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UPEI student Joshua Darrach selected to attend UN conference on climate change
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Joshua Darrach, a fourth-year student at the University of Prince Edward Island, has been chosen to be one of 25 youth attending the next UN climate change conference in Poznan, Poland, in early December of this year.
Darrach was chosen to attend the conference by the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD) to Poznan through a highly competitive process that drew an outstanding roster of applicants. The CYD to Poznan is joining over 500 youth from around the world to voice their concerns about climate change and advocate for stronger measures to fight it.
“The conference in Poznan is potentially the largest and most important international meeting on climate change in the past 10 years,” he says. “With the Kyoto Protocol set to expire in 2012, discussions must start now to decide how countries will address the issue of climate change. The time to take action is now!”
The CYD has done groundbreaking policy and communications work at UN climate conferences in the past, and it has been influential in the process of these international negotiations. Youth attending the Poland conference with the CYD will coordinate a variety of influential activities, including policy research and writing, creative outreach events, and writing and blogging about the conference.
“Canadian youth expect a lot from the negotiations in Poland, and I feel very privileged to represent them,” he says.
Darrach, who will graduate from UPEI this spring with a degree in philosophy and environmental studies, will attend the negotiations as a youth observer. He has been working with local, national, and international groups to solidify tangible action on climate change for the last four years and has been a member of the CYD to the UNFCCC conferences in both Nairobi and Bali. Last year he received public speaking training from Al Gore and David Suzuki as a way of empowering his local community to demand real domestic action about the climate crisis.
Launched in the fall of 2006 to engage youth in international climate change negotiation processes, the CYD is a project of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. For information about the current delegation, please visit www.cydpoznan.org.
For more information, contact Darrach at (902) 940-6291 or josh.darrach@me.com.
Darrach was chosen to attend the conference by the Canadian Youth Delegation (CYD) to Poznan through a highly competitive process that drew an outstanding roster of applicants. The CYD to Poznan is joining over 500 youth from around the world to voice their concerns about climate change and advocate for stronger measures to fight it.
“The conference in Poznan is potentially the largest and most important international meeting on climate change in the past 10 years,” he says. “With the Kyoto Protocol set to expire in 2012, discussions must start now to decide how countries will address the issue of climate change. The time to take action is now!”
The CYD has done groundbreaking policy and communications work at UN climate conferences in the past, and it has been influential in the process of these international negotiations. Youth attending the Poland conference with the CYD will coordinate a variety of influential activities, including policy research and writing, creative outreach events, and writing and blogging about the conference.
“Canadian youth expect a lot from the negotiations in Poland, and I feel very privileged to represent them,” he says.
Darrach, who will graduate from UPEI this spring with a degree in philosophy and environmental studies, will attend the negotiations as a youth observer. He has been working with local, national, and international groups to solidify tangible action on climate change for the last four years and has been a member of the CYD to the UNFCCC conferences in both Nairobi and Bali. Last year he received public speaking training from Al Gore and David Suzuki as a way of empowering his local community to demand real domestic action about the climate crisis.
Launched in the fall of 2006 to engage youth in international climate change negotiation processes, the CYD is a project of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition. For information about the current delegation, please visit www.cydpoznan.org.
For more information, contact Darrach at (902) 940-6291 or josh.darrach@me.com.
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