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How Can Cities Pave the Way for a Sustainable Generation? HOW CAN CITIES PAVE THE WAY FOR A SUSTAINABLE GENERATION? Green Proposals for the C40 Summit 2019 1 HOW CAN CITIES PAVE THE WAY A special thanks to Student from the organizations SIMA/KU, FOR A SUSTAINABLE GENERATION COPACC/KU, SDG advocates/KU and CONCITO for serving – GREEN PROPOSALS as mentors and executing the Youth Takeover WELCOME SPEECH AT FOR THE C40 SUMMIT 2019 A special thanks to the jury for qualifying the ideas: Creative commons: Attribution – Noncommercial – Share alike. THE YOUTH TAKEOVER Amalie Villesen, Political Advisor, Alternativet The photographs are limited by © Authors/contributors: Kate Hampton, CEO of Childrens’ Investment Youth participants of YTO and C40 City delegates Fund Foundation (CIFF) (the list of youth participants can be found on the inside Monika Skadborg, Chairperson, Danish Youth Climate Counsel of the cover of this publication). Asbjørn Riis-Søndergaard, Founder and Advisor, ARS17 Camilla Niebuhr, Director, The Children and Youth Edited by Louise Dalsgaard, Jakob Skovby, Administration, City of Copenhagen Jesper Koch Bro and Ane Rottbøll Jørgensen Ellen Dorsey, Executive Director, Wallace Global Fund Today, we’re all being given the opportunity while it’s our future that is depending on Graphic design by Signe Marie Ohrt signemarieohrt.dk Helle Mathiasen, Professor, Department of Science Education, to listen to one another, face to face. And our it. The children today are the adults of the Photographs by Niels Busch nielsbusch.com University of Copenhagen Iben Krog Rasmussen, Chief Visionary Officer, Thinktank Frej hope is that we can find a way for all of us future. And if we don’t act now, our future 1st edition, 1st printing Number printed: 200 Jarl Krausing, International Director, CONCITO to cooperate, side by side, towards taking is not going to look very bright. Jens Viliam Hoff, Professor, Department of Political Science, a whole new step in the direction of helping University of Copenhagen our climate. So we are thrilled that so many of you Jonas Lieberkind, Associate Professor, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University from around the world have come today Kirsten Dunlop, Chief Executive Officer, Climate KIC We know that we are young. And we know and shown that you want to listen to us Liselotte Lyngsø, Founding Partner, Future Navigator that in the eyes of a lot of political leaders and to each other. Mads Strarup, Vice Principal, Københavns åbne Gymnasium Morten Lynge Madsen, Programme Director, Plan Denmark around the world, we are simply just kids. Rasmus Sune Reeh, Chief Consultant, Copenhagen Solution Lab, But our biggest wish for this meeting today It’s important for us to emphasize that we are City of Copenhagen is to sit down together as equal citizens. Not not here to point out what should have been Rikke Willumsen, Teacher and Profile Coordinator, Randersgade Skole just as kids and adults but as a joint group done. We don’t want to look back, we want Stefan Bruse Straten, Project Manager, CONCITO who are all fighting for the same cause. to look forward – together. We’re here to Trine Kofoed Hybholt, Project Manager, Department act now and to bring in new ideas. We want of Sustainable Development, City of Copenhagen For the past year with all the climate strikes, to share our ideas with you, and we want to Also, a special thanks to the Live Like Tomorrow team and the millions of children all around the world have listen to your ideas. Because we definitely C40 team for the opportunity to present and share our ideas shown that we are willing to take action and believe that we are much stronger together. on how cities can pave the way for a sustainable Generation. to do what has to be done. The young people Our dream is that we all work together take the climate crisis very seriously, so we towards creating a world in which the green wish for all of you to take us seriously. choice is not just the right choice but also the easiest choice. And in the end – the Let’s start a joint collaboration today, where only choice. Not just for us as individuals, the adult leaders think of the young people but for everybody. as a resource in the effort against climate change. We want to take part in a joint vision, So let’s start today. Let’s sit down together where we all work towards the same goal. as equals, let’s not judge people by their age We want to take responsibility. We want to but by their ideas, their commitment and teach our younger siblings, our parents, our their willingness to help. Everyone here today grandparents, our teachers and our friends has already taken a big step and shown to take responsibility too. We want to be your great courage, just by showing up. agents of change. Use us right now, instead of waiting until we get older. Because we We hope that after today, we will all have know we can make a difference. new strong common ideas ready to put into action. We will all have made new friends It is our world, as much as it is the adults’ and we will all be even more eager to keep world. And the fact is that we are going fighting for the climate together. to live in this world for a much longer time than the politicians who have all the power. Thank you all for coming! And now! But right now, they are making all the choices Let’s take some action! 3 METHODOLOGY AT HOW WE DID IT THE IDEA DIALOGUE For the past months, youth from The Climate Facilitation Training At the youth takeover, the youths worked Developing Idea Suggestions Ambassador Education, the Copenhagen The youths went through professional on developing concept suggestions on how For developing the solutions, the youths Youth Council and The Joint Public School facilitation training and speech-writing to strengthen the youths’ position in the worked together with C40 city delegates. Council have been planning, shaping and sessions to rehearse the various roles green transition of their city. The concepts Separated into small groups, they developed training for the final Youth Takeover, and of the Youth Takeover and to prepare were developed in groups working within idea suggestions within the three different they have been developing content for this for press conferences and roundtable three different tracks: themes. The idea suggestions were presented handover on youth engagement. Here is an meetings with mayors. for a jury who subsequently provided overview of the process: feedback. Based on the feedback, the Youth Takeover Track one: groups would further develop their idea The Climate Challenge At the main Youth Takeover, the youths CLIMATE KNOWLEDGE suggestions and eventually select the best The youth was asked to arrange and facilitated the event and participated AND EDUCATION of their ideas for further development. host the C40 Youth Takeover by the Mayor with their own perspectives in roundtable page 7-9 of Children and Youth in Copenhagen, discussions. Among the participants were Jesper Christensen. As part of the task, local and international youths of different Track two: Concept Development they were asked to acquire knowledge ages – young Climate Ambassadors, the CLIMATE CAREER In the last phase of the Idea Dialogue, about climate change and youth engage- Copenhagen Youth Council, the Joint Public AND JOBS IN THE FUTURE the best idea of every group was further ment in order to properly represent youth School Council from the City of Copenhagen, page 11-13 developed, and feedback from the jury from around the world. students from Next Generation City Action helped them strengthen the realizability of (by DTU Skylab), University of Copenhagen, Track three: their ideas, as well as their degree of youth Knowledge on Climate Change and Denmark’s green think tank CONCITO, THE YOUTH’S ACCESS TO engagement. Lastly, the ideas were gathered and Youth Engagement all of whom developed solutions on youth POWER AND PARTICIPATION in this paper for the final handover. Working together with student organizations involvement in climate action together with ON THE CLIMATE AGENDA from The University of Copenhagen and C40 City Delegates. page 15-17 the green think tank CONCITO, the youth acquired knowledge about climate change A jury of experts gave feedback on the idea and various perspectives on the political proposals throughout the event. The best The aim of the Idea Dialogue was to develop engagement of the youth. ideas were included in this handover. a catalogue of ideas to be used by the delegates as inspiration for involving the Climate Camp Handover at Main C40 Summit youth in the green transition of their city. On a two-day climate bootcamp, the The idea catalogue was presented to city youths formulated what they saw as the delegates on the main stage of the C40 most pressing issues concerning youth Summit. The goal is for the idea catalogue Mapping the Challenges engagement in climate politics based on the to inspire city delegates to implement some In smaller groups, youths from the C40 knowledge acquired throughout the process. of the ideas and to find ways to strengthen Cities mapped out what they saw as the These issues formed the basis of the issues the voice of the youth in the fight against most pressing challenges within their track. addressed at the final Youth Takeover. climate change. These challenges formed the basis for the solutions developed through the rest of the Youth Takeover, as well as for the concepts presented in this handover. 4 EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE ON CLIMATE CHANGE We know that with knowledge comes the High quality education power to change the future, but also the on climate change responsibility to try to change it.
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