“Payé ou pas, je m’engage”: c’est le slogan sur laquelle portera toute l’action de l’AJVC durant les festivités meublant la célébration des 10 ans de l’Association du 8 au 11 septembre 2011. “La célébration des dix ans en septembre 2011 revêt, a n’en point douter, une importance primordiale pour l’association jeunesse verte du Cameroun (AJVC), [...]

The overall objective of the conference is to create a platform for youths so as to increase and enhance their engagement and participation in the developmental process of their countries, consolidate the Cancun outcomes as well as to come up with regional youth position paper on climate change recommendations to the UNFCCC COP17 Durban 2011. [...]

YOUTH STATEMNET AT THE OPENING FORUM OF THE SEVENTH AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM, 12TH OCTOBER 2010: Ms. Esther Agbarakwe, Nigeria   The Chair, Climate Change poses significant challenges to future generations. As youth we have a stake in this future; it is our future. As the 7th African Development Forum, we have indeed come of age, [...]

African civil society has reacted with outrage over remarks made by Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, at the Conference of African Heads of State and Government on Climate Change. “Africa sings with one voice in the negotiations”, said Mithika Mwenda, the Coordinator of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance, “But unfortunately, Prime Minister Zenawi is [...]

Regional Coordinator for South Africa: LOMBE BILLY MWANSA (ZAMBIA – Male), 2012-2014 Facilitator, Environmental Advocate, Founder and CEO YEN-Zambia and founder of R’ashion Camp Zambia Billy M. Lombe was born in Lusaka, Zambia and grew up with the passion of taking care of the environment. When he was young he planted trees and grew vegetables [...]

Deputy Executive Coordinator / Program Director: Justine BRABY ( NAMIBIA – Female) Justine has recently been working on climate change adaptation projects in Namibia, ranging from helping develop the climate change ambassadors programme (http://cca-ambassadors-namibia.blogspot.com/), to designing and implementing the Youth Action Programme and Outreach Strategy on climate change adaptation nationally. This included founding the Namibian [...]

COP18/CMP8 Doha on Tuesday when the UNFCCC’s first ever Gender Day took place. During the day a list of high-profile speakers, including H.E. Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, took to the stage to speak about women and the important role they need to play in the fight against climate change. Speaking at an event called [...]

YOUTH STATEMNET AT THE OPENING FORUM OF THE SEVENTH AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FORUM, 12TH OCTOBER 2010: Ms. Esther Agbarakwe, Nigeria The Chair, Climate Change poses significant challenges to future generations. As youth we have a stake in this future; it is our future. As the 7th African Development Forum, we have indeed come of age, we [...]

Ibrahim CEESAY, Co‐coordinator- Africa , AYICC Ibrahim CEESAY, Co‐coordinator- Africa , AYICCIbrahim is a social justice campaigner, climate activist and independent film‐maker from Gambia. He holds leadership positions with several youth led regional and international organizations and currently serves as Head of Secretariat and Co‐coordinator of the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change (AYICC), the [...]

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The Small Earth Nepal (SEN), in collaboration with the Consortium for Capacity Building (CCB) at the University of Colorado at Boulder and the Asia Pacific Mountain Network (APMN) of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD), and with a funding support of the Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN) under the CAPaBLE Program, [...]

History was made at COP18/CMP8 Doha on Tuesday when the UNFCCC’s first ever Gender Day took place. During the day a list of high-profile speakers, including H.E. Sheikha Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, took to the stage to speak about women and the important role they need to play in the fight against climate change. Speaking [...]

2013 YOUNGO forme focale de vote Point – INDIVIDUEL Ce formulaire est destiné aux votes individuels. Si vous représentez une organisation active au sein de YOUNGO et que vous souhaitez voter en organisation, s’il vous plaît utiliser: http://tinyurl.com/2013FPorg Prêt à voter pour vos points focaux YOUNGO 2013? Jetez un oeil sur les applications ci-dessous http://tinyurl.com/2013FPapp [...]

2013 YOUNGO forme focale de vote Point – INDIVIDUEL Ce formulaire est destiné aux votes individuels. Si vous représentez une organisation active au sein de YOUNGO et que vous souhaitez voter en organisation, s’il vous plaît utiliser: http://tinyurl.com/2013FPorg Prêt à voter pour vos points focaux YOUNGO 2013? Jetez un oeil sur les applications ci-dessous http://tinyurl.com/2013FPapp [...]

The 18th session of the Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC and the 8th session of the Conference of the Parties serving as the Meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol opened on Monday, 26 November and continues until Friday, 7 December 2012 at the Qatar National Convention Centre in Doha, Qatar. Status [...]

COP17, Durban, South Africa – The African Group of negotiators have set out their five key demands as UN climate talks in Durban move into the high level stage of negotiations today. The Group, which represents 54 African countries and is chaired by Mr. Tosi Mpanu Mpanu of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, are [...]

The United Nations Climate Change Conference, Durban 2011, will bring together representatives of the world’s governments, international organizations and civil society. The discussions will seek to advance, in a balanced fashion, the implementation of the Convention and the Kyoto Protocol, as well as the Bali Action Plan, agreed at COP 13 in 2007, and the Cancun Agreements, [...]