By Liam O'Doherty | Director of Digital Youth Engagement
In the lead up to the COP21 Negotiations in Paris in December 2015, TakingITGlobal partnered with a range of environmental youth organizations to support collective action and a stronger lobbying effort around the transition to post carbon societies. Providing accreditation and networking support to five leading youth initiatives, TIG liaised through YOUNGO, the official youth constituency under the UNFCCC and through the Secretariat’s Joint Framework on Children Youth and Climate.
We also facilitated #Decarbonize, a global educational mobilization, which leveraged over 25,000 hours of student collaboration and the passion of over 10,000 youth. Twelve schools from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, the Philippines, India, Sweden, Peru, South Africa and the United States were engaged in a focused conversation which began examining local contexts and then expanded outwards towards increasingly large segments of our world. Collaborating schools were partnered to connect in digital dialogue focused on building global connection and the creation of a globally oriented action plan to advance the transition to a clean energy world.
The result is the #Decarbonize White paper, a youth statement, which calls for locally driven global change along the themes of energy, water and oceans, resilience and adaptation, agriculture, forests and land use, international aid, education and action.
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