contributes as an OP-ED writer for Dhaka Tribune and the Huffington Post respectively where she has been advocating for gender equality, women’s empowerment, universal access to SRHR, adoption of Comprehensive Sexuality Education, impact of climate change on women, as well as highlighting women’s priorities in the post 2015 development framework. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5omoa3hgcu2OUczMUZWTHhvN00/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5omoa3hgcu2T3NKek0tQmhUNEk/view?usp=sharing | www.khan-foundation.org | |||||
150 | 5/16/2015 14:50:31 | Mwale | Mwangala | Mwale | Zambia | Zambian | female | 21 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Because I want to be a voice to inspire young people especially young women all over the world that we can take climate justice and we can leave the world better than we found it. That there's no excuse good enough to fail to make this world better. Every one in their capacity can do something for our environment. | My name is Mwangala Mwale. Since April 2010 to date I have been a climate ambassador under the unite for climate program in Zambia. Since then I opened up a club in my then high school to talk about climate change. After that I taught my fellow pupils on climate change. As a group we also planted trees we have done many clean ups, radio programs, all centred on climate action and awareness. I'm currently studying environmental education because I want to know more about the environment and suggest and create solutions to the problem making the world a better place. | I'm Mwangala Mwale a third year female student aged 21. I am pursuing a bachelor's degree in environmental education at the university of Zambia in Lusaka Zambia. I worked with unicef and wildlife environmental conservation society of Zambia from 2010-2014 under the unite for climate program in Zambia. I was a climate ambassador and went on to becoming a youth facilitator under the same program after being trained in climate change awareness and advocacy. I was trained in public speaking, radio snd internet all for the sake of climate action. I am quite confident speaking in public. Being a youth facilitator I had many opportunities for public speaking especially after being trained for it. | ||||||||
151 | 5/16/2015 18:52:49 | OMIGBODUN | EYILOREOLUWA | Plant for the Planet | NIGERIA | NIGERIAN | MALE | 14 | ENGLISH LANGUAGE | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I will like to speak at the event to give me the opportunity of explaining to world leaders our Plant-For-The-Planet global slogan,“Stop Talking, Start Planting!” This, I hope will help bring climate change action more practical attention by people of all nations. United Nations, obviously in search of world peace and unity should drive efforts in curtailing any trend that could adversely affect global development. As a citizen of a developing country, Nigeria, I will seize appropriate opportunities to discuss Climate Justice at the opening session of the UN General Assembly. We all know that climate change issues are mostly traceable to industrialization in developed countries of the world. Some researchers claim that the carbon foot print/person/year in some developed countries includes 20 tonnes per American, 10 tonnes per European, and a mere 0.5 tonnes per African! It will take somebody like me who has caught a glimpse of the industrialized world when normally resident in the developing world, to judiciously discuss Climate Justice. Finally, I will like to speak at the event to afford me the opportunity of represent the young generation and have their voices heard on a global level. My generation believes more in action than merely talking about it, but, speaking at the event will afford me a platform to showcase best-practices of Youth Organizations like the Plant-For-The-Planet, so the message of acting against Climate Change for our future can spread around world! | When I visited some developed countries, I observed the seriousness attached to waste recycling and climate change. This is barely the case in developing countries, including Nigeria. The method in developed countries includes separating trash into waste categories like Paper, Metals, Glass and other categories depending on types of waste regularly disposed in the area. In school, I tagged four waste bins: PAPER, NYLON, METALS and PLASTICS in which everyone was to toss wastes. Response was poor at first, but some students soon found it fun and encouraged others to pick trash and put in bins. Some picked card boxes to arrange neatly in bins. Our teachers said it was a good idea to add to our school curriculum. Seeing these boxes, another idea hit me: Why couldn’t I plant some seeds/seedlings in boxes and plastics as a mini recycling project? As World President-Elect of Plant-For-The-Planet Children’s Global Board (Tutzing, Germany) and President ANGELSNet-Nigeria, I recognize trees as Carbon Sinks in the fight against climate change. Thousands of my colleagues, members of Plant-For-The-Planet, the world over have successful local climate action simply by planting trees! I recently called a few friends back home in Nigeria and we planted tree-seeds like Mangoes, Oranges, and Ashoka. Ever since, the number of seedlings we planted in recycled biodegradable cardboard boxes and pet bottles are growing! These surely have sustainable effects on climate change! | My name is EyiloreOluwa Omigbodun David. I am fourteen years old and proudly Nigerian. My role in Plant for the Planet is being the President of the Global Children’s Board. I am on the board with thirteen other members from different continents all over the world. I meet the criteria above by: 1. Being a representative of Plant for the Planet and has been authorised to speak on the organisations behalf 2. Can address most of the relevant topics in the event concept note 3. Would be a compelling speaker and can engage constructively in relating with various people and stakeholders having been afforded the opportunity to speak to students, teachers, parents some members of Plant for the Planet, and also members of ANGELS Network Youth Network of Angels for Nigerian Good Environmental Living Standards of which I am also Acting President of after being Vice President. Also, I have emceed some school events. 4. Will be available in New York on 28-29 June and for travel if necessary. 5. I have a valid United States of America visa to New York, having recently travelled to New York, USA in December 2014 to January 2015. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PHtnKf5RsPSVRQcFlvb1Z1dVk/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-PHtnKf5RsPcmlMWTBnWWtJMk0/view?usp=sharing | http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/we-plant-trees-for-a-better-world-help-us-children-to-save-our-future | |||||
152 | 5/16/2015 20:16:25 | Colakovich | Anesa | Youth Empowerment Kosovo | KOSOVO | KOSOVO | Female | 25 | English, Albanian, Serbian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at this event because I want to show that not only we can feed the poor, create healthy environment, but we can also create a peace activities. We want to show our example and how others can take from it what is useful to them. | As a Founder of the Youth Empowerment Kosovo, we established urban gardening in the northern Kosovo in the city of Mitrovica. We have been able to engage, volunteers of different age and most importantly we have engaged two ethnic groups Albanians and Serbs who often have conflict in this town of Kosovo. | Please find the links above: http://www.aukonline.org/web/current-news-events/552-a-u-k-student-wins-fullbright-scholarship.html http://www.developmentstudies.ohio.edu/People/Fulbright.html | ||||||||
153 | 5/16/2015 22:11:53 | Zabala | Ana | Colegio Rochester & Turning Green | Colombia | Colombian | Female | 17 | English and Spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | It will be an opportunity to show the world the power and wisdom that lies in youth. Leaders must see that great and innovative ideas are often conceived in the minds of young people, and that passion and honesty lead us. Climate change is something everyone has the right to talk about because it is about our environment; everything that surrounds all human beings. The ways in which it can be tackled are limitless, that's why the most people leaders and citizens listen to, the better construction of a future we'll have. I want my voice to be heard speaking about my suggestions and ideas. When the time comes of making important decisions for the world, I want my inputs to be considered as relevant because they not only represent me, but talk for a lot of other people. I want to learn and cooperate with others who share my vision of a prosperous and just world. I want to share my ideas and listen to others to collectively construct better projects where humans, nature and other species can thrive in harmony. I want to make connections that will catalyze my actions in benefit of positive change and better conditions for our society and planet earth. By speaking there, I will celebrate the interconnectedness of our world because I will bridge the gaps between nations, I will connect with others by seeking to achieve the common objective of sustainability. I want to practice my global citizenship while being a strong voice for Latin America and Colombia. I'm passionate about changing the order of things in society, which I think is pretty unfair and doesn't make much sense. | I study at Rochester School where I'm president of the environmental committee since 2013. At school, I’m developing a project called Good, Clean and Fair food, which aims to educate the community around the link between food and a commitment to our country and environment, and support sustainable agriculture through our catalog of suppliers and our curriculum. There’s a sustainable agriculture committee led by me, made up of students who’ll be in constant training by experts from Familia de la Tierra and Slow Food. Familia de la Tierra is a network of agro-ecological producers. They’ve received the award to “Innovation in the linking of sustainable agricultural practices with the market” given by the FAO. In October of 2014, I was named champion of Project Green Challenge. It is a global call to action for students to transition from conventional to conscious living developed by Turning Green, a non-profit organization focused on empowering this generation and mobilizing action to sustain a healthy planet. PGC is comprised of 30 sustainability-themed challenges in 30 days. Each challenge delves into a different theme (food, agriculture, fair trade, energy). Participants receive points based upon completing the challenges, finalists are flown to San Francisco where they attend an Eco Summit. There, a panel of judges selects the champion based on speeches and presentations made by the finalists. This panel was made up of leaders from organizations like Friends of the Earth, 5 Gyres, NRDC and EWG. I’ve been working with Turning Green as member of the Student Advisory Board. | I’m 17 years old and live in Bogotá, Colombia and study at Rochester School, where I'm a junior. For the last two years, I've been president of the Environmental and Social Committee. I'm in charge of leading this group of students through projects that promote better conditions for others, our school and our planet such as Good, Clean and Fair Food. I was named an Eco Leader by the school directives. I'm member of the sustainability department and also the arts department. I'm also part of the school newspaper's editorial committee, where I make sure to spread consciousness. I'm into all kinds of arts, I consider them to be one of the most liberating things in the world along with helping others without hidden intentions. I always try to attract positive energies; that's why I avoid conflicts with others to the maximum. My journey of environmental activism and advocacy took strength in October 2014, after being champion of Turning Green’s Project Green Challenge 2014 among 3984 students from 31 different countries. I’m a member of Turning Green’s Student Advisory Board, where I’m Chair of Communications. My role is to write petitions, find new partnerships, write blog posts for the Conventional to Conscious blog: https://teensturninggreenblog.wordpress.com/2015/04/15/changing-the-world-with-john-roulac-founder-of-nutiva/ Basically I’m in charge of how the organization communicates with the world. I’m currently working on outreach in South America for project Green Challenge 2015. I was chosen to be an intern this summer, so I’ll go to Turning Green’s headquarters in Sausalito, California. There, I’ll work in the development of The Conscious Kitchen, a program that’s rebuilding school food systems based on TG’s values and six foundational terms: Fresh, Local, Organic, Seasonal, non-GMO (FLOSN’). I’ll also be working in the writing of Project Green Challenge 2015 as well as the promotion and funding of different campaigns. I was invited to the Environmental Working Group’s office in Oakland by Ken Cook, its president. There, I’ll be working in farming, one of the key issues the organization targets. Now, I’m extremely passionate about food sovereignty and justice, and how sustainable agriculture empowers communities and heals ecosystems. I’m developing a project called Good, Clean and Fair Food at my school, based on the principles of Slow Food, an organization that I’m also linked to. I want to achieve that in Colombia to contribute to sustainable development and the post- armed conflict scenario by empowering the agricultural sector. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viQ6QvwUSyM | https://docs.google.com/document/d/10mMG-6ar1pzxgikzeSU_ZsFpjNpUHfHZWFUqLOXKTvU/edit?usp=sharing | http://www.teensturninggreen.org/ http://www.rochester.edu.co/ | |||||
154 | 5/17/2015 0:36:16 | Kabir | Farah | ActionAid Bangladesh | Bangladesh | Bangladeshi | Female | 55 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | The nominee will the speak about 4 key issues within the spectrum of the subject. a) resourcing climate action with a balance of public and private resources focusing adaptation and technology transfer b) loss and damage to be understood and recognized globally as the current mitigation pledges and adaptation actions will not lead to an ideal post 2015 scenario on building climate resilient nations. c) supporting women and smallholder farmers with adequate technology and capacity to grow food for the world population. d) bridging the climate action and disaster protected sustainable development | The climate impacted coastal districts of Bangladesh suffers from flooding during monsoon every year since the 2007 Cyclone due to weak structure of embankment and poor management. In 2008, ActionAid Bangladesh under Farah’s leadership initiate assistance programme in 4 coastal districts creating movement to negotiate with government for adequate resource allocation for climate smart embankments. Over the period, the overall programme through number of projects invested in building community capacity in planning, designing and implementing projects that builds climate resilience at local level. Affected communities especially the women organized number of events with relevant authorities demanding permanent solution of water intrusion that bring salinity destroying crop lands and other assets. The movement grew stronger due to delaying the process and people’s suffering went unbearable leading to temporary displacement and unsafe migration of affected communities. In December 2014, the movement was joined by the local media and the local government representatives. Collectively, they submitted memorandum to the Prime Minister and plead for assistance. The Prime Minister investigated the matter and organized an online Skype conference with the affected communities. Listening to all sufferings community faced the Premier made commitment of immediate action and allocated US $ 357,000.00 to repair the damaged embankments. | Farah Kabir, the Country Director of ActionAid Bangladesh since 2007, brings 20 years of experience in the fields of development, governance, human rights and research, and is widely regarded for her work on women’s rights and climate change. Prior to joining ActionAid, she spent almost ten years in senior leadership positions at the British Council in both the UK and Bangladesh. Over the last two decades, Farah has worked closely with partners in the government and the private sector and built transformative relationships based on shared values of human growth and empowerment. As part of the governance team at the British Council, she worked on developing participative democracy in Scotland, as well as in South Asia. She headed the first secretariat of Asia Pacific Women in Politics, and is the first South Asian to be a member of the Napier University, Edinburgh Governance Board. Under Farah’s leadership, ActionAid Bangladesh has received several awards and distinctions, including The 2013 “UN Sasakawa Award for Disaster Risk Reduction” (as part of a consortium of 10 NGOs), and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) “Lighthouse Initiatives 2013” award for its success in empowering rural women and role of the women to face climate change risks at community level. For her significant contribution to women’s empowerment in Bangladesh, Farah Kabir won the prestigious "Nawab Ali Chowdhury National Award 2012". Farah is currently the Chair of the Board of the Global Network for CSO on DRR (GNDR) and serves on the boards of several national and international organizations including the Climate Action Network South Asia (CANSA), Education Watch and Funding Committee of Civil Society Education Fund (CSEF). She has been active in the climate negotiation, policy formulation and implementation of climate policies since 2007. Farah was among the 37 CSO representatives selected to join Ban Ki-moon Climate Summit in September 2014. | https://www.dropbox.com/s/lui42ntvll76j4e/Interview%20with%20Farah%20Kabir.mp4?dl=0 | https://www.dropbox.com/s/abej5gghcih06vx/Curriculum%20Vitae%20of%20Farah%20Kabir.rtf?dl=0 | http://www.actionaid.org/ | |||||
155 | 5/17/2015 1:25:25 | MATTEGUNTA | KIRAN DASARANNA | Indonesian Green Action Forum | India | Indian | Male | 33 | English, Telugu | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I am one of the citizens who thinks almost every time about Mother Earth and for better society. With this speaking opportunity, I have a scope to share past, present and future plans with all dignitaries who are coming from all parts of the world. This is the FIRST BEST option to meet and have a multinational personalities interacting and sharing the knowledge towards the best of the best in the World. That to, June 29th is my date of birth, coincidentally, opening ceremony is on June 29th, so, I am glad to have a chance to give fine gift to the world on my birthday. The BEST gift. | I have a dream to see around 35% Green (Tree) cover in India (& In World). To meet this dream, I have been engaged in 3 roles such as Research (by academic path), Nation (by volunteer path), Social (by election contest). By these 3 roles, I have been trying my best and as well encouraging and building up more citizens towards this action. For example: I have taken 1 fine note in recent election campaign such as "Dignity to Women", that is, transforming "women in prostitution" towards "women in gardening" as like to raise their social status, self women empowerment and as well for green cover. Like, this, I planned to share so many in the Discussion Board | Presently, I am one of the Member (Leader) of Climate Reality Project (India) team and I am one of the Member (International) of Indonesian Green Action Forum (IGAF). I am young (still bachelor) from developing country and involved in climate change studies and mitigation strategies and Presently, I have raised a topic of saving Sumatra Island Forest cover at IGAF discussion. I am familiar with public speaking at different events. Happy to be there too | At present, I am not holding video links at my end. I will present in coming days since I have a 6 hours presentation (& discussion) at Universities Indonesia (Research Center for Climate Change) which is either on May 27th (or) 28th. I can share that link immediately without fail. | you can find much details about me at this link: http://presenters.climaterealityproject.org/presenter/kiran-dasaranna-mattegunta_7611 | ||||||
156 | 5/17/2015 2:03:12 | Tan | Stephanie | Dakila | Philippines | Filipino | Female | 29 | English, Filipino | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Steph will be able to bring the fight of vulnerable countries like the Philippines for climate justice to the international negotiations. | Steph has been campaigning for climate justice together with Oxfam International and Dakila since 2009. She handled the Tik Tok Pilipinas campaign, the local version of Tck Tck Tck. Tik Tok Pilipinas mobilized more than 80 artist advocates and went to schools to educate youth about climate change. The artist advocates also created a lobbying kit with songs and narrations about climate change. This was given to congress and senate, urging them to pass the People's Survival Fund. The law was enacted in 2012. In 2014, Steph spearheaded the Climate Walk under Climate Change Commission commissioner Naderev Saño. The team walked 1,000 km from Manila to Tacloban. On the way, climate fairs were held to educate local communities about climate change. The Climate Walk also talked to local government officials and pledges from local government units to draft and implement their local climate change adaptation were made. | Steph has been in the forefront of the fight for climate justice since 2009. She is one of Dakila's campaigners and has spearheaded climate-related campaigns. She was also part of the Climate Change Commission under ex-commissioner Naderev Saño. Steph has been to different climate negotiations under Saño and is well-versed about climate talks. Her experience in these negotiations plus her experience in grassroots work make an excellent combination of a young speaker for the United Nations. Steph is also comfortable with public speaking. She has had experiences in addressing the public in different fora and events. One of her biggest event was at the fundraising festival for Haiyan survivors with over 1,500 people in attendance. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5G-Vv1r5CBcaGNFd3ppZW1aelk/view?usp=sharing | https://ph.linkedin.com/in/stephltan | dakila.org.ph | |||||
157 | 5/17/2015 7:00:44 | Saba | Alina | APWLD | Nepal | Nepalese | Female | 27 | English, Nepali | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am a climate justice activist but today I am also a devastated earthquakes survivor from Nepal. These two terrific realities are bringing the same consequences: the loses of our family, friends, communities, houses and the deepening of our already harsh living conditions. But unlike earthquakes, climate change is something that we can control if our world's leaders agree to adopt a binding legal climate agreement now. After experiencing the earthquakes, I have realized how it feels like to not to have a home, like thousands of people who have been displaced every year due to impacts of climate change all around the world. Imagine how unfair it is for Mugal indigenous community who lives in the remote mountains of Nepal who are loosing their only source of income - crops and medicinal herbs - because of landslides and warming temperatures every year. As a young indigenous woman I have a message to world leaders and international community: how the excess carbon emission of wealthy nations are creating injustice for poor. I also want to tell them about the FPAR programme and show them that even though climate change is a global issue, we need to look at climate solutions at the local and community levels; exactly like the ones that are taken by the Mugal indigenous community, and especially women. Women play a key role because as the main responsible for food, water and fuel, they hold localized knowledge critical in creating adaptative and innovative measures. | Through the Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) programme, I have been working with the Mudal indigenous women of Nepal highly affected by the impacts of climate change. The programme has supported the formation of women's groups in Mugal villages to conduct research and to talk about climate change and indigenous women’s rights for the first time. The women are now more concerned about the local policies, budgets and development work that are being implemented in their village and affecting their lives. Before the Mugal indigenous women were only invited to attend local meetings but now the village development official and local leaders ask them about their concerns and help them in prioritizing their agenda. The local level government bodies such as district development office, women’s development office, agriculture and forest office have assured that they will include indigenous women in their programs and would take initiative to listen to their concerns.They are now working with the Village Coordination Councils to encourage the integration of traditional knowledge in climate-related measures. They are also advocating for their own adaptation measures, such as the construction of a new drinking-water facility as well as a canal to bring freshwater to operate a watermill recently built to replace those destroyed by landslides. | Alina is a young Limbu indigenous woman from Nepal with a passion for indigenous women's rights and climate justice. She joined the Mugal Indigenous Women Upliftment Institute (MIWUI) in November 2013 to benefit the Climate Justice FPAR programme as the young woman researcher. Before joining this programme, she did not know much about the dynamics of gender and climate change. Her involvement in this project and the regional trainings has built her knowledge and speaking skills. Since then, she has been selected in several international forums to speak about the indigenous peoples and climate change impacts. For instance, she spoke at the UN Climate Summit in September 2014 and at the Gender Day at the COP 20 in Lima, Peru, at the High level event organized by the UNFCCC Secretariat. She is now going to move in Chiang Mai, Thailand, to join the APWLD Secretariat as the South-South placement. She will be working mainly with the Climate Justice programme that is supporting marginalized women in Asia Pacific to cope with climate change. | Link of Alina's statement highlighting why she wants to speak at the UN event on Climate Change: https://drive.google.com/a/apwld.org/file/d/0B02CTlNeUL5qN0NpTDNnS0w2TVU/view?usp=sharing Link of Alina's speech at UN Climate Summit, September 2014, New York, USA (from 22:30'): http://www.un.org/climatechange/summit/2014/08/voices-climate-front-lines/ Link of Alina's intervention at the UN High level event on Climate Change, COP 20, Lima, Peru, December 2014 (from 1:55'): http://www.iisd.ca/videos/climate/cop20/09dec-men-and-women-taking-action-on-gender-equality-and-climate-change-how-far-have-we-come/ | https://drive.google.com/open?id=1tXqwKFgKEg5ASdkBoJiAhazVX-XTUUF3Q77FU-fxpXQ&authuser=0 | apwld.org | |||||
158 | 5/17/2015 7:07:19 | MELOSI | MARIO | Planet Life Economy Foundation Onlus | Italy | Italy | male | 85 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Our Earth must face very soon the global warming and air pollution. Solar Electric Generators convert the kinetic energy in electricity and Electrochemical Thermodynamos.apply the heart' model pulses for high yields in the conversion of electrical/chemical energies. The plants are simple and need small funds, favourable for all Nations especially those which are underdeveloped. The topics are extremely important and the public information and then strong recommendations are needed : ENERGY + HYDROGEN. | Radiometer of Crookes under the lightbeam' actions from concentrated solar power realizes, in top proportion, the <sunmill> i.e. <solar motor> ready to couple an alternator for the production of electricity with high yields kW/kW solar. ENERGY FROM ECO-RENOUVABLE SOURCE Information in Website - http://www.sunmaximumelectricity.it | Melosi is consultant of the PLEF which takes care of the sustainable developments and he guides the research 'projects for the innovations. His technical English is good, writing and speaking. PROFESSIONALISM TO PROJECT & COMMISSION NEW PLANTS About the curriculum vitae see : http://www.sunmaximumelectricity.it | http://www.plef.org/ | |||||||
159 | 5/17/2015 8:48:24 | Kodonyo | Deborah | Trek youth group | kenya | kenyan | female | 23 | English and Swahili | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak at the event because I feel it would be an opportunity to share my story of climate change impacts to someone would hear me out and help come up with more sustainable and reachable goals to face global climate challenges . | While growing up the seasonal river just near my home brought bundles of joy to me and my neighbours .We could play around there and on a rainy season we could hear the sound of the water trickling down the valley.what we didnt ever think of was how that river would ever be encroached .Currently people around the neighbourhood throw their litter just where we used to call our seasonal river.The dirt is blown off by wind and when it rains it all gets washed down by the rain.I gathered a few neighbours where we went to clean it up,reported the case to the officers responsible and put up a warning sign to show that if one was caught throwing litter at that area would be punished.We might not have done everything but we did something to attain a healthy environment that indirectly translates to being economically stable | Deborah Sialo Kodonyo a recent graduate of Environmental science joined the team in March .She is in the team as a volunteer but performs so well in her work.She is an active participant and can perfectly communicate effectively with other stakeholders.Deborah can also speak well in public judging from how she expresses herself even in meetings.it is with great pleasure that I recommend her for that speaking role. | ||||||||
160 | 5/17/2015 10:17:15 | Robert | Justine | TEFA-UDSM | Tanzania | Tanzanian | male | 23 | Kiswahili and English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I have been talking to the youths in different part of Tanzania and even in international youths conference and the exchange program in Europe (Netherlands) in November 2013 with the organization GLOBAL EXPLORATION, but still i would like to spread the word to international world and tell them more about this great and dangerous calamity that is becoming more intense in the whole world.Also i would like to tell the developed nations how their development in Industries has affected the developing nations with no industries and they should reduce their impacts to us developing nations.Global warming has been a great challenge to food security in developing nations hence they should consider the other side of the coin,i would like to reach them and being heard beyond the borders so that we all cross our hands together and create the world which is the better place to every one. | As a young man from Tanzania, a developing nation with a lot of impacts of climate change, i have been working in different parts of Tanzania reaching youth people and the local communities teaching them on environmental affairs and its components.I have been organizing a number of projects and trainings to the local people from Masai lands and Hadzabe people from the northern parts of Tanzania where by livestock keeping is the major economic activity taking place over the area. Now the pastoral societies in Arusha and Manyara regions have stopped the seasonal movement of their cattle from one place to another. the system has existed for years ago and due to the education that we as the youths from these societies have provided to the people we raised the awareness to the local communities.Furthermore I engaged i the project named as Environmental Education for secondary students with the group of youths known as Simanjiro Youth association and raised awareness to more than eight hundred students (800) in five (5) secondary schools and changed totally the attitude of the youth students about environment and its resources and i believe that these youth are going to make the great changes to their societies and conserve the environments and the resources available there. ,therefore these are the stories that i would like to share with the world and show them that its possible to stop the impacts of climate change in the world,its only by committing ourselves to work day and night against the situation. | Justine Robert is a student at the University of Dar es salaam pursuing a bachelor degree in Geography and Environmental Studies,he is from a local Masai community a pastoral society in the northern part of Tanzania.he has joined the TEFA-UDSM since the time he joined the organization and attended a number of workshops,projects and trainings basing environment and has impacted them to the Masai community by educating the youth people and students. He has also representing the youth council of Tefa-udsm in different conferences and currently he is the founder and the coordinator of Simanjiro youths association (SIYOA) and still working with youth in his district Simanjiro. 2.The candidate Justine Robert has met the criteria since he is the youth environmental activist and a university student who spends much of his time to talk to youths and local people,reading and studying much about environmental issues and take into action the practices like planting of trees to the most deteriorated areas.he uses to inspire his community and the youths and he is a courageous young man. 3.Justine Robert is an excellent public speaker who can reason,convince and attract his audience.As a high school student in November 2013 Justine Robert has attended the Global Youth Council exchange program with Global Exploration organization in the Netherlands and represented Tanzania in the conference.Also he has been attending a number of debates on climate change in the university of Dar es salaam and other institutions hence he is a fluent and a courageous public speaker.All these have been a good experience to him and had acquired enough skills on addressing the audience. | www.tefaudsm.org | |||||||
161 | 5/17/2015 10:28:31 | SHAGURI | OBADYA RAY | THE CLIMATE REALITY PROJECT | INDIA | INDIAN | MALE | 23 | ENGLISH, HINDI, TELUGU, URDU, FRENCH AND RUSSIAN | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | i want to speak at the united nations because i want my voice to be heard. 2015 is the momentous and historic year for Climate Action across the world. India has a major role to play at the upcoming climate convention at Paris. I am a trained climate reality leader by Al Gore. Ever since then i have been making presentation. I want to make a momentous and historic impact in my state. I am currently running across the student communities across schools, colleges and universities creating an awareness about climate realities, talking about sustainable development and asking students to sign a pledge of a life long commitment to contribute to environmental conservation and focus towards the use of sustainable energy. We also want to put a pressure on the government to consider climate realities and move towards sustainable energy and development. So speaking at UN GA will empower me and give value to my cause by attracting medias and governments attention towards my climate cause initiative. | I am making presentations among the farmers, educators, entrepreneurs and the leaders to bring awareness about the irrecoverable problem at hand by combining organisational techniques proven by decades of social movements with a twenty-first-century approach through story telling, public speaking, social media networking and grassroots organizing. Through this hundreds and thousands of students are now being made aware about the climate problems, focus towards sustainable development and finally are making a life long commitment of protecting environment by reducing co2 emissions & by using sustainable and alternative sources of clean and green energy. | 1. I am one of the 450+ change makers and global souls who were trained by Al Gore at his 2015 climate reality training corps at New Delhi India. I am empowered to spread the climate reality projects vision of saving the climate. 2. I am a representative of a civil society organization, and officially authorized by their organization/network to speak on the organization/network’s behalf. I can address the relevant topics and guiding questions in the event concept. I have demonstrated ability to engage constructively with a variety of stakeholders. I am also a compelling public speaker. I am available to be in New York on 28-29 June 2015 and for travel if necessary. Finally i am able to obtain U.S visa within 2 weeks for travel to New York. 3. Along with being a climate reality leader i am also: President - Indian Student Parliament Indian Ambassador - Global Student Leaders Co-operation World Scholar & Student and Youth Ambassador- EAN World Congress Visionary & Co-Founder - LA MUN Climate Reality Leader - The Climate Reality Project by Al Gore i have been addressing gatherings of high-minds ranging from a small group to more than 8000+ people at larger gatherings. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiNbXwGH7Rc | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_dZQvW3tFItZ2xaY2F6dDNtSzQ/view?usp=sharing | www.climatereality.org.in | |||||
162 | 5/17/2015 10:57:40 | Nkue Nouwezem | Daniel Jude | Youth Education on Environment (Yedu-Environ) | Cameroun | Camerounais | Male | 26 ans | Français et English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Depuis l’âge de 10 ans je suis émerveillé par le travail effectué par l’ONU de par le monde. Cela est devenu un rêve pour moi de travailler pour les Nations Unies. Je trouve donc ici une opportunité de réaliser un de mes plus grands rêves. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Since the age of 10 I am amazed by the work done by the UN worldwide. This has become a dream for me to work for the United Nations. So here is an opportunity to fulfill one of my biggest dreams. | En 2000 pour la première fois j’ai écouté mes parents se plaindre des perturbations climatiques et de leurs impacts sur les activités agricoles. En effet le niveau de vie familial a chuté à cette époque suite aux mauvaises productions et à la flambé des prix des denrées agroalimentaire sur le marché local. Ainsi en 2008 j’ai été témoin des émeutes de la faim dans mon pays. Ils ont été identifiés comme étant une répercussion des impacts des changements climatiques sur les activités agricole et sur le marché locale. Pour faire face à cette situation, en 2012 j’ai débuté ma carrière de Chercheur à l’Université de Dschang avec pour sujet d’étude « les changements climatique et leurs impacts sur les populations et les activités agricoles dans les hautes terres de l’Ouest ». Mes travaux m’ont valu d’être invité en tant qu’orateur à plusieurs conférences internationales parmi lesquelles je puis citer The World Weather Open Science Conference 2014. "The weather: what’s the outlook " (16 -21 August 2014), Montréal, Canada. Où j’étais invité à présenter un de mes articles intitulé “Agro meteorology, a need for industrializing agriculture in the highlands of western Cameroon”. Au-delà des travaux de recherche, je suis le co-fondateur et président de l’association Yedu-Environ qui est une association à but non lucratif œuvrant en partie à éduquer et former les paysans sur comment faire face aux changements climatique pour booster la production agricole. GOOGLE TRANSLATE In 2000 for the first time I heard my parents complain about the weather disturbances and their impacts on agricultural activities. Indeed the family living at that time fell following poor harvests and food prices soared commodities on the local market. In 2008 I witnessed the riots in my country. They have been identified as an impact of climate change impacts on agricultural activities and the local market. To address this situation, in 2012 I started my career Researcher at the University of Dschang with the subject of study "climate change and its impacts on the populations and agricultural activities in the highlands of Where Is. My work brought me to be invited as a speaker at several international conferences among which I can mention The World Weather Open Science Conference 2014. "The weather: what's the outlook" (16 -21 August 2014), Montreal, Canada. I was invited to one of my articles titled "Agro meteorology, was need for industrializing agriculture in the highlands of western Cameroon." Beyond research, I am the co-founder and president of the association Yedu-Around is a non-profit organization working in part to educate and train farmers on how to deal with climate change to boost the agricultural products. | NKUE NOUWEZEM Daniel Jude is a Socio environmentalist expert, student and junior researcher at the University of Dschang, Cameroon, founder and chairperson of the Youth Education on Environment (Yedu-Environ). Yedu-Environ is a community-based organization, which fullfils the registration requirements of Cameroon and which undertakes development activities on a Non-Profit basis. The goal of the organization is to promote environmental education to the Young. In his capacity as junior environmentalist, Daniel Nkue has carried out research projects and produced articles addressing pressing issues in the Western Region of Cameroon. Some emphasize on the impacts of climate change on key sensitive development sectors such as water resources and agricultural production systems. Others underscored the issues of integrated water resource management in the context of rainfall variability. The said articles were accepted for oral presentation at the International Conference of Biohydrology (20-24 May 2013 in Landau in der Pfalz, Germany); the 2nd International Colloquium on Integrated Water Resources Management (22-23 October 2013 in the University of Batna, Algeria); World Weather Open Science Conference 2014 (August 16-21, 2014 at Montréal, Canada). Through this Daniel Nkue has more than 3 years of working experiences in developing country on Climate change. The above helped him to become acquainted with environmental challenges face by his community. Working with Yedu-Environ, he is frequently called to speak in front of auditorium made of administrative authorities, academicians and diverse panels. By doing so Daniel Nkue acquired good communication skills. Besides this, He is also a consultant for the National Community Driven Development Program / Centre and West Regional units. Daniel Nkue has developed strong leadership skills and team work. NKUE N. Daniel J. has a Bachelor of Science in Physical and Environmental Geography, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Environmental Geography program in the University of Dschang, Cameroon. His goals in the medium to long term bases are to enroll in a PhD program in environmental studies (with focus in protected areas), to build a prominent career in International Organizations such as the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP). | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kszePWDfMqa3hkRDZ6MlUyUGs/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-kszePWDfMqOExfUlhJYndmd1U/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
163 | 5/17/2015 12:18:23 | Barkha | Betty | APWLD | Fiji | Fijian | Female | 24 | English, Hindi, Fijian | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Developing countries, especially the Pacific Islands, are the worst to suffer consequences of climate change and natural disasters. The recent cyclone Pam in Vanuatu, the recent king tides in Kiribati and general sea rise levels are the worst security threat in the Pacific. I believe it is now time to look into climate change solutions. I do not think it can ever be iterated enough that it is down to the very survival of us in small island states, where natural disasters ruin us very year and takes us down before we recover from the last crisis. For me, I believe it's now time that we empower women to taking leadership roles to fight climate change and being resilient leaders for sustainable development in our communities. I want to say that what works at the coalface of climate change is ensuring women have the capacity, voice and power to collectively shape climate and development policies. We need to listen to the women of the Global South and learn from their knowledge, their capacity to work collectively and their ability to live sustainably. I also believe that I would be a strong voice in representing the Pacific challenges, and more generally the global South call for climate justice and urgency of action. | As a Pacific inhabitant, climate change is an issue that particularly affects me. Joining APWLD in 2014, I have focused my work on the climate justice programme, especially through the Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR). The FPAR programme is designed to empower grassroots women from some of the most affected communities to increase their leadership, collective power and influence to shape climate and development policies. We have been working with nine communities across Asia Pacific building knowledge and providing advocacy opportunities at the local, regional and international level. I've seen the great results of such a programme and the power of local actions to tackle climate change. For instance, we worked with women that have been displaced from the Carteret Islands due to sea-level rise. They now live in resettlement camps in war-ravaged Bougainville and face high levels of food insecurity and illness as well as infant and maternal mortality. Through the programme, women organized themselves and are now actively shaping the policies of the local government to address their needs. They are pushing for the implementation of an early-warning system for environmental disasters and a facility to serve as a medical center and a transit house to accommodate the steady influx of displaced Carteret Islanders. These initiatives are the ones addressing the realities of climate change on the ground and need to be told and spread out. | I am a young activist from the Pacific with over 5 years of professional experience in human rights, women's empowerment, climate change and sustainable development in the Asia Pacific region. Having completed my Masters in India and working with various civil society organisations in the region, I have joined APWLD as a Programme Associate for a six months period, working mainly on the climate justice FPAR programme. I have also attended a consultation organized by Asia Pacific Women's Alliance for Peace and Security (APWAPS) in Nepal and I highlighted that climate change and natural disasters are direct threatens to women's security. As a result, I have been appointed as the youth focal point on the steering committee of the APWAPS alliance. I have already spoken in front of international audience, particularly my public speaking experience at the United Nations High Level Ministerial Meeting where governments from Asia Pacific gathered to review the implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action adopted in 1995. I spoke in front of more than 130 ministers as a young woman from the Pacific pointing out the lack of implementation of their commitments on women's rights. I am now working with the Young Women's program in Fiji which looks into building a strong movement of young leaders across fields. | Betty's statement: https://drive.google.com/a/apwld.org/file/d/0B02CTlNeUL5qcUgyZzhGdXhNZmc/view?usp=sharing | https://docs.google.com/a/apwld.org/document/d/14knwQta1hvv-G7CBd_YzgPNb7TiqF5c-GvD8AQqhgtM/edit?usp=sharing | apwld.org | |||||
164 | 5/17/2015 12:36:04 | Nava | Andrea | Fundacion del Bosque Tropical | Guatemala | Guatemalan | female | 16 | Spanish - English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I live in Guatemala, the fourth more vulnerable country in the world to the effects of climate change, but although we are a small country, we are not idle. I will be attending Plant-for-the-Planet’s Youth Summit in May 2015. Youth from around the world, from 25 countries are coming together to develop solutions to ensure our survival and want to send a strong message to the world’s leaders, who will be meeting a few days later at the G7 Summit and Bilderberg conference, both of which are just 40 miles away from our Youth Summit in Tutzing, Germany. With this opportunity I would like to address our recommended solutions to the UN General Assembly. It is the children of the world that can bring about change. | I am an active member of Plant-for-the-Planet. Plant-for-the-Planet is a children and youth organization that is active globally, and their one-day Academies have been organised in 48 countries around the world to date, resulting in more than 36,000 Climate Justice Ambassadors. I have attended and helped organise Plant-for-the-Planet Academies in Guatemala, with what we have achieved largest amount of planted trees and more care of them. Greater participation of children, included adults, in different areas in my country, thanks to the work of environmental awareness and promoting leadership, giving workshops, and managing the necessary for planting: areas for planting, force work and plants. We all give regular presentations on the issues of the climate crisis and the survival of our generation. We are actively involved in the global discussion on this topic and are spreading the message and motivating others all over the world to join our global network in our fight for survival. We want to be 1,000,000 strong by 2020. We also plant trees under our slogan “Stop talking. Start planting” and are the custodians of the Billion Tree Campaign, which was handed over to us children and youth in 2011 by the United Nations Environment Programme. We have a target of planting 1000 billion trees by 2020, as trees are the only “machines” that can bind CO2. | My name is Andrea Nava, represent Tropical Rainforest Foundation in Guatemala I'm environmentalist. Since childhood I have been in contact with nature and I'm concerned about its protection and preservation. I am the creator of the reforestation project "Name a tree" is raise awareness, and plant trees. I joined to Plant for the Planet Campaign at the World Conference TUNZA 2009, where I was appointed ambassador from my country by UNEP and I was invited to present my project. With the support of the Tropical Forest Foundation in my country, in 2009, I organize The Climatic Week in Guatemala, I made differents environmental activities, and trainer over 100 children to work on the project PNA and Plant for the Planet. With children from Dominican Republic and Mexico, we visited government officials and celebrities to support the campaign, we, paint murals, collect for affected people by climatic problems in my country, among other activities . I participated as speaker at the meeting with Environment Ministers of Central America held in the Embassy of France in Guatemala, before cop15. I was invited to present my reforestation project, in Osterbrolle Lille School and others schools in Denmark, and I participed in a International camp "Think Talk". In the year 2010 with the Campaigne "Reforestando Guatemaya" the movement Aj Tzuj and Plant for the Planet, we conducted academies and we planted 5.2 millons trees in my country. In 2010 I was invited to present the PNA project and Plant for the Planet campaign in the “Congreso Mundial sobre Cambio Climatico” Nayarit, Mexico, to more than 200 children and teachers from around the world. In the same year, I was invited to share the reforestation the Hanover-Upper Frederick Elementary school and Caley School in Philadelphia USA. In 2012 was once again appointed ambassador of my country by UNEP to World Conference TUNZA 2011 in Indonesia I have been participation in a TV program to children in my country, reporting environmental news from Guatemala and the world in my country. I received the order "Erick Barrondo" in my country, thank God and the work of environmental consciousness that I made. Recently I participated as speaker with a motivation talk for the conference TEDx in my country. My compromis is with God who gave us a wonderful planet to care, with my country, with my family and with all the children from the world because we are the future generation, that should work on Now. | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive?ltmpl=drive | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6tehZM8CNDjZllKeTVtX1lpVkU/view?usp=sharing | http://www.tropicalrainforest.org/ | |||||
165 | 5/17/2015 13:11:15 | Fauzi | Muhammad | IAAS (International Association of students in Agricultural & related Sciences) | Indonesia | Indonesian | Male | 18 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | So I hope, I can share my story in this forum about the handling of environmental issues, which is the issue of climate change. That are by some strategies, such as through writing, and make an integrated system among the government, private sector, and society, as I have done while I completed an environmental problems in the West Nusa Tenggara. | I have become a volunteer for the prevention of environmental damage in gold mining in region of West Nusa Tenggara, formed by West Nusa Tenggara Public Work Department. My role in this activity was became a field researcher as well as a volunteer to socialize the dangers of mercury wastes and environmental destruction generated by the PT. Newmont (gold mine in Sumbawa, of West Nusa Tenggara) for the health of the surrounding community. As long as a field researcher, I produced some writings, such as scientific papers titled "will be the Minamata disease happend again", which contains the author's opinion about the impact of mercury on the health of the public, which has happened in Japan a few years ago. And my hope in this scientific paper was to appeal to government authorities about the negative impact of waste produced by PT Newmont Nusa Tenggara (gold mining company) that damage the young generation of Indonesia. So, I hope, disastrous Minamata disease does not recur in my area in West Nusa Tenggara. I volunteer in this event for 3 months. And my scientific papers was successful in getting the government of West Nusa Tenggara and PT. Newmont Nusa Tenggara to provide clean water to all citizens around the mining area in every day till now. And so forth. | Muhammad Fauzi is the leader of researcher in the IAAS Local Committee University of Brawijaya in 2015, which is conducting research about the impact of forest fires in Indonesia, along with 27 other members. This research is one of the projects owned by IAAS LC UB in 2015. Although he is a student in the Department of International Relations, he is able in trust by all members of IAAS LC UB researchers to become chairman in 2015, because her experiences of research in the field of science are very much. He has conducted many researches on Indonesian and international problems. he has also published many scientific articles, papers, essays, such: “To build the glory of maritime country in the infrastucture and transportation development context“, “Some population problems in West Nusa Tenggara”, “the development of ecotourism in Batujai Reservoir in Central Lombok Regency“, “How do our role as citizens of the earth for creating the world peace“, “To gain the tourims potential to improve the economic income of West Nusa Tenggara society“,"will be the minamata disease happend again", and many more. He also has high knowledge about climate change, because he is doing a research about "Climate Change Caused by Forest Fires in West Nusa Tenggara". So he can share his ideas about the problem solves of climate change to this forum. Beside that, he has got 2nd place in national speech contest about environment which was held by Indonesian Minister of Environment and Forestry in Jakarta in 2014. And was became the speaker in the regional and national forums. | My blog about the results of my research on climate change : http://myscientificpapers.blogspot.com/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9w1gyt5O9t6Z0ZDdHhVbzU3MWs/view?usp=sharing | http://www.iaas-lcub.org/# | |||||
166 | 5/17/2015 13:33:56 | Kurowski | Per | New Rules for Global Finance | USA/Venezuela | Venezuela/Poland | http://www.new-rules.org | 65 | Spanish, English and Swedish | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Why not equity requirements for banks based on MDGs and SDGs? Current bank regulations include something known as credit-risk-weighted capital requirements. These in essence mean that banks need to hold more equity when financing something “risky” than when financing something “safe”. And that results in that banks will earn higher risk-adjusted returns on equity when lending to what is perceived as safe, than when lending to what is perceived as risky. Because being perceived as safe or risky has nothing to do with the importance of receiving a credit, that serves no purpose. That results in banks financing too much what is perceived as safe, and because all major bank crises only derive from excessive exposures to something that has erroneously been perceived as safe, that is also dangerous. I am here today in order to beg the United Nations to beg bank regulators, like those in the Basel Committee for Banking Supervision, to introduce some purpose for the banks in their regulations. And therefore, instead of credit risk weights, I suggest they begin to use sustainability, job creation or poverty reduction weights... why not MDGs and SDGs weights? That would allow banks to make higher returns on equity when they are doing something good for the society. That would justify the support we taxpayers lend to the banks in times of difficulties. Just being a safe mattress in which to stack away our savings does not. | I have not been involved in some successful local climate action... that is not my forte. | @PerKurowski A former Executive of the World Bank (2002-2004) http://ourpiedaterre.blogspot.com http://financefordevelopment.blogspot.com http://theoilcurse.blogspot.com In 2007 I tried to make my voice heard on the issue of the distortions in access to bank credit caused by credit-risk-weighted equity requirements for banks, without much response. More-risk-more-equity and less-risk-less-equity seems intuitively to be so correct that Daniel Kahneman's System II, never has a chance to begin its deliberations. http://www.un.org/esa/ffd/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/3HLD_UN_FFD_Statement_Basel_Accord.pdf Of course I hope to be granted an opportunity to speak on this so ignored issue... but if that is impossible please allow me to post a document on it, in direct reference to that debate. Thanks | ||||||||
167 | 5/17/2015 14:00:32 | Wadongo | Evans | Sustainable Development For All | Kenya | Kenya | Male | 29 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Evans would be able to speak about: The role of local community focused initiatives and social entrepreneurs in creating green jobs and combating climate change - He will highlight the challenges, benefits and examples of existing solutions, and the policies that need to considered to support this. | Evans Wadongo, grew up in a mud home in Malava, Kenya with no electricity or running water. In order to study, Evans had to compete with his siblings for use of a single kerosene lamp. Eventually, his constant exposure to the fumes of kerosene lamps led to damage to his eyes, and his vision has been impaired. At 19, he designed a simple solar powered lantern out of mostly recycled materials such as scrap metals. Through his ‘Use Solar, Save Lives’ program he has produced and distributed thousands of his solar lamps to rural and he is helping women initiate income generating ventures from funds saved through no longer needing to purchase kerosene. The program is also aiding children in pastoralist communities to access education by attending night classes facilitated by the solar lanterns. The lamps are made by youth who dropped out of school due to poverty, and then distributed to women. The women then set up economic ventures and are then encouraged to invest- using proceeds from the eocnomci ventures- in other green technologies such as biogas for cooking. To date, Evans’ organization, Sustainable Development For All has trained over 1000 youths, and impacted over 300,000 rural communities in Kenya, and Malawi. Considering that 1 litre of kerosene produces approximately 2.6Kgs of Carbon Dioxide, this project has helped eliminate over 30,000 Metric tonnes of Carbon Dioxide in the last 5 years. This program is in deed a comjunity focussed climate action initiative. | Mr. Evans Wadongo, 29, is a co-founder at GreenWize Energy, which is advancing cutting edge African designed renewable energy products and solutions in Sub Saharan Africa. He is also the founder and Executive Director of Sustainable Development For All, that has helped lift thousands of mostly rural people out of poverty. Wadongo grew up in a rural village in western Kenya before earning a BSc. (Honors) in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. At 19, he invented the first-ever African designed solar lamp, dubbed MwangaBora®. Mr. Wadongo has received various global awards including CNN Hero, Outstanding Social Entrepreneur in Africa, Pan Commonwealth Youth Award, Mikhail Gorbachev Award for Man Who Changed the World, named among Africa’s ’30 under 30’ best young entrepreneurs by Forbes, listed among top 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review, named among 20 Men who will shape the next 20 years by UK's Esquire magazine, among many other awards. He is also a 2014 Aspen Institute New Voices Fellow and a Torch Bearer at the 2012 London Olympics. Wadongo has been featured in major international media platforms such as CNN, BBC, Reuters, AFP, France 24, CCTV, New Yorker, Al Jazeera, Guardian, Financial Times, among others. Mr. Wadongo is a renowned international speaker at major conferences and schools around the world such as Global Entrepreneurship Summit, African Development Forum, Clinton Global Initiative-University, Climate Reality, IE Business School, London School of Economics, University of Washington, among others. Mr. Wadongo is also an advisor to several start-up social enterprises and was a mentor for Cherie Blair Foundation for Women. He is currently a mentor for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program. Mr. Wadongo has a US Visa, and has engaged with various stakeholders on issues of climate change in many occasions. | Some links to Evans speaking publicly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tu6UycODBo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfNzxau_iwM http://www.cgiu.org/multimedia/webcasts/2013/view_webcast.asp?id=15 | |||||||
168 | 5/17/2015 15:39:22 | Guemri | Yasmine | GirlUp Tunisia | Tunisia | Tunisian | Female | 17 | Arabic, French, English & German | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The North African region contains large areas with hot, dry summers and rainy winters. I live in Tunisia, and from 3 years now that we suffer from floods each winter that is causing damages on many areas in the country and according to experts in terms of vulnerabilities , the cumulative result of these changes seems to be a population reduction of exposure in many areas due to the danger that is facing them from the nature’s disasters, which ended up causing homelessness. Not only the erosions in the western north area of Tunisia which are leading the arid rangeland to the possibility of losing its vegetation by 50 %, but also we have some serious droughts in the south of the country that shows a danger on people who live in these areas. I want to talk in the United Nations, not as an expert, but as a young thinker and a concerned person who wants to solve the worldwide climate crisis as that I see my country and the world in danger.I am someone who gives a tremendous value to human rights, which maintains to me that having a clean air and a livable climate are both chief human rights and I also see that if our ecosystem is going to be harmed, our financial balance will be included as well which will be aggrieving other different fields by return. I see that the world should be aware of the danger of climate change during this century for the sake of the next generations and I want to take the engagement to help with combatting this problem as a young person because it pertains to my future. Also, I'm so sure that this will be a lifetime experience. | As that the Tunisian Government is willing to find sollutions for the environmental issues in the country, asking for volunteers I found myself providing an example of the wanted criteria of the participants which leaded to a successful volunteering experience by giving much time for reaserches that were held in the National Institute of the Agroculture Reaserches of Tunisia. Working on a strategic fodder project that maintains some efficient tool to combat destrification in the North African region. Helped also with organizing the Earth Hour Tunisia 2015 which was successfully passed. Organized an event in Ariana City to the high school students to emphasize the role of a good ecosystem to maintain good financial balance. | Yasmine Guemri, 17 years old mathematics’ high school student from Tunisia. She has a huge interest In the field of Human Rights, Security&Defense topics. Vice President of the JCI Ariana Junior in 2013 and a member at present. Awarded as the best delegate in Montenegro International Model United Nations as it was the first debating experience. A volunteer with the WWF North African Office and with the Ian Somerhalder Foundation. An active member in the United Nations’ organization GirlUp Tunisia. Awarded as Miss of Ariana City at the age of 11 for speaking fluently 3 languages in an early age which encouraged her to follow her interest of the environmental topics in elementary school when she leaded the Environmental Club of Ariana. Poetry writer, and National Sfax Radio animator of a cultural patriotism program for youth in 2013. | Definitely excellent public speaking skills. Have been animating a radio program for the youth division (National Radio of Sfax) and awarded as the best delegate in MiMUN2015 as it was the first debating experience. Talk fluently 4 languages (Ar,Fr,En,De) and have a very excellent accent in english. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8EatUQk3O_HQ0Y0VnhUTWNDMm8/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
169 | 5/17/2015 16:20:32 | Muli | Lawrence | African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) | Ethiopia | Kenyan | Male | 28 | English, Swahili | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Having represented Africa within continental forums on Climate Change i believe it would be mutually beneficial to expand the call for action on climate change. In mid June, i will be the African youth speaker in an climate change intergenerational dialogue with African leaders on a side event to the African Union Heads of States Summit, dubbed "Pan African Food and Climate Justice Campaign". I believe the UN PGA event will offer the highest pedestal and create the opportunity to further amplify the priorities of young people especially those in the Global South in ensuring we can hold our governments accountable and further resonate the key message of our demands ahead of Cop21. | As a Founding Member and now the Partnerships and Networking Advisor of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (www.ayicc.net) I have been at the center of advocacy and coordination of action on climate change on behalf of over 50,000 young African’s spread across over 2,500 youth led member organizations in Africa spread out across 48 Member States in Africa. I am currently coordinating Africa's Youth Working Group for Cop21 prioritizing key messages and public campaign mobilizations in partnership with Oxfam and The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance. As an Environmental Science student, I started off as a youth representative in Kenya’s Climate Change Response Strategy working group ahead of Cop15 in Copenhagen. Now working as a youth specialist on Agriculture and Climate Change under programmes in the African Union, I have been responsible for promoting youth engagement prioritizing civic liberties, achieve a deepened citizenship agency and promote democratic meaningful engagement of youth in climate related processes in Africa. In January 2015 I assisted in the formation of the Climate Development Youth Platform under the African Climate Policy Center in the UN Economic Commission of Africa, and spoke in the first ever intergenerational dialogue on Climate Change in Africa dubbed “Road to Paris” alongside the IPCC Chair, Ambassador of France to Africa on Cop21 and presented the youth statement on behalf of AYICC. | Mr. Lawrence Muli is an Environmental Sustainability Expert and Climate Change Activist. He is a founding member and now the Partnerships and Networking Advisor of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (www.ayicc.net) .He currently coordinates Policy and Programmes work of The African Observatory for Policy Practice and Youth Studies. A policy think tank that enhances evidence based policy making and programing on youth development issues in Africa in partnership with intergovernmental institutions focusing on Transformational Agriculture and Climate Change issues. Prior to this for 3 years, Mr. Ndambuki worked as a Policy Advocate in the Youth Division of the African Union Commission and has also consulted with the UN Economic Commission for Africa on issues of climate policy and finance, youth population and development. Mr. Ndambuki has a Masters in Public Policy & Management from the University of London with an Environmental Science and Climate Change undergraduate background from Kenyatta University in his country Kenya. Mr. Ndambuki has been a speaker on youth issues for the past 5 years (See list attached on CV) and most recently the Speaker at the French Organized "Road to Paris" conference convened by the African Climate Policy Center at the UN Economic Commission for Africa and a panelist in the Fourth Climate Change for Development Conference in Marakech, Morocco. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR4iL-fOGpg | Conferences with Speaking Roles May 2015: Youth Speaker on behalf of African Youth Initiative on Climate Change at the High Level Ambassadors Event on Climate Change, preparatory meeting to the AU Heads of States Committee on Climate Change Meeting. Co-organized with Oxfam and The Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA) July 2014: Represented Africa’s youth highlighting the talent pipeline and potential fiscal value of youth in agro-entrepreneurship at the Agribusiness Forum side event prior to the AU Heads of States Summit, Malabo, Equatorial Guinea June 2012: Coordinated Africa's Youth participation at the Rio+20 Sustainable Development conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil December 2009: Coordinated Africa's students Environmental Networks in participating in the 15th UN Conference of Parties (COP15) Climate Change Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark | www.ayicc.net | |||||
170 | 5/17/2015 16:38:54 | Bandilli | Marsida | Beyond Barriers Organization | Belgium | Albania | Female | 27 | English, French, Italian, Spanish, Albanian, Dutch | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change is one of the major global challenges. I am confident, my great public skills will convey to bring the right message to decision-makers, for: 1. A unified platform for climate change across states - internationally; 2. A mobilization of a variety of financial resources leading to capacity-building for addressing this issue; 3. The urgent need to deal with greenhouse emissions, and the importance state leaders get this message; 4. The sharing of concrete initiatives of stakeholders and individuals - who contribute through their actions for the protection of environment, nature and forest 5. The realization of a video namely: "The future we want", where people all around the globe share what they require decision-makers to hear from them. Not more than 3 minutes, the video will embed opinions about climate and environment. Cause the future, starts today 6. Concluding with: "This is our future. We build it together, and it starts now. Can we all hear each-other, appreciate what nature has given to us, through protecting it? Sharing of kindness, cooperation, a good and strong-will to bring positive change. Yes, all together we can do it " | I was awarded the Active Citizen of Europe, for the work I have been doing to the promotion of tolerance, youth activism and leadership all around the continent. Being deeply concerned with issues regarding well-being of people, youth activism, human rights and women's rights - I was able to make my point and my work visible throughout the years. I have been organizing campaigns in Albania - for promoting volunteering, disability, environment and climate change. I am still part of Beyond Barriers organization, where I offer my continuous support to organizing events that promote leadership, equal participation of young people in society, and their general empowerment. I have been a speaker in many events, where I have come to the opportunity of delivering my message across important politicians and European leaders. I am a believer that only through good work, connecting people and communities, delivering impressionable speeches, enhancing a sense of constructive debates - we are all able to contribute for building a brighter future. It takes a bit of courage to challenge, and pose questions - other people wouldn't do. I am fierce to say: I would take the speaker position as a great honor, I would bring a concise message and a heartwarming interpretation, for bringing the climate change issue - as the top-priority agenda for politicians, economists, academics, stakeholders, government representatives and many other people. | Marsida is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. She was awarded an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, financed by the European Commission. Her research interest revolve around: Europe2020 Strategy, European Integration and EU Policies, Interest Groups Politics etc. She is engaged with the work of the European Union’s institutions as well. She has a major in Political Science. She has been awarded a Summa Cum Laude (Golden Medal) from the University of Tirana, Albania. In addition, she held the Assistant Professor Position at the University of Tirana, Department of Political Science. She is the winner of the Active Citizens of Europe Award, 2014. She is an active, committed member of many networks and organisations all over Europe.Being an ambassador of her country, she always mirrored the example of hard-working women exclusively in international training, seminars and other related activities. Many programmes have contributed to shape her personality and leadership attitudes, such as the Leadership Development Programme, Youth in Action Programme Activities, FutureLab Europe, European Forum Alpbach, World Merit etc. | Acceptance Speech, Active Citizens of Europe Award 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8saYpG3ByHw Talking about Democracy at the Council of Europe, 2014 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGNqrN4fh78 | https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2v2zS2UGNDBOFJCVk5FS0U0S1E/edit | www.beyondbarriers.org | |||||
171 | 5/17/2015 16:40:00 | Constable | Ayesha | Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network (CYCN) | Jamaica | Jamaican | Female | 30 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to speak at this event because I have a genuine passion and interest in the subject of climate change and more so how it affects people and the more vulnerable in our societies. My interest is fueled by the fact that I reside in a SIDS that is very vulnerable to climate change and already we are feeling the impacts of related environmental and economic impacts on the poorest members of our societies- small farmers, fisher men and other agriculture related livelihoods. I want to speak because I know of the threat this poses to employment and other social issues in our society, but also to food security. The same is true for other SIDS and small countries around the world. In some places in Asia and Africa the challenges are even more grave and significant. I understand the lived realities of people who are at the mercy of the elements. I understand the science of climate change and the role of natural climate change drivers but I know that 21st century climate change is driven by anthropogenic forces – making climate change as much natural as it is man-made. We therefore have the power to reduce the impacts and protect the most vulnerable in society by implementing effective adaptation strategies, enforcing strong mitigation measures and engaging all stakeholders to do their part. I want everyone to see themselves as stakeholder in the process. We need to accept our responsibility for the state of the climate and own our roles in addressing the issues. | Have staged a number of actions locally and been a part of several local and global movements to bring awareness to climate change and to inspire action. Locally have led efforts to engage youth in climate change initiatives such as environmental activities or training on climate change and to mobilize stakeholders at the grassroots level. Has also successfully encouraged greater focus on the gender dimensions of climate change. All my efforts locally led me to join the Global Power Shift movement which seeks to raise awareness about the use of fossil fuels and calls for a reduction in the use of same. I was one of 5 Power Shifters selected in the Caribbean and we have all launched projects including renewable energy initiatives, building awareness and capacity among youth for equality and water related projects to pursue more sustainable paths to address climate change issues in the region and globally. Another initiative saw me engaging locals in a rural community of Jamaica in an effort to build awareness of these otherwise disconnected folks to climate change. My work also revealed the value of local and indigenous knowledge in devising adaptation strategies. I used my work there to enter a contest hosted by Connect4Climate to share with the world local challenges and opportunities as related to climate change within the context of the developing world. More at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYS9neAKNHQ | Has worked with NGOs developing proposals for environmental projects and with the Ministry of Land and Environment, as a programme assistant, overseeing the development of a policy document on development approval in Jamaica. Studied Geography at the undergraduate and graduate level. Has done research on forestry and climate change and currently contributing to the national climate change adaptation sectorial plan. Member of several organizations that work with environment, youth and climate change. Member of the Caribbean Youth Environment Network, the Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network, the 350.org movement, council member of the Jamaica Geographical Society, Caribbean Representative of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network, member of the Young Professionals for Agricultural Development. Actively involved in the leadership of several key organizations- many of them youth led and youth focused, including environmental NGOs and girls and women focused organizations. Works closely with other NGOs and governmental bodies to devise and implement plans to mobilize and engage stakeholders on development issues. Has been featured locally and regionally as a young person of influence and promise. Respected among her peers for her work as a youth leader, speaker and climate change researcher. Has actively sought opportunities to get involved in climate change work and attend forums that afford a chance to learn and share knowledge. Worked with The Verb, a climate change newswire services to write climate change related stories at COP20 in Peru. Was a member of the youth panel at a side event this illustrious event. Has spoken at a number of public events in various capacities- has made numerous academic presentations on climate change at various conferences such as Global Power Shift in Turkey, Association of American Geographers in New York, Food Security and Climate Change Resilience Workshop in Kingston and at smaller meetings in the region. Has facilitated several workshops and training events both related and unrelated to climate change. Has conducted training events with youth on leadership and with older audiences on various other topics. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYS9neAKNHQ | www.youthclimate.org.uk | ||||||
172 | 5/17/2015 16:56:32 | Oriabure | Mcanthony | Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research | Nigeria | Nigerian | Male | 15 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Its an opportunity to for a child from the Young Researchers forum to participate in a UN climate event. It will encourage other Young Researchers. | Ongoing programme on Climate Education for Teens and Teens plant a tree | the Nominee is a secondary school student and is a member of the Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research Young Researchers Forum. | ||||||||
173 | 5/17/2015 16:57:28 | Kamau | Mary | Kenya Young Greens | Kenya | Kenyan | Female | 23 | English & Swahili | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to stand at the forum and tell developing countries to start developing sustainably and avoid the mistakes that were made by developing countries while developing; but we know that and are not developing sustainably. When are we going to start doing it? And I want to tell developed countries to sign treaties and increase the adaptation fund for countries being affected most by climate change. But that has been happening. Treaties have been signed, adaptation funds increased, but climate change isn’t getting any better. And how best do we monitor the utilization of the adaptation fund, to ensure people on the ground most affected by climate change are the actual benefits? So what is happening differently at Road to Paris? That will bring change. That at least in the next 10 years we’ll say, in 2015, leaders sat, and agreed and for ten years have implemented. In 2014/2015 I participated in an exchange project on climate justice from a north-south perspective. Spent four months visiting high school students in Norway and following year the same in Kenya. I'll be speaking for myself and for them. What do young people from both Norway and Kenya between 11- 20 years old think about climate change? Who do they think is responsible? And what actions can be done? In my own small way I have compiled some suggestions that stood out, and the messages young people wanted to send to their leaders. In this forum, I will voice myself and them. And of course, I will share my local success story on climate change. | In 2014, I had a chance to intern at an NGO that had a project on Climate Action Teams spread across Kenya. These teams included high school students; young people living in their communities as well as university and college students. And to me, that was the most genius solution to climate change I've seen at a local level. Because it addressed the problem of climate change, while addressing underlying issues such as poverty, youth unemployment, need for energy etc. Exactly that is what is needed at the local level. Projects that address climate change, while addressing local challenges, because until the local challenges go away, then anything you say about climate change won’t make much sense. So how does one blend climate change while addressing local challenges? There are times we’ve gone to do advocacy on climate change,. We say stuff like people need to use cleaner sources of energy; do not cut down trees, until at some point we realized people were just staring at us. "What do you mean climate change? We are hungry, we need food, and we need jobs.... Another issue, talk about modern weather forecasts, modern farming technologies? What do you mean? What do you mean grow other crops? Maize does well in this area, why change? So the Climate Action Team Project addressed all these issues. And though I was not involved in developing the project, am proud to have taken part in its implementation and I was one of the beneficiaries. | Mary Appophia joined our organization in 2013 then as an intern. She was very dedicated in her work and showed great passion in environmental issues particularly climate change. She would later join us in 2014 after completing her degree in environmental science. Currently she is our Project Assistant at Kenya Young Greens. For the moment she is mostly engaged in a North-South exchange project on climate justice. During her time in the university she has been engaged in climate change issues at the community level. At one time joined CAPSAY(Climate Action Programme for Schools and Youth) where she helped in establishing a university climate action team. She also joined the community climate action team. In 2013 she joined the Kenya Road to COP task force and has since been active following the negotiations and in climate change policy issues. With the crucial Road to Paris being held this year, her keen interest and knowledge on the adaptation fund will be something interesting to share with all present on how best its utilization can be monitored from a Kenyan perspective. In the past two years she has been engaged in climate change advocacy visiting communities, working with climate action teams spreading climate change information. In addition, during the exchange she has been visiting schools in both Norway and Kenya where they've held presentations on climate justice. It has been interesting for our local teams and the schools she visited hearing the perspectives on climate change from a North-South perspective. We feel, it will be great if she shared her experiences at this forum and the different suggestions that came up. She also represents Kenya Young Greens during stakeholder meetings where she speaks on behalf of the organization. So her public speaking skills have been very much harnessed at different forums and levels. She will definitely share a lot at this forum if given the chance, and has good networking and public speaking skills as well as much knowledge on climate change. | https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive | www.kenyayounggreens.org/ | ||||||
174 | 5/17/2015 17:17:17 | Memon | Shahzor | YEW | Pakistan | Pakistani | Male | 18 | English, Urdu, Sindhi | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Speaking for the UN General Assembly Session is a very big opportunity and an honor I want to avail. I believe this event gives me a freedom and a chance to speak about the work I’m most passionate about with other professionals who too are committed for the climate change cause. I want to address all the issues and solutions I know and have done for climate change. I want to share my ideas and perspective with people from other side of the world. I want all the professional climate change workers to know that there are youth who are committed and dedicated to volunteer and take a step towards saving their climate and their planet; to let them know that they are not alone and that youth is with them. I am the representative of all the youth who work passionately for these causes. Other than speaking, I also want to hear from different experienced people on their experiences and advice and stories for climate change. I see it as a two way benefit. I am very confident at speaking and I want to use this confidence for good use. | My name is Shahzor Ali Memon and I have taken a stand to promote climate change. I live in a society where climate change is ignored to be the solutions to the many problems many people are facing and no effort is being done towards it, that is why I started advocating for climate change strategies and took initiatives in local under served communities, schools and even refugees affected by natural disaster. I made aware to the local communities about the simple and easy initiatives to take in order to protect their environment and in schools, I opened small environmental clubs where I also addressed about the issues of mitigation and adaptation but did small activities in the club to instill love for climate and the environment in the heart of children. I did a fundraiser for Thar ( a desert running along India and Pakistan) where I did an on sight project as well through army camp for the drought affected people and did an awareness session to them regarding use of resources and climate friendly strategies. I also had an opportunity to address these issues and solutions in the climate change summit. | Shahzor Ali Memon is an avid change maker. He is a very active member of our society. He always runs ventures and is the first to volunteer. He has done many fundraisers through us and outside. Shahzor is very confident at public speaking. He already has mentored more than 700 children in the city and remote villages. He has been interviewed on Television regarding his team project and Exchange Program. He has served as a country ambassador to US through YES Program. He has done many Environmental projects and Climate Change projects in our society and in under served schools by opening clubs and letting students participate in volunteer activities. | Please approach me through email (nominator) to give you some information and share the video with you due to some reasons. Meanwhile, here are other links of nominee speaking: http://www.wdaz.com/content/breaking-boundaries-pakistan-minnesota http://tune.pk/video/5199428/elections-campaign-for-president-by-shahzor https://www.facebook.com/karachi.usconsulate/posts/10152046243678870 https://www.facebook.com/SalalPhotography/videos/10152487280806884/ | Shahzor Ali Memon Address: Defence Plaza A 201 Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan Email: shahzormemon@yahoo.com Contact: +923332617496 Education: Completed 3 years of high school at Foundation Public School Graduation Date: May 2014 Percentage: 86% Gap Year in USA. Experience: Community Service: More than 175 hours done. FacetoFaith Ambassador: Ambassador to India and Lebanon Kozmoz Ambassador: Pakistan’s Ambassador to work for peace through Kozmoz New Media Ambassador Leaders of Today Global Ambassador Exchange Student from YES Campus Ambassador of the school and member of student Councils Awards: Outstanding Volunteer Service Award by State Department Successful representation of the country by CIEE Selection of fully funded Youth Exchange and Study Program by State Department. Extra Curricular Activities: Volunteering Debate Singing Drama Football Video Production Photography Mentoring and conducting projects. | - | |||||
175 | 5/17/2015 17:21:55 | Tounsi | Mondher | Young Leaders Entrepreneurs | Tunisia | Tunisian | Male | 18 | English, French, Arabic ( German & Spanish basic level) | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As much as I look forward to be a part of this event,I am also impatient to exchange ideas with like-minded people about a topic that relates to where I grew up in (Kasserine, Tunisia’s biggest marginalized area where nature and deemed as an unnecessary thing :As a matter of fact polluting our environment became a source of pride due to how ignorant our society has become.) I am willing to advocate for a cause that I personally believe in. I want to highlight how we should, from now on,defend our world and open the envelope when it comes to sustainability to overcome crucial dangers such as water scarcity, air pollution,food shortage and all menaces to mother nature. Besides,I believe this experience is enriching and eye-opening as it will enhance my knowledge : I am expecting to do my best and represent myself, my region, my country and youth in general . Especially the willing youth advocating for change through education, policies and reforms . On a personal level,I am hoping to to better myself, strengthen my knowledge and build my identity . As a result, I will be able to establish myself as an advocate for climate change and show who I am as as a leader .This is an important issue that I had to deal with and was relentlessly pushed away from it because of people’s lack of knowledge . Moreover, I believe I have what it takes :the confidence, the experience, the thrive, the passion, and the willingness to better our world and make it a better place for us . | YLE & I led many successful projects such as ‘ Bahrek Maydoumch’ which represented a massive beach cleaning campaign, besides some other initiatives like tree-plantings, encouraging citizens to recycle, buying local trash cans and distributing them on municipalities (Due to lack of resources).But our biggest accomplishment has to be the survey we conducted on health and nature.As a winning group of MDI by the world bank we had to create a survey and ask 500 citizens about their opinion on the huge wastes poured down into water, to be more precise in Kasserine where the halfa plant (Stipa tenacissima) is being used for paper creation in the biggest factory in NA.The response was negative and we reported it to high authorities who promised to filter the smoke. Besides, we called for a halfa plant recycing campaign and called for an event where we encouraged enterprises to support our cause to use Halfa wastes and create cups, spoons, home-made tools and anything related to environmentally-friendly decoration instead of pouring them into water . Currently,we are being challenged to make our project SWAN a reality,: we aim to sign a petition with all local coffee owners to use recycled halfa cups to strengthen the economy of our state and encourage other areas to follow this model . | Mondher Tounsi is an 18 year old social entrepreneur and human rights activist from Kasserine, Tunisia. He is one of the co-founders of Tunis’s largest youth association Young Leaders Entrepreneurs : It targets young leaders and aims to empower youth on activism, leadership and sustainability through initiatives such as summits, panels, and events that implement youth into civic society and make them familiar with the concepts of leadership and sustainability by maintaining a healthy life style and getting involved in society with small actions such as trainings, cleaning campaigns, workshops to introduce the notion of climate change to excluded youth from remote areas…etc . Mondher was selected among 3000 applicants to receive the prestigious Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange And Study Program scholarship by the US Department Of State and spent one academic year in the States where he received 5 certificates : Extraordinary achievement of volunteerism, extraordinary public speaking skills , extraordinary effort during international education week , successful completion of the program, and his graduation diploma (despite being 16 at the time). During his exchange year in the US he took part in different initiatives and associations : he was able to do more than 100 hours of community service and 335 presentations and got awarded for them as previously mentioned , this included activities such as cleaning & recycling campaigns, tree plantings, hosting trainings to sensitize about the topic of development and climate change , cooking for homeless shelters, being an observer in a marathon…and so on . He also was one of the members of two major clubs in his high school ( Global Relations and Friends Of Nature ) where he learned to build a mutual understanding as youth and help create a bond among them . In Tunisia, and as the co-founder of YLE, he was able to pull off many events that focus on leadership and the implementation of activists within societies and nature, examples of that would be : One Billion Rising Countdown First & Second Edition and She Startup . He was also the leading member and speaker of the first ever winning team of the MDI by the World Bank in Tunisia . Recently, Mondher was invited to attend the High-Level Event organized by the President of the General Assembly in coordination with the Office of the United Nations Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth and United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QdloTvA1i5M3FsUVp4LWJBcnM/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7QdloTvA1i5ZlVPbTBZY3ZndEU/view?usp=sharing | http://youngleadersentrepreneurs.blogspot.com/ | |||||
176 | 5/17/2015 17:22:47 | Odigie-Emmanuel | Omoyemen Lucia | Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research | Nigeria | Nigerian | Female | 41 | English | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Talking in this event will be an opportunity to compel stakeholders to to commit to ambitious actions on mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation because they will understand the issues better and the need for ambitious action. | I am one of the founders of the Centre for Human Rights and Climate Change Research and have been involved in Climate Change education, Advocacy and Research since 2006. My ongoing PHD thesis is on Climate Change Adaptation. The Centre for Human rights have also been involved in Mobilizing stakeholders for ambitious actions on mitigation, adaptation and means of implementation through its education, advocacy and policy action. I am a member of GenderCC-women for climate justice and a member of the Women Gender Constituency. I have undertaken climate change education projects in schools and communities. I have also written the following climate change related publications: Climate Change and Human Security: A Gender Perspective in Climate Change and Human Security in Nigeria”, Nigerian Institute of International Affairs; The Gendered Impact of Climate Change in Nigeria” in Gender and Climate Change: An Introduction, Earthscan Publishers 4.Environmental Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Nigerian Oil Sector: A Case Study of Ogoni land 5. Environmental Justice and Poverty Alleviation: Road Map to Sustainable Development in Nigeria, NIALS Journal of Law and Public Policy 6. Implication of Climate Change for Human Rights in Nigeria”, Human Rights Review 7. Economic Analysis of Climate Change Policies: The Cost of Adaptation and REDD, Legal science Journal | I am the president of the Centre for Human rights and Climate Change Research and coordinate the rights and climate change programme. I am comfortable with public speaking and have been involved in trainings and public speaking since secondary where I was actively involved in the literary and debating society. I have also been trainer and facilitator since 2006. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzy7aujjVRpISmFUZjFYMmlkTmM/view?usp=sharing | |||||||
177 | 5/17/2015 18:40:16 | Jayathissa | Prageeth | Climate-KIC Alumni Association | Switzerland | New Zealand, Sri Lankan | Male | 26 | English, German | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I want to share my experience on mobilising a community to tackle issues of climate change from an entrepreneurial perspective and how others are capable of doing the same. I want to share an insight in how people can reduce global CO2 emissions and also create jobs, and drive the economy. As a voice for the community I also want to present challenges that our members have when finding solutions to tackle climate change. | Climate change is not a problem but a complex case consisting of many individual problems that need to be specifically targeted. And these problems cannot be solved by just a few leaders but requires the innovative collaboration of the masses to come up with solutions. Solutions that are not just socially beneficial but also generate profit allowing it to scale with the economy, transitioning the world to an innovative based economy. Since 2012, we have been voluntarily developing the Climate-KIC Alumni Association (CKAA). A European community of over 1000 entrepreneurs finding solutions to tackle climate change. Entrepreneurs that hail from the top universities that Europe as to offer, with a diverse range of skillets that develop businesses from food recycling companies to energy generation technologies. We essentially formed the community of our partner, Climate-KIC, Europe’s largest climate initiative. During 2014 I was the Chairman of the CKAA where we began developing various programs to support members of the community. We have introduced mentoring programs, consultancy services, networking events, and begun our international relations to grow even further. Now, 4 years on, our Alumni are no longer just emerging entrepreneurs. Some have developed established companies, others have moved into academia, and some have even entered the political sphere. It is a community of change makers that are creating the portfolio of solutions to tackle the problems of climate change | 1) Role in the Organisation In 2014 Prageeth was the president of the Climate-KIC Alumni Association, and now remains as an advisor to the current president. He has also been active in voluntarily supporting activities within Climate-KIC itself. He is a member of the steering committee of the Climate-KIC Innovation Festival, and in late 2014 he initiated discussions with the New Zealand Ministry of Business to introduce the first non-european chapter of Climate-KIC which is now starting to gather momentum. 2) How he meets the criteria Prageeth is an inspirational speaker and has a wealth of experience in Climate Innovation from his times as the President of the Climate-KIC Alumni Association. He is especially passionate in transitioning society from an industrial based economy to an innovation based economy. A society where individual people start their own ventures that simultaneously can tackle problems in the world, such as those associated with climate change. As his primary job, he is conducting research at the ETH Zürich in the efficient integration of photovoltaic energy systems to the existing building stock, with case studies in Switzerland. 3) Comfort with Public Speaking Prageeth is an aquatinted public speaker and can comfortably speak in front of large audiences. As the former president of the Climate-KIC Alumni Association he would move from city to city and give motivational talks to keep his community alive. He has also spoken at 5 conferences and many Climate-KIC events across Europe. Also Prageeth is originally from New Zealand and thus speaks native English. You may look at some of his YouTube videos to understand the tone of his voice. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBst7gWdPvU From 40 seconds onwards https://youtu.be/cHmlaVmdwnM Video pitch from BioCloud Start-up company Prageeth is a native English speaker that has demonstrated an aptitude for public speaking over a range of audiences. As a side hobby he also acts for the local Zurich Student Theatre group | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3n6zhpuSYxDSENNeFVybVR6bkE/view?usp=sharing | www.ckaa.eu | |||||
178 | 5/17/2015 19:47:01 | Jelassi | Olfa | We Love Kairouan organization | Tunisia | Tunisian | Female | 28 | English, French and Arabic | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to speak to highligh the role of young people in local level facing climate change and working for a healthy and sustainble environment in a country where its population still considering climat and environment issues is not their first interest while it's very connected to the socio-economical situations . young people in local level connected to the global mouvement and awear about common issues and its very important to give them voices to valorze their actions. | We Love Kairouan local organization (with a primary focus on Culture, Environment, citizenship and participation, aims to promote youth participation in local level) organized two successful local action adressing climate change with both mitigation and adaptation strategies : in fact; We love Kairouan organization launched the initiative of the first local youth forum for alternative energy policies : we delivered a youth recommendation ppolicy paper to highligh the potential role of altrnative energies in the mitigation of climate change for policymakers in local level. Also, we Love kairouan organization initiate the "kairouan green city charter -KGCC" in order to implement a real sustainable city evelopment model where we take care about social economical and ecological aspects in the same time for balanced and healthy environment for all , to face climate change and also to prevent it . this charter was first initiatve in whole Tunisia . | Olfa Jelassi, young Tunisian women , 28 years Old, co-founder of several national organizations , co-founder and president of We Love organization . She is meteorologist Ingineer and climate change activist and trainer within national and inernational organizations . she used to coordinate a climate change working group international organization and member of sustainable development and environnment committee at African youth Mouvement; Indded to her scientific background , she is active climate change militante , attended several events such the climate summit in warsaw as civil society and facilitated international seminars for outh about climate and global justice. Above that , she is a public speaker and panalist in issue regarding environment , women, gender , public participation and career management . She delivered speech in congress (political green party congress in Germany) , universities (Germany),during international march for climate justice (Warsaw) and as international guess for youth international conferences. She have the abality and skills to commuincate at different levels (local, national events) , and high level such at the European parliament . | http://podcasts.uni-freiburg.de/studium-generale/vortraege/einzelvortraege/16026875 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0mNCRlRIH7KVlR6RUpSd2xicjQ/view?usp=sharing | http://www.welovekairouan.org/ | |||||
179 | 5/17/2015 20:00:25 | Nyoh | Israel Bionyi | Society for Conservation Biology | Cameroon | Cameroonian | Male | 25 | English and French | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Climate change affects several different countries and people in different ways. After haven reported series of stories about climate change in Africa in different countries, I think it is important the world learn about how climate change affects Africa. I am confident my environmental reporting skills, ability to translate tough scientific materials into understandable but interesting information will be very useful at this conference. | For the past 2 years, I have been an activist for climate change and promoting sustainable practices that can help us reduce both emissions and deforestation. Through the Wink Writes (blog) and the Press Share (News sharing platform) I have been able to mobilize communities and people in Cameroon to adopt a climate friendly Lifestyles. Besides unearthing more than 65 news reports on print, community radios and social media on climate change, I have been able to host campaigns in 7 primary and secondary schools in Cameroon, and two in 2 local communities in the South Western coast of Madagascar about the importance of Water, Coral reefs, reforestation, and energy habits. I have also shared experiences and advised 2 international NGOs in Cameroon;-WWF and ZSL. Through the introduction of solar lamps in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon; I have helped more than 60 people to curb spending on kerosene (1 USD every two days) to the usage of solar powered lambs. I have also launched the Solar power lamb use sensitization Campaigns in 12 community radios in Cameroon. Because of my works in climate change, I was among the 40 Youths who in 2014 powered the UNFCCC’s Adopt a Negotiator Project as a Climate Change Tracker. I am a TUNZA ECO Ambassador to Cameroon, programme sponsored by UNEP.Through this project, I have hosted students/pupils climate awards in 3 schools in Cameroon (1500 p) and skilled ups which permit them to share their learning’s to their community. | Israel is a Media social entrepreneur who recently created a new online enterprise in charge of promoting online sales of newspaper in Cameroon known as “Press share”. It is a non-profitable organization aimed at preparing the Cameroonian media landscape for the digital future. After completing his Masters in Communication at the University of Douala, in 2014, Israel actively became involved into building a social network for his fellow press men. Israel is also known for his environmental blogging and activism and have this year reputedly powered the UNFCCC’s COP 20 Adopt A Negotiator Project as a Climate change Tracker. As a freelance journalist, he founded the blog “The Wink Writes” and has a particular interest in climate change, forest and wildlife conservation in the Central African region. He is a Tunza Ambassador to Cameroon and has equally been contributing in to FAIR PLANET and assists in writing, editing and developing newsletters for the Society for Conservation Biology, Washington DC, USA. Through his experience in different areas of communications he has also worked with local communities in the field. Israel volunteered for World Wide Fund for Nature between March and July 2014. During this period, he published several articles on WWF explore blog. As an assistant | http://www.conbio.org/groups/sections/africa/act | |||||||
180 | 5/17/2015 20:37:34 | Nisida | Ivan | Black Jaguar Foundation | Brazil | Brazilian | Male | 25 | Portuguese, French, English, Spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I wish to speak at the High-Level event on Climate Change because I am a person of beliefs and action. Because I believe in the project I dedicate my life to. I want to inspire others to get involved too and to become aware of the existence of the Araguaia Corridor and, above all, to spread a message of hope, that it is possible to make a positive change in times when the scarring of our mother earth seems devastating. As the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor will be need many years to be realized in full, it already holds potential to become a landmark in the history of conservation worldwide. Because I believe I will continue to work and simultaneously do something good, and by good I mean “able to bring a positive social impact and to help restore the balance between nature and mankind”. I would very much like to share my experiences and inspire other people. Because I believe on mankind’s capacity to change, even if the struggle to do so seems slow and undetectable. Because I believe we can live with less, but live better among ourselves and among nature. Because I truly believe we can create without having to destroy all resources of our planet and, consequently, destroy our ourselves. I do hope these words will express my motivations to speak at the High-Level event on Climate Change, after all, they came from the very inside of me. | My name is Ivan Nisida. I represent the Black Jaguar Foundation (BJF), a start-up global non-profit organization with one ambitious goal: realizing the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor along the Araguaia River, in the heart of Brazil. It will become the longest nature corridor on our planet and one of South-America’s largest reforestation project. This corridor will have a length of 2,600km and up to 40km wide. 80% of all the land within corridor has already been deforested. A huge area of the Cerrado savannah and Amazon rainforest will be restored by replanting millions of indigenous trees. It will also reconnect the remaining ‘islands’ of intact nature: the corridor will be a lifeline to preserve thousands of species. Brazilian law obliges each landowner to preserve 20%-35% of their land for forested areas. Our mission is to unite these landowners and empower them to replant indigenous trees on their newly created private nature reserves. To finance the tasks of our organization, we have created TheLast600 Campaign, which establishes a global community of BJF Friends, empowering people to fight climate change. Inspired by the words ‘We all have the power to change’ from Yann Arthus-Bertrand (UNEP and BJF Ambassador) I dedicate my life to this ambitious project to restore the balance between nature and mankind. For more info: BJF Introduction Trailer http://black-jaguar.org/English-trailer TheLast600 Campaign – UNEP Ambassador Yann Arthus-Bertrand http://thelast600.org/1 | 1) I was born and raised in São Paulo. It was here in that I started my university cycle in International Relations, at PUC-SP. My path followed with my acceptation for the Dual Degree Program with Sciences Po Paris. I graduated in a Master about Environmental Policy at PSIA (Paris School of International Affairs). I had the chance to work at the GoodPlanet Foundation of UNEP Ambassador Yann Arthus-Bertrand, based in Paris. Today, I help coordinating the work of the BJF to establish the office in Sao Paulo. I am responsible for conducting research about the Brazilian context, the Brazilian law and the processes to set up nurseries for indigenous trees. Other tasks involve Networking (fundraising and institutional partnerships). I also work with the communication area (Newsletter, Social Medias, website) 2)As I candidate for the role of opening speaker, I believe my path and my motivations converge with the criteria for such role. Firstly, I am a member of the Black Jaguar Foundation, a civil society entity and also non-profit organization, which exists to implement the Araguaia Biodiversity Corridor. My organization is fully aware of this application. My graduation in International Relations as well as my Master in Environmental Policy qualify me to address the topic of climate change in a consistent level. I have full availability to travel to New York on June 28th. I also have the Swiss nationality, which would help me to enter the USA. In any case, I take responsibility for obtaining the visa to travel to New York. 3) My experiences concerning public speaking include several oral presentations performed during my graduation and especially during my Master in Paris. They include the final Oral Presentation to obtain the Master degree (Sciences Po’s traditional final exam), in which I received a final grade of 16/20. Besides, in 2013, I was the mediator of a Conference at the Sustainable Development Week at Sciences Po Paris. I shared the table with renowned philosophers such as Dominique Bourg. Since 2012, I have been frequenting acting classes, which contributed consistently for public presentations and easiness to speak in public. Finally, and most importantly, my actual job is to present the Black Jaguar Foundation and its project to individuals and companies, which means making use of rhetoric and argumentation. Therefore, I could I state that public speaking is a key part of my job which I carry out with passion and belief. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NAOxFY9lJTb0xhZWFYSXk4Rmc/view?usp=sharing | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NAOxFY9lJTR1JSZVZtT3cxZTg/view?usp=sharing | www.black-jaguar.org | |||||
181 | 5/17/2015 20:59:36 | Silveira | Mariana | PUC Minas | Brazil | Brazilian | Female | 24 | English, Portuguese and French | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | I am a PhD candidate studying Climate Change in a country that has already done a lot when it comes to reducing emissions, but is far from ideal when we take a closer look at the daily habits of our society. Changing the world that we live in involves changing ourselves and the communities closer to us. And that's exactly what I am trying to do, step by step, action by action. I wouldn't be able to pursuit a PhD on climate change if I wasn't capable of empowering myself and taking the chance to apply for this speaking role and maybe inspire the Youth in Brazil and all over the world. | Taking my bike to go to work was my first step towards a more sustainable lifestyle - at first it may seem so simple, but it turned out to be one of the most amazing things that I've done in my life. I inspired my colleagues, my friends, my boss and even my parents. Now we have a special scheme at work dedicated to the ones that use bikes. I am healthier, faster, more conscious and Changing the world begins with simple acts and ends with huge results. | I am a PhD student in International Relations and it's a personal goal of mine to be inspired and to be able to inspire people, that why I am going to be a professor. My role at PUC Minas is of a PhD researcher and a tutor for the students, so I meet the criteria because I am aware of the impacts of small actions when it comes to sustainability and the reduction of possible damage to the environment we share with the rest of the world. Being a student for so long allowed me having a good sense of public speaking - to be a tutor and to be a leader demands this ability and I am fully aware of the responsibility that is to speak for a crowd with the goal of inspiring. | http://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do?id=K4440205D9&idiomaExibicao=2 | www.pucminas.br | ||||||
182 | 5/17/2015 21:13:39 | Ipangelwa | Elizabeth | University Of Namibia | Windhoek, Namibia | Namibian | female | 19 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | It has always been my dream to speak in front a large group of people to express myself on how i feel about Climate Change and encourage people around the world and educate them. Furthermore, I would like network or rather interact with people around the world that are ambitious as i am, so we can talk about Climate change and motivate one another. This will be great exposure for me, it can open doors for me and change my life forever. I will also be able to see New York, i have never traveled abroad in my entire life | I am a former Ambassador of the Environmental Club at Hochland high School 2014. I have attended Cop 11 which took part in 2014 and I have been part of the environmental club for 4 years. We have decided to start up a garden on a climate adaptation project we were working on and planted various vegetables to see on how they adapt to the harsh climate of Namibia. I believe in Sustainable Development and taking care of the environment, in this club i had learned a lot, keeping our environment clean and recycling. We have gone to so many places and we had educated learners in the school to keep our environment clean. Before I joined the environment club, I did not care about the environment, I would litter and not know the effects, I would not care, when people pollute the land,air. I knew nothing about biodiversity,climate change and global warming. When I joined the environment club, I fall in-love with nature, everything started being my concern, I started caring about the way i use electricity, I would choose to use solar panel. I also started worrying about the way in which people pollute the air by driving cars, I started taking the bus, which means it reduces the amount of air pollution, imagine if everyone had their own cars? . Even right know when im using my laptop im thinking if electricity. I believe we should take good care of planet earth, as we would be nothing without it, we should take the environment serious. Empower one another and make a difference. | My Name is Elizabeth Ipangelwa, 19 years of age. A first year student at the University Of Namibia studying law. I am a former Ambassador of My former School Hochland High. Here we just met up once a week to discuss about the Environment. We would attend workshops and camps just to know about the environment. I live in Namibia, I love learning and meeting new people I was a Model United Nations delegate whereby i had attended a workshop on internet training | ||||||||
183 | 5/17/2015 21:31:10 | Paderes | Jekk Mickale | International Forestry Students' Association | Philippines | Filipino | Male | 23 | Filipino and English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | Just to quote the Bible verse 1 Tim. 4:12. It is said there that “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.” I was just reminded by this verse that I will step on that stage with boldness and confidence to tell the world how crucial the work undertaken with and by youth is in influencing governments, private sectors, NGOs and other major groups to come to an agreement on a new climate change regime in the future. We need to develop a common understanding about climate change. I need to step up in the international arena because the scorching issue that we are focusing today is a challenge we are going to face tomorrow. The collective ideas and experiences that I have from the Filipino youth regarding the reality happening in the Philippines (such as the strongest typhoon ever hit the surface of the earth-Typhoon Haiyan), the work done by the government and other sectors, the problems and challenges and strategies that can be taken by youth) are all kept and need to be voiced out if I had the chance to. I assure that this can move the world…can change the rotation of the planet wherein: ...an idea to be a program …a suggestion to be a policy …a plan to be a tangible output ...a dream to be a reality I wanted the youth to be seen under a limelight. I wanted to take this as one collective voice and shout it to all the citizens of Earth. Yes, we are small BUT OUR VOICE IS GIGANTIC. | As an Educational and Research Committee Head of the UPLB Forestry Society, I started to wobble the mindset of the students by organizing a publication in our campus which promotes eco-justice, social and environmental issues. I was able to facilitate a green protest wherein our organization was sharpened by the blistering environmental challenges like climate change, loss of biodiversity, disasters and many more to create solutions. Being the Liaison Officer to the Informal Forum of International Student Organizations of the International Forestry Students’ Association, I have acquainted myself with collective experiences that allowed me to step up in the international arena like the IFISO Meeting that would propel the youth’s insights to new height of information and awareness on climate issues. As a member of Southeast Asian Youth Environment Network (SEAYEN), we write project proposals relating to environment for our target sponsors to establish workshops especially for the youth in ASEAN countries. Because of our facilitated trainings, we developed other youth leaders and added as voice for the environment and their community. Ugnayan ng Pahinungod in our university has gained my passion in public service and sharing my knowledge and skills through environmental education. I used to teach students on ways how to share information to other youth from different parts of the country that lacks good quality education. I used to teach voluntarily regarding the climate change, disaster response and volunteerism, Philippine environmental crisis and many more. | I was appointed by the International Forestry Students' Association (IFSA) Council as the Liaison Officer to the Informal Forum of International Student Organization (IFISO). My responsibility is to give way and link the information, updates, news, and opportunities between IFSA and IFISO. This role is so crucial which I can use as the voice of the youth to step on the international arena focusing on sustainable development of the environment and natural resources and youth empowerment. I can address the relevant topics because I came from a country where in impacts of climate change is very evident. Philippines is considered as one of the most vulnerable developing countries to climate change. An average of twenty typhoons, periodic inundation to droughts and food scarcity is a part of the reality that Filipinos experiencing nowadays. Most affected are those living near the bodies of water. One big notable event would be the super typhoon Haiyan, said to be the strongest typhoon tropical cyclones ever recorded, which hit the eastern part of Visayas last November 2013. This disaster brought a lesson on the resiliency of vulnerable areas through local stakeholder engagement, capacity-building exercises, public-private cooperation and policy-making that pave the way for the implementation of the country’s National Climate Change Action Plan. As a forester, I can see clearly how humans can influence the climate change. Various human interventions can be observed like charcoal making, slash-and-burn, illegal logging, burning of plastics and rubber, and many more. I wanted to share the output to the different local and international youth-led organizations, government agencies and even private sectors which can be the foundation of combating the scorching issue of this generation. | My passion is public speaking. I wanted, not just to communicate with the audience, but to connect with them. When you say connection, there should be a relationship within the people you are communicating to achieving such point relating to one issue and goal which is the environmental matter by “moving their chairs”. What do I mean? I am a person who is good at increasing the interest, persuading, encouraging and giving knowledge with fun with the discussion. I became one of the youth speakers in the Earth Day Jam Concert this year in our country. I used to join oration competition and won 2nd place in an environmental impromptu speaking contest. I used to be the host of different environmental events in our organization. I am used to teach college students to encourage and equipped them in the area of teaching elementary students about literacy and environmental issues. | http://www.ifsa.net/ | ||||||
184 | 5/17/2015 21:44:53 | Safraoui | Rahma | tunis American Corner | Tunisia | Tunisian | Female | 17 | French, English, Arabic | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As a person who has dedicated her life to debate, international relations and public policy, getting to speak in front of the general assembly of the United Nations would be a dream come true. especially since I am planning on pursuing a career working the UN. My time in the U.S as an exchange student has given me a working model of better Tunisia, not only that but a sense of empowerment to initiate change. Since I started debating , I started feeling that changing what was around wasn't all that hard. I started feeling that I too could be changing history and not just be passively shaped by it.What seemed as intractable problems of the world had became opportunities for me to change things. Tunisian youth has an immense potential that our government is ignoring. It is really hard to be heard in country where no one values the point of view of young lady. and having this opportunity will finally give me the opportunity to show the great potential youth in developing countries has . And maybe take me a step further into my climate change action back home. | SInce 2012, when most governmental institutions went on strikes led by the wave of uprisings in Tunisia, the country shifted from being a beautiful place to a giant dumpster. So I started working with a group of friends on improving the situation. we started locally by working on Sundays on picking up trash from everywhere around Tunis. Then I started giving speeches around the country , at high schools , conferences , associations etc. Trying to make people more aware of the consequences of their acts. And trying to change the little habits that made their way into our education. Then I came to the United States as an exchange student this year, and I realized how far behind we still are when comes to taking action against climate change. I saw action everywhere, in all the little details that U.S citizens usually take for granted whether it comes to recycle bins that are found everywhere, or to all the efforts provided to use as little energy as possible . but I didn't only see it in the hard structures, but most importantly in it's invisible institutions , I saw it in an entire educational system that worked to make those little gestures part of everyone's daily habits. So I understood, that institutional dysfunction, oppression , dictatorship killed off that vibrant productivity and so I felt here the value of civic society's vivacity and started working with the same group of friends on talking to elementary schools to organize workshops on climate change. To hopefully have a new generation of people who do care. | I received a full funded scholarship from the United States department of state to spend a whole academic year in the U.S as an exchange student. I was one of the participants in the civic education workshop, during which we got to debate U.S. congressmen about various issues. I confounded PlanBe Tunisia and helped organize two editions of this conference. I participated in various debate tournaments during my exchange year in America and placed in every single one of them. I was part of the Tunis American Corner debate team. I was the delegation of Korea Republic in the security council at the Tunisian international MUN in 2014 and the delegation of the U.S.A in the human rights council in 2014. I participated in debates with the Young Arab Voices. I am currently working on founding a Girls Up Club in Tunisia to provide equal opportunities for both genders . I worked on several community service projects in the less developed parts of the country. | http://americancornertunis.blogspot.com/ | |||||||
185 | 5/17/2015 22:19:30 | Chinnah | Maxwell | Terraoak | USA | Nigerian | M | 22 | English, Hausa, and Igbo | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | The inspiration for this project revolves around Mr. Chinnah’s childhood experience of using firewood. His grandma died from a host of respiratory issues as a result of her burning firewood to prepare daily meals. Out of 1 billion firewood users in the world today, each year 4.3 million of them die from in-house pollution generated from the burning of firewood, just like my grandma. So for him: this problem is real and very personal. Therefore, the exquisite privilege of participating in this speaking opportunity at the UN will allow for Mr. Chinnah to share his unique story, and how his experiences motivated him to be the co-founder of Terraoak—in the hopes of obtaining partners and inspiring others. This opportunity will also allow Mr. Chinnah to meet individuals who can provide useful mentorship. This would be an invaluable experience as he would be able to garner advice from veteran entrepreneurs and renewable energy experts that could be useful in the modifying their prototype. | As a socially-responsible leader, Mr. Chinnah is the CEO & co-founder of Terraoak. His innovative team is developing a solar-powered, electric cooker: the Genesis Cooker. It is differentiated from other through its ability to cook food well into the night hours by storing solar energy to achieve this goal.The initial deployment of the technology will be rural Ghana. However, this clean tech solution is designed to be universally applicable. This product is not only a useful, economically valuable good, but also addresses social ills like indoor health concerns and ecological impacts from fuel burning, etc. Terraoak is organized as a revenue-generating social business and leverages key alliance partners like the Waverly Rotary Club and Youth Empowerment Synergy – Ghana. The venture has received start-up funding from The Resolution Project and the Davis Projects for Peace award. The team noted the serious risks posed by current cooking systems in rural Africa (and elsewhere) that rely on combustible fuels that are expensive and detrimental to the environment and public health. While early solar cookers do indeed exist, the team evaluated existing options and understood that these are limited in certain important ways, such as functioning only during the day and external deployment. The team went through an oft-challenging iterative process of design, culminating in the Genesis Cooker 1.0, current in prototype form preparing for a limited Beta deployment. | Maxwell is a talented individual who has shown several times his unrelenting desire to bring his vision to fruition. He pitched to the Resolution Project on three separate occasions, all very far from his home in Iowa. He left twice with advice but without fellowships but returned with renewed focus and showed his determination by duly implementing his feedback. Pitching three times is certainly unprecedented and his success story left a resounding memory at Resolution. Terraoak is the epitome of consistent feedback implementation which is perfectly aligned with the intent of the Resolution Project. By the third pitch, he had a working prototype which was miles removed from his status at the first pitch, showing that he was willing to go far beyond paper and powerpoint exercises to show his desire. Maxwell Chinnah has taken to heart the gap that lies between those in the third world countries and their first world counterparts in terms of education and development. He has backed up his sentiment through his work as campus representative for the Clinton Global Initiative and the partnerships he is pursuing and has fostered with the Resolution Project, the Rotary Club in Kumasi East, the World Bank, and the Gates Foundation, to mention a few. His quality as a candidate is dictated by his vision and his motivations, all of which are sound. His vision addresses several issues from family health (pollutants from burning firewood that effect women and children) to youth training to the environment (a solution to overreliance on wooden bio-mass). His motivation stems an innate desire to use their talents and opportunities to give back. It is evident through their ambition (repeated pitches to Resolution) and his existing progress (working prototype and multi-year action plan) that he would make an excellent speaker. Maxwell more than meets the qualifications to be a speaker and based on his pitches to Resolution he has a tremendous understanding of this audience and makes for an influential and effective public speaker. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWqBvOAGxZo&list=PLFfioQjCMp9dS52QfE-iN1PrWGBHsTC9y&index=4 | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2b3oCVNSfnEUEZ5b183MFdrVlk/view?usp=sharing | Nigeria | |||||
186 | 5/17/2015 22:58:58 | Jha | Ajay Kumar | Centre for Community Economics and Development Consultants Society (CECOEDECON) | India | Indian | Mal | 42 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | To emphasize the leadership of women farmers in climate change adaptation, their vulnerabilities, challenges and best practices. | The organization has engaged with the communities and people on natural resources management water and seed management with women farmers with the result of enhancing women leadership in climate change adaptation. | A development policy analyst, Ajay has engaged extensively with issues of sustainable development, climate change, agriculture and food sovereignty, trade and trade in agriculture, human rights and human rights based approach to development. He has sound understanding of the scientific, political and social aspects of the policies and institutions and has interacted closely with many UN institutions including UNCSD, UNEP, UNFCCC, UNHRC and also the WTO and the UNCTAD. His interest areas are energy, sustainable agriculture, climate change, peoples and social movement, development and rights, equity and non-discrimination, democracy, accountability and governance. | Last CV will do, adding that he has experience of speaking at Post 2015 development agenda processes. | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwQDhP1_JVrheVlzRUtFLVNidk0/view?usp=sharing | www.cecoedecon.org.in | |||||
187 | 5/17/2015 23:28:42 | Osman | Marian Hussein | AYICC (African Youth Initiative on Climate Change) | Somalia | Somali, Canadian | Female | 22 | English, Somali | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | As I elaborate on in my bio, my country faces some unique challenges when it comes to the environment. Somalia has existed without a fully-functioning government for over two decades. In addition to widespread civil turmoil during this period, there has been no protection of its coastline or natural resources. Also, agriculture—a central way of life for many Somalis, including my family—is threatened by climate change; drought destroys crops and livestock, forcing many to leave home and flee for refugee camps. Through my work with my federal parliament, as well as through engagement with the UNFCCC, I’ve learned that concerns regarding environmental degradation and development are one and the same here: a country ravaged by climate disaster will be hard-pressed to find the focus and resources to lead the way towards stability and peace. I feel compelled to speak at this event not just for future generations, but also for my own country today as these concerns are pressing but not widely recognized—even within my environmental circles. If I could bring attention to Somalia that is centered on climate change rather than piracy or terrorism, I feel I could do a lot of good for my country. | I’ve been the sole representative of Somalia within both YOUNGO and the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC) for the past five years. Outside of international policy, I’ve also collaborated with the federal parliament of Somalia on domestic policy on the environment. My lobbying helped pave the way for new policies that were implemented recently on coastline protection; it is now formally illegal for overfishing or the dumping of hazardous wastes to occur off the coast of Somalia (both of which are the direct cause of ‘piracy’ here). In addition, I co-founded an NGO with a Somali parliamentarian that has successfully implemented curriculum on climate change in Somali schools. This was just the beginning of getting Somali youth educated and engaged concerning climate change, however; while in Warsaw at COP19, I delivered an intervention that was widely shared in the Somali community. Since, Somali interest in addressing climate change has grown and the beginnings of a Somali Youth Climate Network are taking shape. | My family fled Somalia in the 1990s, moving to Canada under its Refugee and Humanitarian program. In the past decade, however, my family has returned and I’ve become invested in building my country up from the rubble (and addressing the challenges climate change poses to Somalia’s recovery). I feel it pertinent to mention, as a former refugee, I am a dual Somali-Canadian citizen and can obtain entry to the USA relatively easily. Though relatively young in comparison to many of my co-delegates, I’ve had extensive experience participating in and following the United Nations climate negotiations as an African youth climate ambassador. I’ve been the sole representative from Somalia at COP17, CP18, Rio+20, and COP19. I also anticipate attending COP21 in Paris this upcoming fall. Needless to say, the environment is something I am very personally invested in. This interest stems heavily from my life in Somalia—my family lives in Afgooye, one of many agricultural villages that make up south-west Somalia. First-hand experience has taught me how threatening climate change has been and continues to be for many communities of people in Somalia, and more widely around the world. My long-term engagement with the UNFCCC has made me keenly aware of how much of a landmark COP21 in Paris will be; I want to take every opportunity to ensure the outcome of the post-2015 agreements are as ambitious as humanly possible. I have occupied many leadership positions on the municipal, federal, and international level and as such am very comfortable with public speaking (refer to CV for details). Please see the video link in the next question—I delivered an intervention to plenary at COP19 that demonstrates my passion for the environment and level of comfort addressing a large room of people. | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt6KRFrPtpM | https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeBqjcBGC9YSFVNa1pnQ05XRDg/view?usp=sharing | ||||||
188 | 5/18/2015 0:00:00 | Ordóñez Moscoso | María Bernarda | Asociación AEQUITAS | Ecuador | Ecuador | Femenino | 24 | Inglés, Francés. | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 1 (no travel funding) | Me gustaría participar en este evento, pues considero que desde mi experiencia de vivir en uno de los países mega diversos del mundo me ha permitido comprender que las necesidades humanas son infinitas pero no así nuestros recursos y es por ello que debemos trabajar en coordinación con el Estado, el sector privado (Empresas) y la sociedad civil, en primer lugar para generar una conciencia colectiva de cuidado y prevención y luego para desarrollar marcos normativos que les permita a las empresas ejercer sus actividades económicas con el menor impacto posible a la naturaleza, y su afectación sea mínima. GOOGLE TRANSLATE I would like to participate in this event, because I think that from my experience of living in one of the mega diverse countries in the world has allowed me to understand that human needs are endless but not our resources and that is why we must work in coordination with the State, private sector (business) and civil society, firstly to generate a collective awareness of prevention and care and then to develop policy frameworks that allow businesses to exercise their economic activities with the least possible impact on nature, and its effect is minimal. | En la Asociación AEQUITAS, es un colectivo de jóvenes universitarios de Cuenca Ecuador, trabajamos principalmente por la equidad de género y el respeto de los derechos humanos y promovemos un medio ambiente sano, en ese marco hemos organizado distintas campañas de sensibilización y capacitación a jóvenes, entro los cuales se destacan paseos en bicicetas, cineforos, conversatorios, campañas de reciclajes. Entre ellos destacamos una Cicleada para erradicar la violencia de género (22 de nov de 2012, una de las primeras iniciativas en Cuenca y un seminario para comprender los alcances de la explotación del petroleo en la amazonia ecuatoriana (Yasuní ITT) GOOGLE TRANSLATE In AEQUITAS Association is a group of university students in Cuenca Ecuador, working primarily gender equity and respect for human rights and promote a healthy environment, in this context we have organized various awareness campaigns and training to young people, which entered stand bicicetas rides, film forums, talks, recycling campaigns. These include one Cicleada to eradicate gender-based violence (November 22, 2012, one of the first initiatives in Cuenca and a seminar to understand the scope of oil exploitation in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Yasuni ITT) | La candidata Bernarda Ordóñez, es una persona apasionada por los derechos humanos. Es uno de los miembros fundadores de la Asociación, demostrando eficiencia y compromiso pues ha contactado a redes que permiten a la Asociación realizar sus actividades de capacitación. Actualmente trabaja en la Organización de Estados Americanos en Washington, ha sido acreedora a numerosas becas y fue Representante Estudiantil en la Universidad por lo cuál tiene bastante experiencia y comodidad para hablar en público.Una de las características a destacar es la perseverancia y la capacidad para concretar proyectos. GOOGLE TRANSLATE Bernarda candidate Ordonez, is passionate about human rights. It is one of the founding members of the Association, demonstrating efficiency and commitment as it has contacted networks that enable the Association carry out their training. He currently works at the Organization of American States in Washington, has been the recipient of numerous scholarships and was student representative on the University so it has enough experience and comfort speaking público.Una features highlight is the perseverance and the ability to implement projects. | https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B5W_2zuui-Y8fkRTT2dWaU55TTg5Q1ZRVUlnOTdSTTJlVkZJQ3RRbjJFQjB6TmNxcm9TR2c&usp=sharing | FB: aequitas aequitas | ||||||
189 | 5/18/2015 0:56:42 | Ingaruca | Melissa | Generation +1 - Libélula Climate Change Management and Communications | Perú | peruvian | female | 24 | english, spanish | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I am a storyteller and I trust inspiring narratives can help build momentum to raise ambitious contributions. I have a plan to deliver a message to high-level participants. I don’t think they need facts on climate science, they have them. But the recent 400ppm record still is a clear reminder of urgency. I´ve heard speakers addressing people´s emotions to gain some empathy, but emotions are ephemeral and I want to transcend emotions. So I thought I could share my vision of the role they have. Visions are strong, after all the world we have is the result of past visionaries. So I´d invite member states representatives and other important stakeholders to be ambassadors of the sustainable future scenario we want, ambassadors of climate justice. I´d tell them they´re not representing a country or a sector, they´re representing the world, and thus they should find ways of generating synergy rather than tension among the levels or spheres where they act. I´d tell them they´re not representing the ones holding power but the most vulnerable people whose present and future are at stake because of climate change undeniable impacts. I´d tell them they´re not representing this generation interest, they´re acting also on behalf of next generations. Whoever they´re representing, they also represent the ability of our specie to look beyond personal interests and lifetime and work for the sake of our sustainability. Democracy is what we have and leadership is all we need. So I´d invite them to be ambassadors of the democracy we need to tackle climate change. | We are 1.8 billion youth living in this planet and we could represent the next generation of innovators and sustainable global citizens if we are given the support to become so. Generation +1 exits to address this challenge by unleashing youth potential that accelerates transition to low-carbon development and climate resilient societies. We deal with the multiple dimensions of youth development and the spheres and levels where youth influence. Today, we prioritise 3 lines of work: education for sustainable development (Talent +1), participation in economies through youth sustainable entrepreneurship (Lab +1), and youth civic participation (Ambassadors +1). In the context of the UN climate negotiations held in Peru, we launched the 6-month Program for Leadership and Entrepreneurship for Climate Change “Talent +1”, that engaged 16 young peruvian leaders and reached over 2000 people. As a result the 16 young leaders were able to participate in summits and dialogues in the context of COP20 and as observers in the negotiations. They came up with 15 projects (such as sustainable construction, agroforestry, sustainable tourism, urban agriculture, an environmental pastoral in the catholic community, among others). Today, we´re designing an ecosystem accelerator for sustainable entrepreneurships (Lab +1) and we´ll launch “Ambassadors +1” with a regional (Latin America and Caribe) platform propelling youth civic participation in the process of the INDC, and a regional research to identify new appropriate indicators of youth civic participation on the climate change governance. | I´ve graduated as a social communicator with an specialization on audiovisual communications in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. I´m a youth representative, sustainability explorer and youth sustainability-related communities’manager. Since 2009, I have been committed with empowering youth to become responsible global citizens and agents of transformation for sustainable development at the national and international level. Youth representative: I’m a founding member, former communications coordinator and former general coordinator of MUNAY, a youth organization for sustainable development. I’m member of World Student Environmental Network (WSEN) Executive Board and former delegate of the WSEN 6th Global Summit. The WSEN is worldwide supporter of student initiatives for the incorporation of sustainability into higher education. I am a former Peruvian delegate of the IV Youth Forum of the Americas (in the context of the VII OAS Summit) and member of the Young Americas Network. Youth Sustainability-related community manager: Since May 2014 I am part of the organizing team of Generation +1. I share the overall coordination of the project, but I focus on 3 strategic areas: research management, education for sustainable development and communications and branding. I have contributed shaping the community DNA: our vision, mission, values and strategic programs through the holistic understanding of youth development. I represent Generation +1 with key public and private stakeholders and in public presentations of the project. Last year, during the program of education about climate change for sustainable development “Talent +1”, I led the design of a learning environment that promoted development of competences for sustainable development (system thinking, prospective thinking, interdisciplinary work, transcultural cooperation among others) and systemic understanding of climate change science and political framework by articulating different disciplines topics in courses content. This year, I´m co-designing “Ambassador +1” a platform to propel youth participation in the process of the INDC and a research study to identify indicators for improving youth civic participation and contribute to a sustainable development governance. That´s how I tackle climate action, by understanding, connecting and enganging, co-creating, empowering and scaling up innovations in youth development for sustainable development. My communication skills have helped me in drawing people´s attention and in engaging them in a deep reflexion on current challenges. | Statement link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dziZGGYeCPMkF5OGVMUW1FSGs/view?usp=sharing -Interview on National TV channel: TV Peru, in the program “Points of View COP” (in the context of COP20. December 2014. Lima, Peru. Topic: Education for sustainable development. Watch: http://bit.ly/1CQU9jd -Talk about Generation +1 in the Mega Pecha Kucha Verde, pre COP, a civil society event that gathered together over 3000 people. December 2014. Lima, Peru. Watch minute 0:58 http://bit.ly/1F0pv6T -Creative Talks "Dreams become verbs", my personal experience on how I linked my passion for communication and sustainable development. Creative Mornings Lima. Lima, Perú. December 2013. Watch: http://creativemornings.com/talks/invasion-creativa-el-publico-toma-el-escenario/6 -Video appearance in the workshop Youth Agenda for Climate Change in Perú. http://bit.ly/1mECKVw | Link to CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3dziZGGYeCPSnZ6bm9KaHdJM3c/view?usp=sharing | http://www.generacionmasuno.pe/ | |||||
190 | 5/18/2015 2:05:57 | Amjad | Nimra | Pakistan Sustainability Network | Canada | Pakistan | female | 28 | English, Urdu/Hindi | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I want to bring home the point that youth can take climate action within a democratic system by connecting with environmental policy-makers, engaging with and understanding legal processes and mobilising fellow citizens. Youth can make a huge impact by changing policy and holding governments accountable. Democracy only works if we show up and the climate movement needs us to show up more than ever. I want to inspire youth across the world to raise their voice for climate-friendly development in their cities and towns : We cannot afford to let our governments to continue to invest in carbon-intensive and unsustainable development - these are decisions our generation will live with. I want to inspire every young person to become a change agent. | In 2011 Nimra was able to bring together youth, policy-makers, urban planners and work with other citizen groups to lobby the Lahore government to stop the cutting of over 4000 trees (that are over 200 years old and are part of the largest green belt in the city) to create a highway that would only serve car owners that make up only 8 percent of the city population. Youth spoke at Lahore High Court and were able to use the democratic and legal process to help put in place the Lahore Heritage Canal Act 2012. Since then, Pakistan Sustainability Network has been successfully able to lobby the government for sustainable development, a most recent victory being the case of stopping the development of the signal-free corridor and influencing the case at the Supreme Court of Pakistan. | Nimra is the founder of Pakistan Sustainability Network and is a citizen of Pakistan. She has organised several climate events and created an eco-literacy program to educate youth about the interconnectedness of various issues to climate change (women's rights, conflict, etc). Nimra has researched the impact of climate change on women rural Pakistan and the issues of sustainability around Canada's oil sands and energy industry, consulting for and working for energy think tanks, non-profits and organisations like IUCN, WWF and the World Bank. This makes her a global climate change maker - combining sound theoretical knowledge with efforts on the ground to mobilise people around effective policy. She recently organised and spoke at the largest climate rally in Calgary (the commercial heart of the oil industry in Canada) and will be representing Canadian and Pakistani youth at COP21. Nimra has over five years of public speaking experience on tv, radio, conferences on climate and environmental issues. | Video : https://docs.google.com/a/mtroyal.ca/file/d/0BxdCWazyiJoWS21pUWpXbWlhWFU/edit?usp=docslist_api | https://docs.google.com/a/mtroyal.ca/file/d/0BxdCWazyiJoWX1Y5V05MNlJucUlJMHhJX1RHYkY4RnZmSlNz/edit?usp=docslist_api | ||||||
191 | 5/18/2015 3:49:28 | Datt | Madhav | Green the Gene | India | India | Male | 18 | English, Hindi,, French | No, I do not need travel funding to participate | Respondent to Panel 2 (no travel funding) | Young people are one of the largest stakeholders of not just civil society but our future. We today understand the situation our world is in and how it affects all of us. Being a part of the generation most affected by the effects of climate change, I will be able to bring in a unique perspective as a youth activist from a developing country, where environmental concerns tend to take a back seat. I will be able to use my experience of working with children and youth to organize grassroots climate action without an abundance of resources, since a very young age. I want to use this platform and opportunity to ask and urge member states and other representatives to work towards concrete action by talking about my climate actions and small scale initiatives, local to specific regions and their impact on the environment as well as in involving other young people in this movement for action. I would like to share the success I have had in our initiatives, as my organization, Green the Gene grew to involve more people across borders for this common cause. | Though Madhav has initiated and led a lot of climate actions and initiatives through Green the Gene globally - the Aqua Revival is a very simple, replicable yet innovative project that Madhav implemented in Faridabad, India. Madhav brought together students, administration and local government to implement this solution which recycles swimming pool water and makes it fit for reuse. Earlier, an amount of water was sent down the drain from these pools and ground water drawn everyday. Direct and tangible impacts of this initiative are that a total of 850,000 liters of water is recycled annually from the swimming pool at Eicher School, Faridabad itself; reduced need to spend electricity to draw more groundwater, and also resonates with the municipal government as a practical solution which they can implement too. This climate action has received a project Commendation from the Volvo Adventure Program. His other climate actions include Life is Green Campaign which led to the pledging to plant a total of nearly 1.5 million trees in The Gambia. Out of these a very large number have already been planted (no confirmed idea about the number yet). Wake up Call India, led to mass mobilization and involvement of youth from the National Capital Region (NCR) of India, with nearly 8000 of them joining in to convince the Delhi Government to step in and take solid action about this issue. Eco-School campaign in South Korea involves a total of 8 universities and all their students which compete fiercely to become the greenest campus. | The nominee, Madhav Datt, back in 2004 (at the age of 8), when he was a third grade student at Eicher School, Faridabad started a small environmental initiative called Green the Gene. In third grade, he was taught about environmental issues and their impacts on us-humans. On learning about those, he decided that they must do something about it. He convinced a few friends to join him in starting a small environmental initiative. Over the past 10 years, this initiative grew, and today is an international, completely youth run, non-profit, environmental organization with active projects in 45 countries, with over 4800 youth volunteers, under the age of 24, from different schools and universities across the world. Through this organization, independent projects, and his role as the UNEP TUNZA EcoGeneration Youth Ambassador for the Asia-Pacific Region; he has made and has involved a large number of youth in making significant contributions towards the goal of ensuring environmental sustainability and combating climate change. Madhav Datt is currently 18 years old, a freshman at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, majoring in Computer Science. Despite the extremely academically rigorous curriculum, he continues to work dedicatedly for the environment via Green the Gene, through which he has engaged over 4800 young people to join as volunteers, and sensitized and involved at least another 18,000 through presentations and grassroots projects. Madhav has been invited to various international environmental and youth summits as a speaker, panelist etc. and is extremely at ease speaking in public. He has led on-ground climate action and campaigns, and has been involved in lobbying for policy change and initiatives at the local government level for over 10 years now. He is one of the 16 extraordinary young people from across Commonwealth nations selected for the prestigious 2015 Commonwealth Youth Awards for Excellence in Development Work. He was also awarded the title “Youth Environmentalist of the Year” by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India. | Madhav has spoken at a lot of events, conducted workshops and has interacted with over 50,000 young people, motivating them to join the global movement for positive environmental action. He has spoken on national TV, radio etc. and has also been invited to speak at various international environmental and youth summits. He has also spoken at a TEDx event. A link to one of his interviews (with UN TV at Nairobi, Kenya) is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZySS576xgjI | A link to Madhav's CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8fFzZkN9hUSZWFkSzhKOFc3OWs/view?usp=sharing More about Madhav and the work he is doing can be found on in.linkedin.com/in/madhavdatt/ and about.me/madhav_datt | http://www.greenthegene.org | |||||
192 | 5/18/2015 9:52:47 | Sesega | Jerome | The Voice Inc | PNG | Papua New Guinean | Male | 20 | English | Yes, I need travel funding to participate | Opening ceremony (must be young and from a developing country - travel funding provided) | I feel that as a young man from a developing country. I have the raw and emotionally charged voice that the UN is looking for - the fact that my people are the world's first climate change refugees really is the reason I want to speak . I see the sea rise everyday in my people's eyes, they may not have the ability to voice their heartache so I've taken that responsibility and I want to open the world's eyes with my humble story | I am a Papua New Guinean and My people are the the World's First Climate Change Refugees. The fact is our islands are sinking at an unprecedented rate. This issue of climate change affects my peoples' livelihood- our crops don't grow because of the saltwater in the soil, my young nieces and nephews don't go to school some days because when its high tide, the classrooms are submerged .My people of the Carteret Islands have to leave the land that our forefathers thousands of years ago fought for because it is no longer habitable . I along with a group of my friends have started the Carteret Campaign which promotes the plight of these islanders because even in PNG many people don't know about them. The campaign is starting small with a book drive for the schools held at the national university but has plans to expand into acquiring basic essentials like sleeping materials and eating utensilss.I believe in the power of conversation and that is the main tool the campaign uses because we arent funded. | Jerome Sesega is from PNG and was born on the 26/06/94 and is now a third year law student at the University of PNG. He is also a head 'Nation builder'with the voice inc a youth empowerment organization. Jerome has spoken nationally and internationally most recently at University of Melbourne where he gave a keynote speech for the Oak tree National Conference which was a conference run by oak tree - Australia's largest youth led organization. Jerome's speech can be obtained from the oaktree website .Jerome has a current Australian Visa and Passport and will be available for the mentioned dates . | www.thevoicepng.org |