Job opportunity in Copenhagen during COP15 (full-time for 3 weeks: 1-20 Dec)

FYI - this has been circulated on behalf of YOUNGO to contacts and organizations in Copenhagen.

 

 

** PLEASE CIRCULATE TO CONTACTS IN COPENHAGEN **

 

 

The UN climate negotiations will bring more than 1000 young people from around the world to Copenhagen. These youth will work together on lots of different activities inside the conference and need support to help make this possible. If you have skills in managing details, can work hard and remain focused, and have a flexible schedule from 1 - 20 December, we are looking for you. There are 3 positions being filled for the job of youth logistics support staff.

 

Responsibilities of the positions:

 

- Perform data management and administration duties such as maintain contact lists, staff the Youth office, and maintain an updated library of relevant youth information.

- Help setup, run and takedown youth events

- Help track expenses and basic financial management

- Facilitate local transportation needs

- Purchase supplies around Copenhagen on behalf of Youth

- Support other youth activities at COP as needed

 

 

If you are interested, please send a short cover letter and resume by email to applications@youthclimate.org with the subject heading of: “Application for youth logistics support”. Candidates must have a good knowledge of Copenhagen and lived in the city for at least 2 years. The position will require working flexible hours, including evenings and weekends.

 

 

 

Applications will be reviewed, and candidates selected as soon as possible (on a rolling basis) so apply right away. Please do not apply any later than 30 November at 2359GMT, but applications received earlier have a better chance of being interviewed. Only qualified candidates will be contacted for an interview.

International Youth Council needs your help at COP15

The COP15 conference in Copenhagen is in 11 days and IYC needs your help!!! Some of you expressed interest in participating and taking facilitative roles for IYC participation at COP15. Please respond to thread  on IYC google groups (http://groups.google.de/group/international-youth-council/) on the duties you are able to commit to: 

A. Need someone ASAP (within the next day): Need someone to facilitate IYC Partnership with tcktcktck.org and work with Jamie Ansorge, Director for Global Operations

B. Facilitate partnership with MDG achievers, Friendship Ambassadors Foundation & other NGO's 

C. Facilitate all youth connections at COP & manage IYC membership

D. We need someone to play an active participation role for IYC for the UNFCCC YOUTH BIG UNITY WORKING GROUP

E. ***** To those interested: Please join this group UNFCCC Youth Group:http://groups.google.de/group/unfccc_youth and let me know which working group (WG) you would like to participate in and moderate for IYC. If you are already involved with the WG, please let me know which one you are involved in. 

1. Conference of Youth (COY) December 5 - 6
2. Youth Produced Media WG: Primary means of communication to discuss and develop all aspects of Youth-Produced Media activities leading up to (and beyond) Copenhagen
3. Youth Communications WG: Discussion for youth involved in the UNFCCC process
4. Youth Actions WG: Means of communication to discuss and develop Outreach/Actions activities to take place at COP15 in Copenhagen! 
5. *** YOUTH BIG UNITY WORKING GROUP: Means of communication to discuss and develop proposals for external coordination leading up to and during Copenhagen! 
6. Youth Climate info: General climate info relevant to youth organizations and individuals around the world. Examples of messages: campaign announcements, events, research, requests for input/ideas, etc.

F. IYC writer for COP15: G-1 Billion is the youth press agency covering what comes out of COP15. We will have two IYC members joining G-1 Billion team to produce updates from COP15. We need someone to help and work with our IYC communications Director, Sean Flax, to review the material we are sending and make sure that it is 'international media worthy'

G. If you know anyone who would like to participate in this & join IYC please have them email your membership info to Asha Castleberry, Director for Strategic Partnerships, at asha.castleberry@yahoo.com 

 *****INFO ON YOUNGO UNFCCC Youth http://youthclimate.org/

Thank you for your time & help. My apologies for sending in request a little late. Please respond to email: garciaesperanza@live.com with subject line: IYC COP15 role if you have any questions, otherwise respond on your interest in the IYC google groups page that we just opened.  I commend you all for all the work you are doing in pursuit of a sustainable and just world for our generation and generations ahead of us. Global Youth leaders today, World leaders tomorrow. Let's rock this show!

Ecohope gaining International Recognition

At the UNFCCC Barcelona Climate Change Center Nov 2-6, 2009

Ecohope Blog Post featured at Current!

Featured on National Geographic

Project with Vito Selma featured on 350.org on International Day of Climate Action!

Featured on popular French Magazine

 Bonne Nouvelle

Vito Selma you are BRILLIANT!

International Day of Climate Action in Times Square!

350.org International Day of Climate Action at Times Square

Today on October 24, 2009, 350.org unites the world for The International Day of Climate Action. Considered to be the most widespread day of environmental action in history, over 5,200 events in 181 countries came together to call for a clear solution to the climate crisis: reducing the level of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere below 350 parts per million.

Even in the rain, people gathered for a rally in Times Square for a call to action on global warming. Displayed on the Times Square billboards were photographs of 350 statement from all over the world.

Bill McKibben makes a 350 statement!

From Bill McKibben founder of 350.org

Campaigns like this don’t “win,” but sometimes they have moments of real success. We’re showing you the current front page of the New York Times, which has a picture from Copemhagen. Roughly the same kind of coverage is happening in the Associated Press, on Google News, at the BBC and CNN, and on and on. This has nothing to do with us, and everything to do with you–with the creativity and passion and sheer energy that you bought to this day, which eventually overwhelmed even the most jaded reporters and editors. It’s an outpouring different than any the world has ever seen.

Our photo at Times Square!

350 International Day of Climate Action in Cebu

350's Photostream!!!

350 International Day of Climate Action in Cebu
Photographer:Vito Selma

350 is the most important number in the world— This number is the safe line for our global climate and a start line for a global movement. On October 24, 2009, the International Day of Climate Action, 350.org brings together 4,000 events in over 170 nations to take action in their community, engage our world's leaders, and build an international movement to solve the climate crisis.

Talented Filipino photographer, Vito Selma, and BRIGHT Academy students from Cebu City, Philippines joined people all over the world to make a 350 statement and take a stand for a safe climate future. This picture will join others to be projected on the big screens in New York's Times Square, and delivered to major media outlets and hundreds of world leaders in the coming weeks.

“The Philippines is a country that is among the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change,” According to Nasa scientist, Josefino Comiso. The children of Cebu take action for their country and the future.

ITS TIME FOR A CHANGE. October 24, The International Day for Climate Action. GREAT THINGS will happen around the world. Taken at BRIGHT Academy. Thank you, Cheryl Pages-Alba and BRIGHT Academy for supporting this very significant cause. These children are our future! Thank you, Esperanza Garcia, for being a constant inspiration.

-Vito Selma

For media coverage please contact Vito Selma at donvitoselma@yahoo.com

1. Top 10 photos in http://current.com/green/
2. One of the main pics circulating http://www.350.org/
3. On Philippine local newspapers
4. Will be shown to world leaders at UN
5. Shown at Times Square!

photographer: Vito Selma

Underwater Cabinet meeting in the Maldives

Maldives Underwater Cabinet Meeting for 350

On Saturday, 17 October, the president of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, and his ministers held an official cabinet meeting in an unusual location – underwater. The Maldives government held the first ever official meeting underwater as part of an international movement organized by 350.org to draw global attention to the pressing issue of climate change. To call attention to their country’s plight as a nation already feeling the effects of climate change, ministers gather to ratify a statement calling for rapid greenhouse gas reductions. To communicate, they used hand signals and wrote on slates. The statement will be presented at the UN climate change talks in Copenhagen this December.

http://www.350.org/maldives

350: MALDIVES CABINET GOES UNDERWATER FOR OFFICIAL MEETING 

THE PRESIDENT OF MALDIVES MEDIA GALLERY

Global Women Take Action on Climate Change in Climate Week NYC (Blog Action Day)

Global Women Take Action on Climate Change Climate Week NYC

During Climate Week in NYC, Global Women leaders focused on ways in which women around the world are providing leadership and organizing their communities in confronting the devastating human impacts of climate change. As a young woman environmentalist, it was so inspiring to be around Global women leaders who already are stewards in a global issue in need of immediate global action.

Carol Jenkins, President of the Women’s Media Center, welcomed 60 high-profile guests from media, policy, government, business, NGOS and entertainment on behalf of the TckTckTck campaign. Speakers included: Mary Robinson, first woman President of Ireland, Constance Okollet, Chairperson of Osukura United Women; Ritt Bjerregaard, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen;Bo Lim, the Special Climate Change Adviser at the United Nations Development Program; TckTckTck Climate Witnesses Sharon Hanshaw, Executive Director, Coastal Women for Change, Constance Okollet, Chairperson, Osukura United Women, Ursula Rakova, Executive Director, Tulele Peisa, and Ulamila Kurai Wragg, Head of Climate Change Team, WAVE.

Global Women Leaders answers UNICEF’s Unite for Climate Youtube debate

YOUTH CLIMATE DEBATE 

Are your political leaders doing enough about climate change?

Ritt Bjerregaard, Lord Mayor of Copenhagen

Bo Lim, the Special Climate Change Adviser 

at the United Nations Development Program

Tracy Mann of TCK TCK TCK

Constance Okollet, Chairperson of Osukura United Women, Uganda 

Ursula Rakova from the NGO Tulele Peisa, Papua New Guniea

Women still under-represented in climate debate

SUN COME UP

"WE NEED MORE WOMEN LEADERS"

 

 

International Day of Climate Action in Philippines (Blog Action Day)

International Day of Climate Action in CEBU

On October 24, people around the world take a stand on Climate Change for the International Day of Climate Action.

The 350.org team has just secured permission to display the 350 photos from around the world on the MASSIVE screens in the heart of New York City, with global media standing by to broadcast the story worldwide!  The photos from the big day will all have the number 350 depicted in them somehow, and will act as a huge visual petition that we'll send to world leaders. On the Monday after October 24th, the 350.org crew will be visiting UN headquarters to hand-deliver the photos to diplomats and delegates the world over.

What is Ecohope doing for 350 day?

 

  

On October 20, Esperanza Garcia, blogger of Ecohope, along with the brilliant Byron Garcia, and talented photographer, Vito Selma, bring together the Cebu Provincial Detention and Rehabilitation Center (CPDRC) inmates, to make a 350 statement. CPDRC is a maximum security prison in Cebu, Philippines. The prison is best known worldwide for their version of Micheal Jackson's Thriller video. 

 

RSVP Here: http://www.350.org/philippines350

We will stand together as one planet and call for a fair global climate treaty. United by a common call to action, we'll make it clear: the world needs an international plan that meets the latest science and gets us back to safety.

Promote Philippines, promote 350- LET US TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS EVENT!

 

For media coverage please contact Vito Selma at donvitoselma@yahoo.com

For CPDRC contact Byron Garcia at byron_garcia86@yahoo.com

Thanks to Vito Selma for coming up with brilliant idea!

BLOG ACTION DAY FOCUSES ON THE PHILIPPINES!

CNN: BLOGGERS UNITE ON CLIMATE CHANGE in Philippines

BLOGGERS KAPIHAN: Filipino bloggers take a stand on climate change

BLOG ACTION DAY: THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT FOR COP15

THE INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CLIMATE MOVEMENT FOR COP15

A message to the Youth of the World: 

We need to mobilize for ambitious goals

 A. A Global Youth Climate Change Bill by the youth for the youth

Gathering Global Youth Ambassadors from each country to sign a Global Youth Climate Change Bill that is ambitious, fair, and binding. As young citizens, we are responsible in the development of global policies that provide ourselves a framework in moving on further in the green agenda.

 

B. Provide innovative solutions to ensure that the Millennium Development Goals are met by 2015

Climate change presents significant threats to the achievement of the MDGs especially those related to eliminating poverty and hunger and promoting environmental sustainability. Our generation must mobilize to provide poverty eradication methods and sustainable development objectives that ensures the achievement of the MDGs.

 

C. The Global Youth Climate Change Center

The center will become a symposium where the youth can gain more hindsight on the effects of the degradation of Climate Change, and work with leading academics to find innovative and constructive solutions to Climate Change.

 

The world is facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges. We need to gather with new ways of thinking, new cultural values, and new ways of organizing society. We have the resources and technology available. We have the ability to present innovative solutions to solve the global challenges that we are facing. We need to bring our international efforts together not only in the mitigation of Climate Change but also provide resources for the adaptation of the impacts of Climate Change. Copenhagen is the most appropriate time to develop an international youth climate movement.

 

We are in this together,

 

Esperanza Garcia 

  

 

Posted on BLOG ACTION DAY October 15, 2009

 

Obama wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

The Norwegian Nobel Commitee awards President Obama  the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize for strengthening "international diplomacy & cooperation between peoples. Obama will donate roughly $1.4 million award to charity, White House says

President Obama comments on winning the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Oct. 9, 2009.(Jim Young/Reuters)

"I am both surprised and deeply humbled by the decision of the Nobel committee. Let me be clear, I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather of an affirmation of American leadership on behalf of aspirations held by people of all nations. To be honest, I do not feel I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize. Men and women who have inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace. But I also know that this prize reflects the kind of world that those men and women and all Americans want to build, a world that gives life to the promise of our founding documents. And I know throughout history that the Nobel Peace Prize has not been given for specific achievement, it’s also been used to give momentum to a set of causes. So that is why I will accept this award as a call to action."

- President Barack Obama speech

 “Thanks to Obama's initiative, the USA is now playing a more constructive role in meeting the great climatic challenges the world is confronting.” 

- The Norwegian Nobel Committee recognized Obama’s change of US climate policy

Obama wins Nobel recognition for his climate policy 

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