Category Archives: Climate Kiwis

Children are our future

By UNICEF NZ Intern, Published: December 9, 2009
This is a post by Sue Avison, Communications Intern at UNICEF NZ. UNICEF and Enviro-Challenge worked with five young Kiwis to get them to the UNICEF Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen, which ended last week. The Kiwi teens were among 160 other delegates from 44 countries. The Forum took place in the lead-up up to the intergovernmental [...]
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Fear, awareness and climbing coconut trees

By Ricardo Pires - UNICEF Journalist, Published: December 4, 2009
If most people were asked to point where Kiribati is on the world map, they would be in trouble. Is it a country? Is it a city? Is it a district? These questions would probably come as fast as the waves that land on the shores of this beautiful island nation, formed by 32 atolls [...]
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Live streaming from Copenhagen!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: December 4, 2009
You can view up to the minute video footage from the Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen here
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The magic of Christmas in Copenhagen…

By Travis Mills - Kiwi Climate Ambassador, Published: December 3, 2009
Our local school visit was incredible. Back in NZ the teachers wear suits, the days are jam packed and a smile is hard to come by. Here in Denmark the teachers and students are relaxed, easy going, and happy with themselves and their surroundings. When talking to the Princess of Denmark I got the feeling that [...]
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The happiest people in the world.

By Phoebe - Kiwi Climate Ambassador, Published: December 3, 2009
Copenhagen is certainly becoming the centre of the world’s attention, with a giant globe being constructed outside the town hall as I write. This “climate capital” certainly exemplifies an eco-city, with the average citizen emitting less than half the global average of CO2 annually (6.3 tonnes). Their committment to cycling, wind turbines and “district heating” [...]
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