The second youth event that I attended was a YOUNGO meeting on Tuesday in the early morning (YOUNGO is the official youth constituency at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). The meeting started off with the childhood game of Rock, Paper, Scissor. Simple, right? Rock beats scissors, scissors beats paper, and paper beats rock. Well that wasn’t the hard part, everyone knew those rules but there was difficulty getting to that, the who wins part. In certain areas of the world, I learned that they say scissor paper rock shoot or 1 2 3 shoot instead of how I grew up with it (rock paper scissor shoot). I wasn’ t the only one confused though. There were young men and women all over the room saying rock and when the other was saying scissor. There were lots of “redos” going on but soon enough there was better communication and the games went smoothly. After we had one final winner we sat down in a circle or rather spokes wheel.
In the first row of the circle/wheel a head delegate, who was chosen by the youth group to represent them as a whole, sat. Then behind him or her the other group members were filled in. Before the meeting began we went of some hand gestures that would let others know what we were thinking about their comments. For example, twinkle hands up high meant you thought what they were talking about was a good point/idea and agreed with them, making a “C” with your hand meant you would like a point clarified, and making a triangle with your hands meant you have a comment about the process of the statement or the meeting in general.
Then we moved on to the agenda for the meeting. There a few agenda points they wanted to cover. The first point was made by a youth group and was a proposal about getting the support of YOUNGO to be able approach the negotiators and get signature for petitions. This proposal was made because right now, youth access groups (like the many at the meeting), cannot physically get signatures because they are not accredited. So a vote was taken for this proposal after some comments as well as questions and answers regarding the topic stated. There were thumbs up given by most of the youth group lead delegates so proposal passed and therefore would become a goal for YOUNGO in the future.
The next thing on the agenda was a brief discussion of ClimateLegacy by the youth group SustainUS. They want to think of a way to show a human face of climate change. Any ideas?
Also mentioned at the meeting was that the youth is making progress. They have the first ever youth day at the COP, which is on Thursday.
To learn more about YOUNGO and what the youth is doing about climate change please visit http://youthclimate.org/
In the first row of the circle/wheel a head delegate, who was chosen by the youth group to represent them as a whole, sat. Then behind him or her the other group members were filled in. Before the meeting began we went of some hand gestures that would let others know what we were thinking about their comments. For example, twinkle hands up high meant you thought what they were talking about was a good point/idea and agreed with them, making a “C” with your hand meant you would like a point clarified, and making a triangle with your hands meant you have a comment about the process of the statement or the meeting in general.
Then we moved on to the agenda for the meeting. There a few agenda points they wanted to cover. The first point was made by a youth group and was a proposal about getting the support of YOUNGO to be able approach the negotiators and get signature for petitions. This proposal was made because right now, youth access groups (like the many at the meeting), cannot physically get signatures because they are not accredited. So a vote was taken for this proposal after some comments as well as questions and answers regarding the topic stated. There were thumbs up given by most of the youth group lead delegates so proposal passed and therefore would become a goal for YOUNGO in the future.
The next thing on the agenda was a brief discussion of ClimateLegacy by the youth group SustainUS. They want to think of a way to show a human face of climate change. Any ideas?
Also mentioned at the meeting was that the youth is making progress. They have the first ever youth day at the COP, which is on Thursday.
To learn more about YOUNGO and what the youth is doing about climate change please visit http://youthclimate.org/
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