Indian Youth Climate Network Calls for National Summit on Climate Change

In continuing with its commitment to bring together and unite the youth from across India, to tackle the issue of climate change and demand stricter policy level interventions to mitigate the same, the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) – the youngest Indian coalition on the issue – has called for an Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change (IYSoCC). The summit will take place in the Indian cyber city of Hyderabad (now also known as Cyberabad) from 7th to 10th August, 2008 in the Infosys campus and will be the voice of young India, to secure and safeguard the future of the Nation and the Planet. The summit will also highlight the importance and need of youth representation in policy level decisions and push to ensure that the voice of the youth is heard for the fact that it is the future of the youth which is actually at stake.

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As an entire generation that will have to live with the risk of a changing climate, youth have a major stake in climate change mitigation. In particular, as the Kyoto Protocol approaches the end of its implementation period, the next few years will prove significant for any meaningful mitigation approach. In this context, IYCN believes that the Indian youth should now express their concern with different stakeholders through collective action and concerted efforts.

The underlying objective of the summit is thus to provide a platform for youth to define climate change from their viewpoint and to engage in dialogue on possible solutions through steadfast and resolute action, in order to fight climate change and to propagate the values and principles of sustainable development.

In addition to IYCN, the summit is also being organized by the Friendship Foundation (Hyderabad), Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (Bangalore), Nature & Biological Sciences Society with Infosys and the Asian Citizens Alliance as the key partners, all of whom are working to ensure  adequate youth representation from all parts of the country.

Previously, IYCN’s Delhi Youth Summit on Climate (DYSoC) organised in the heart of the capital city New Delhi, saw participation from all over the city. Like DYSoC, the IYSoCC is also planned to come out with an Indian Youth Charter on Climate that would be presented to the President of India and to all concerned decision making bodies in the country.

Registration Form and other details for the Indian Youth Summit on Climate Change can be downloaded here: http://iycn.in/summit/iysocc

Click here to read the Delhi Youth Charter on Climate

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