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The Global Humanitarian Forum's Youth Forum

 

Global humanitarian challenges concern young people as much as they concern the older generation. Nowadays, those challenges can no longer be solved separately from each other, be it across nations, across religions or across generations.

It is crucial that the younger generation has access to a platform where they can express their views on humanitarian issues, present their ideas to overcome those challenges and exchange their thoughts with peers and key stakeholders of the older generation.

As young people, we need to come together to tackle humanitarian challenges!
We need innovative and action-oriented strategies to overcome those challenges!
We need to discuss with world decision makers and act together, now!

 

Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Any results so far?
Food for thought on what still needs to be addressed during the two coming days of negotiations You have probably heard that the negotiations are not going very well here. Countries cannot agree on certain key issues, essentially in the amount of emissions reductions for Annex 1 countries (no big surpirse), short and long term financing for adaptation and mitigation (more and more money is asked for the developing countries) , and even on REDD.   To illustrate these divergences, let us ...
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Thursday, 10 December 2009
How do they negotiate?
How can 15'000 persons agree on a text supposed to change the world in two weeks? That is what I was asking myself before coming to Copenhagen. Here are a few keys to understand the world of international negotiations.
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