Number of plenary sessions, working groups and side events was huge and the first reaction was: « ok, take a deep breath, you can survive that! »
And we did survive well. YOUNGO, the coalition of youth organizations at COP of which SCI is part, took part in a climate flash dance. Hundreds of us danced and sang an anti-CO2-emission song that gathered quite a big crowd of spectators, especially media. Young people were visible as well during the open session of AWG-LCA when our friend from Samoa Islands made a touching speech about climate change that was widely commented after.
In our SCI group we are trying to be active and follow different parts of negotiations and work in diverse working group. I'd like briefly describe what happened in mine in last 24h. I got active in the topic we simply called forest, less simply REDD. This acronym stands for The United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries. Being honest, for me it was a brand new issue. But last days I've learned so much about it. I can recognize now the differences between RED, REDD, REDD+ and REDD++. Sounds interesting? ;) But it is. Our group meets everyday to discuss the progress in negotiations, learn more about all their aspects. Our next meeting will be to write an intervention presenting young people's position on the forest topic.
I'll be informing you regularly how is it going.
Keep fingers crossed for the forests!
Milosz
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