Solar Generation

May,6th - By Fei Xiao Jing

Today is the day for the opening session of the board of Governors, all the delegates, especially the financial ministers from ADB members are invited for this session, and for us Solar Generation is cherry blossom day. Cherry blossom is considered the national flowers of Japanese, every year it blossoms in early spring, and full-blown in only one week. It is threatened, as one of the result of the climate change. We use it as gift to the delegate of the ADB 40th annual meeting, to arouse their consideration to the urgency of global warming problem, and the ADB’s responsibilities to take a leadership in this region to stop funding fossil fuels and switch to the renewable energy.

The gift is a bookmark with the picture of cherry blossom, as well as an artificial cherry blossom, which we got ready two days ago. We waited on the way to the event room; sent the bookmark with flowers to delegate, especially the governor from ADB members. I think they like them, many people even come and ask me for the bookmarks. We were always smiling and saying, “Cherry blossom, have a nice day!” Though our activities lasted only half an hour, we sent out more than 600 book marks as well as flowers. The message in the bookmark is the voice for we youth, for our future and the future of human beings as well.

This is the first time for me to take part in the Greenpeace actions, thus I am very excited. As an ecology student, I know much about the climate change, the course, the result and the solution, as well as the urgency of this problem. I think our actions is very meaningful, though many people may think their too small to affect the strategy of the ADB, as it is a large organization with government background. However in my opinion, climate change, as well as other environment issues cannot solve for one person or one organization only. It needs effort from different fields and the whole society. One speaker in the seminar of “Asian cities: Environmental Management and Financing Challenges” referred the “3P” system for solving the environment issues. ”3P” refers to people, private and public. Different parts of society have different effects. What we are doing is to let the public and governor in Asian release the urgency of the climate change, as well as the ADB’s responsibilities in this issue. Let them to give pressure to ADB, let it quits fossil fuels and so-called clean coal programs and prompt the renewable energy and energy efficiency programs.

We are young generation, we have the right to action for the welfare of our future, we are doing what we want to do and what we can do. Everyone has his own responsibilities, so do ADB and other organization similar to it. For climate change issue, the only solution is renewable energy and energy efficiency, so ADB, as well as other stakeholders should take their responsibilities. We like cherry blossom, but we do not want our earth is like it, just full-blown for short time but develop sustainably, that we solar generation wish.