Tag: climate action

Time is running out, youth organize in Nairobi

COA Admin November 14, 2006 0 Comments
by Juan  With only 4 days for the closing of the UNFCCC negotiations, the North America youth delegation has doubled efforts to press for outcomes from this meeting that will safeguard help us combat climate change. Over the next 24 hrs we will be organizing a press conference, a meeting with the minister of environment of the United Kingdom, while meetings with the European Union, United...

North American youth delegation arrives in Nairobi

COA Admin November 4, 2006 0 Comments
Twenty-eight youth from North America have traveled to Nairobi, Kenya for the 12th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP12). The youth delegation has brought together leaders from across North America, and seeks to share the perspectives gained last year in Montreal with African youth present at COP12. Over the next two weeks these twenty-eight climate warriors...

Youth Delegation prepares for United Nations Climate Conference in Nairobi, Kenya

COA Admin October 22, 2006 0 Comments
-by Juan Soriano Seventy-five youth from around the world are preparing to make the case for a carbon-neutral future at the upcoming meeting United Nations Climate Change Conference. The 12th session of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP12) and the 2nd meeting of the Kyoto Protocol (MOP2) will convene from November 6th, to November 17th (at UNEP headquarters) in...

Carbon Offsets with NativeEnergy

COA Admin October 15, 2006 0 Comments
-by Matthew In 19 days I will be in Boston’s Logan International Airport ready for 14 hours and 40 minutes of sitting in a Boeing 747. I will fly 7,513 miles going 895km/h over the Atlantic Ocean towards a part of the world I have never been to, to attend a very important international conference on climate change and hopefully work towards ultimately halting the threat of global warming. It...