Solar Generation

After only 3 days of meetings (3-5 of november 2006), something really great happened : the AYICC has been launched !!

The African Youth Initiative on Climate Change has been lauched officially today.
A hundred of young people, from all over the world, but mainly from African countries, spent 3 whole days to prepare this. We were organized in several working groups, each of them dealing with a different topic: the structure of the network, the official declaration, the launch, etc.

I felt the excitement in their voices during the presentation, they were so proud of how they achieved it! They were journalists, a woman from the government, artists and others NGO’s!

A whole continent is being mobilized by its young population.
They are numerous, they are motivated and they have supporters.
They feel directly concerned by the issue, they already set up projects in their countries and they want to unite their strength.
They are fed up of waiting for their governments involvement, they want to set the example of a common and concrete union.
They are not about to stop here, they are giving the first step of this COP MOP!!

It didn’t even began and this huge thing is happening.

Tomorrow, when the delegates will heard of it (if they haven’t seen yet the TV show on KBC Channel 1 explaining all this!) they will know that they can’t make smaller commitments than those youngs! (cf. picture) We saw it at the news while we were celebrating it in a kenyan restaurant!

To thank us, the African students gave to the 30% of non African young, who also contribute to the creation of this network, an “official” certificate! I admit that I was very sensible to this particular attention…

As Solar Generation we will help them in the concrete establishment of their network, to be efficient quickly!

There will be 2 others launches this week: the 7th (direct live on the Conference website website, http://unfccc.int/meetings/cop_12/webcast/items/3882.php) and the 16th.