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Newsletter September 2010 Newsletter September 2010 You are now reading the fabulous, shiny, fresh and Contents: fruity Young FoEE newsletter! By reading it you can find out what Young FoE News from the Network p1 groups from all around Europe have been up to over Upcoming Network Activities p4 the past summer months; what we have planned for Special Report: Destructive Mining in Peru p5 the next months and what we have been doing col- Network Gathering; Steering Group Update p6 lectively as European youth. Stories from different Steering Group; Working Groups; Mailing lists p7 Summer Camps, the YouPEC, updates from the Diary Dates p8 Steering Group and new actions towards Cancun are all included. Sit back, relax and... enjoy! YouPEC was an amazing event that inspired all the par- News from the Network ticipants, to start acting to protect and restore Europe’s News from Belgium! biodiversity. But we cannot do this alone, we need politi- Youth Perspective on Biodiversity, July 2010 : In July, cians to act. Europe’s policy makers need to take the YFoEE participated in the third You- valuable suggestions of the young Europeans into ac- PEC (European Youth Perspective) count, constitute a more ambitious and stronger Euro- Conference, organized by the Bel- pean biodiversity policy, and ensure that there is still a gian youth organization JNM. The 5 reason for youth to be the leaders of tomorrow. ACT day conference brought together NOW! 150 young people working on biodi- versity, from across Europe, includ- The YouPEC participants ing many from the YFoEE network and YFoE groups. presented the declaration Amongst other things, we took part in lectures, work- at the EU Commission shops and the writing of a youth declaration, to build a building in Brussels, each youth voice in response to the upcoming UN Convention person held an image of on Biological Diversity October in Nagoya, and the You- Europe’s unique species PEC made space for lots of networking and action plan- and ecosystems attached ning between young people in Europe on this theme of to a balloon. To symbolize Biodiversity. The declaration, which has already been their concerns regarding delivered to the EU Commissioner of the Environment the rapidly accelerating Janez Potočnik, and national environment ministers rate of biodiversity loss, across Europe, as well as other information from the they stopped the balloons event and how you can still get involved in taking action from flying and handed for biodiversity can be found at: them over to the Euro- http://www.youpec2010.eu/. pean Commissioner for Environment Janez Potočnik. Young Friends of the Earth Europe: Newsletter September 2010 1 News from Norway! LoVeSe (Written by Bente Lorentzen): In 2010, Nature & Youth Norway (Natur og Ungdom NU) is working against the oil industry that wants to drill for oil in the areas outside Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja (LoVeSe). Whats the prob- lem? The oil industry alone is responsible for 30% of Norway's emissions. In addition, the areas outside LoVeSe is one of the richest nature-areas in Norway, with many important fish stocks and large bird colonies that is specially vulner- able to external influence like oil spills. Natur og Ungdom (NU) is working to get LoVeSe marked as an oil free area. Here are some pictures from their campaigns/actions: When we met the Norwegian oil minister, telling him When we traveled around in Norway talking to people how many tons of CO2 he would be responsible of let- about oil and environment ting in to the atmosphere if the oil industry gets the permission to drill in the areas of LoVeSe News from Ukraine! Ukrainian Youth Training Course “Youth Ambassadors for Sustainable Living. Renewable Energy and Climate Change Dimensions¨ 17-23rd July, Pavlograd, Ukraine (Written by Anna Yeliseyeva): For a week this summer, MELP (YFoE Ukraine) brought together nearly 20 young people from Armenia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Serbia, Spain, Sweden and Ukraine for the training course: “Youth Ambassadors for Sustainable Living. Renewable Energy and Climate Change Dimensions”, with the aim of building the capacity of 'sustainability ambassadors' across Europe to enable them to initiate projects, dis- seminate information, educate colleagues and become a point of contact for strategic and policy making proc- esses on Renewable Energy and Climate Change issues. The hugely successful and inspiring event had a range of activities and topics that enabled the effective participa- Further, the participants had a unique opportunity to get tion and learning of all the participants. The organisers knowledge through participation in the sessions as well invited experts to deliver training sessions and lectures as visits to local pilot manors in Ukraine, where sustain- on a range of topics from renewable energy sources able patterns of farming and energy sources have been (RES), RES policies development and implementation: used. The structure of the sessions allowed for an active best practices, global impacts of local lifestyle choices on involvement of each participant in the discussions, mak- the environment, post 2009 climate change negotiations ing inputs to the whole process. and the role of youth in the negotiation process, climate change and inter-generational equity in the point of view For more pictures and info about the event, and to find of sustainable development, organic farming as a pattern out more about YFoE Ukraine, check the website: http:// of sustainable development, sustainable consumption www.yeenet.eu/index.php/projects/yee-completed- and production in terms of economic and environmental projects/377-tc-youth-ambassadors-sustainable-living crises, zero-carbon emission concept and it's case studies on the implementation. 2 Young Friends of the Earth Europe: Newsletter September 2010 News from Germany! Kimacamp 2010: Volunteers from BUNDjugend Berlin spent many long and hard months organizing the “climate camp 2010”, where 100 people gathered from 11 different nations in the mining boundary of Garz- News from Poland! weiler. A lot of great lecturers with very exciting issues, Young FoEE Summer Camp: This year’s now famous the fantastic camping area and the tasty meals were the YFoEE summer training camp took place in the beautiful base for nine wonderful days of camping and action and peaceful Polish countryside, at an environmental training and planning against the coal industry. education centre in Starbienino near the Baltic coast. The camp this year had a special focus on skills training and exchange for effective campaigning and running of our groups, and brought together 45 participants from 17 different YFoE and FoE groups for this learning. The camp also kick started a new area of work that YFoEE will develop- with plans and a new working group set up to work on Food and Agriculture as an issue, as well as plans for future youth activities in PKE (FoE Po- land) and a new YFoE group in Scotland! The camp and PKE also got news coverage on a local TV station: http://www.telewizjattm.pl/index.php/ odtworz,2010-08-04,07 Plans are already going ahead for Summer Camp 2011 to take place in Hungary, hosted by YFoE Hungary! Because of the participants, who were very motivated and interested in the workshops, and the warm and friendly mood, climate camp was an awesome success. We wanted to reach a big number of people and to cre- ate an atmosphere that would make everyone feel that he or she is welcome – and it worked :-) For the next year we’ll try to reduce the program (even if it’s difficult) because we want you to have more time for your own ideas. We plan to be more family-friendly and interesting for kids, and because of the people working we’ll enlarge the offer of workshops at the News from Holland! weekends. But we would also be grateful to hear what The 10:10 Campaign: Young Friends of the Earth Nether- we could do better next year. We want to reach more lands is at the moment very busy promoting the 10:10 people – even you from abroad! So we would be very campaign (born in the UK, check the website at http:// glad to welcome YOU next year, too!! www.1010global.org/). 10:10 is a global campaign to cut carbon by 10% a year – starting in 2010. Check the website at : http://www.english.klimacamp2010.de/ We ask families, schools, businesses and individuals to join the campaign. In mid September we gathered 1500 scouting youth to make a very impressive aerial picture that might be used in a national TV show (see picture right). We organized a pink flash mob and went to differ- ent summer festivals to promote our activities and find new young people to join us for projects@school, @home or on the streets! Young Friends of the Earth Europe: Newsletter September 2010 3 News from all over! The Ecotopia Biketour: The 2010 biketour cycled through England, Wales, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Ger- many, where it finished at the end of August. The Ecotopia biketour is an eco-mobile do-it-yourself activist community emerging every summer already for 20 years. We aim to learn from each other and the local groups we visit and sup- port their campaigns in creative ways. We carry all our equipment on bikes & trailers and make all the group decisions by consensus. A project for everyone interested in being part of a community and traveling without engines – the exact opposite of an all-inclusive flight to the beach! In 2010, the theme of the biketour was climate justice. Read more about climate justice, our stories and adventures at http://www.ecotopiabiketour.net/ and stay in touch! Upcoming Network Activities What about Cancun? The Young FoEE Climate Justice working group is right Information and promotion to join the event will be now busy starting an exciting project to mobilize young regularly sent out to the YFoEE climate mailing list, but European activists to Brussels from 26 November- 12 you can also join the working group mailing list to be pro December, for the duration of the next round of UNFCCC -actively involved in making this event happen.
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