It\’s Getting Hot In Here

It another day at the climate negotiations, so there’s another action on the ground from our youth delegation.  Today, street theater was in style as youth dressed the part of big business attempting to sell “dirty development” to delegates as they entered the United Nations Climate Change Conference.  Given the significantly increasing roll industry plays in the negotiations young people wanted to point out that all too often the negotiations are being heavily weighted towards creating a framework to ensure a ‘climate business’ rather then address climate change.

Watch As Big Business Sells Delegates On Dirty Development:

Read on for statements from youth that participated in the event…

“The action falls on the heels of a informal discussion around the WTO playing a larger roll in the negotiations,” says Anna Keenan a youth delegate from Australia “we are concerned that rather then addressing climate change, we are negotiating how to set up a climate business framework focused on enshrining dirty energy. When the development of so-called ‘low-emissions’ coal is what certain countries are referencing as a step forward, we are building a climate business rather then a road map to address climate change”

“If our leaders keep buying into dirty development, such as low-emission coal, nuclear and carbon sequestration, these negotiations will have been successfully bought by the industry,” says US youth delegate Dominic Frongillo. “We want to point out the linkage between industry and the current course of the negotiations. We challenge the delegates to put a higher value on our future and push towards a Bali Breakthrough.”