Category Archives: UNICEF Children's Climate Forum

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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Taking our message to the world!

By UNICEF NZ, Published: December 4, 2009

Tomorrow, the 160 Youth Climate Ambassadors attending the Children’s Climate Forum in Copenhagen will present a written resolution to the president of the COP15. This resolution will lay out their recommendations for world action on climate change. Travis Mills, one of the Kiwi Climate Ambassadors, has been selected to attend the press conference that will follow [...]

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