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New Voices of Youth
International Youth Conference Elects Advisory Council
Nairobi/Leverkusen 30 August 2007 - The election of a new Youth Advisory Council today marked the culmination of the third biannual Tunza International Youth Conference, held in the German city of Leverkusen. The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) conference brought together more than 180 young people from 85 countries to discuss ways of promoting environmental awareness through technology.
With two advisors for each of the six UNEP regions (Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, North America, and West Asia), the Council is a vital link between UNEP and young people, as well as providing a strong youth representation in environmental conferences.
\"I want to make the voices of young people heard\", said Sara Svensson, from Sweden, a newly elected member for Europe. \"The Council is a place where we can also share ideas on ways to have a better future\".
During its two-year mandate, which ends at the next Tunza International Youth Conference, the Council will advise UNEP on better ways of engaging young people in its work, represent their peers in international environmental fora and increase youth involvement in UNEP's work by informing young people in their regions about UNEP's programmes for youth.
The new Council brought together six young men and six young women, who are heavily involved in environmental activities in their respective countries. The gender balanced Council was elected by the participants, aged 15 to 24, at the end of the five-day conference (August 26 to 30), which was hosted at the headquarters of Bayer, the largest sponsor of UNEP's children and youth activities.
The new Tunza Youth Advisory Council members are: Adel Rahmani (Algeria), Margaret Koli (Kenya), Wang Fengzhu (China), Jessie James L. Marcellones (Philippines), Sara Svensson (Sweden), Dmitri Tasmali (Turkey), Gabriela Almeida Monteiro (Brazil), Handy Acosta Cuellar (Cuba), Caitlin MacLeod (Canada), Thomas Christian (USA), Zainab Humdain (Bahrain) and Jamal Alfalasi (United Arab Emirates).
\"The conference was very interesting. It gave me the opportunity to meet people with the same interests and I learned a lot on how to address environmental problems within my community and with my government's help\", said Gabriela Almeida Monteiro.
\"In Brazil, we have problems regarding clean energy. Here, at the conference, we visited a windmill and this will help us develop a similar project and present it to the government for adoption,\" she added.
The Tunza Youth Advisory Council, launched in 1999, also helps to supervise the implementation of the pledge and commitments made at the conference.
At this year's conference, with the theme 'Technology in service of the environment', the delegates expressed their concern in their pledge with the \"social impacts of environmental degradation, and the global and regional distribution of environmental threats upon vulnerable communities\".
Adding that they were \"aware of the implications of inequality and the need for environmental reform\", they pledged to advocate \"environmental justice in our work and the work of the Tunza network, and lobbying decision makers, UNEP and its governing council to protect, empower and support these groups.\"
They also asked the new Advisory Council members \"to use our pledge as a basis for their work in advising UNEP and representing youth.\"
Pledge of the Tunza Conference for Environmental Justice
\"We, the youth gathered in Leverkusen, are concerned with the social impacts of environmental degradation, and the global and regional distribution of environmental threats upon vulnerable communities.
We are aware of the implications of inequality and the need for environmental reform.
We envision a world wherein environmental benefits and natural resources are equitably distributed, and access to information and participation in decision making are enjoyed by all.
We call for the support of vulnerable communities, including small island states and less developed countries, women, and indigenous groups.
We commit ourselves to advocating Environmental Justice in our work and the work of the Tunza network, and lobbying decision makers, UNEP, and its governing council to protect, empower, and support these groups.
We ask the incoming TYAC to use our pledge as a basis for their work in advising UNEP and representing youth.
As we consider the state of the planet that we will inherit, we stand together to address the challenges of our generation.
We wish to pass our children a fair and sustainable world; we know the problems and we know the solutions: the time to act its now.
We want environmental justice, and we want it now.\"
Tunza Youth Advisory Council members
Adel Rahmani (Algeria), born in 1987, is a member of the LE SOUK Association, where he works on environmental education. He has organized environmental awareness campaigns for students. In June 2007, Adel organized an excursion for 200 children from the Algiers hospital to a dam where they learned about the importance of conserving and protecting water.
Koli Margaret (Kenya), born in 1987, is a member of the Youth Environment Network-Kenya where she helps to organize youth workshops to create environmental awareness. She has helped to create a strong network of young environmentalists in Nairobi.
Wang Fengzhu (China), born in 1986, is a member of the Green Association of HZAU (Huazhong Agricultural University), in Wuhan City, and of the Green Long March and the Northeast Asian network of TUNZA. She wants to be involved in the creation of a sustainable environment youth network in the Asia Pacific region. Her favourite quote is \"Let our green dream fly\".
Jessie James L. Marcellones (Philippines), born in 1986, is a member of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines (BSP) and is a Bayer Young Environmental Envoy-Philippines, where he helps to implement environmental protection activities among the people of Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
Sara Svensson (Sweden), born in 1984, is the vice-chair and project officer of Youth and Environment Europe (YEE), a federation of 60 youth environmental organizations in 30 countries in Europe. She is also the international secretary of the Swedish organization F鋖tbiologerna (Nature and Youth Sweden) and active at the local level in the same organization.
Dmitri Tasmali (Turkey), born in 1987, is a member of the International Chain of Awareness (ICA), with whom he works to raise awareness about the major environmental issues, organize conferences for school students and ensure the implementation of decisions taken.
Gabriela Almeida Monteiro (Brazil), born in 1985, is a member of AIESEC, an International Student Association. She works in Salvador, Brazil, and has taken part in the Earth Charter Youth Initiative. She intends to initiate a project within AIESEC to raise environmental awareness among poor communities in her city and introduce the values and principles of the Earth Charter.
Handy Acosta Cuellar (Cuba), born in 1985, is a member of the biggest NGO in his country, ProNATURALEZA. He is also a member of the National Coordination Group of the Cuban Youth Environmental Network, where he promotes TUNZA and UNEP strategies and projects. He coordinates and belongs to the Clean up the World Campaign in Havana.
Caitlin MacLeod (Canada), born in 1986, is a member of the Quebec Public Interest Research Group(QPIRG), an organization focusing on social and environmental justice issues where she works as coordinator of the Campus Climate Challenge (CCC) in Montreal. She is also involved with the Sierra Youth Coalition, a national network engaging youth in working toward sustainability.
Thomas Christian (USA), born in 1987, is Regional Director for 2020 Vision, a non-profit organization that focuses on energy security, oil addiction and climate change in the United States, with whom he organizes events and raises awareness in Georgia and the Southeast.
Zainab Humdain (Bahrain), born in 1987, is the Vice President of Environmental Citizenship Program ECP in Manama, which communicates the values of the Earth Charter and works towards sustainable development by delivering workshops for schools, kindergartens and orphan care centres. She also organizes events and campaigns addressing several pressing environmental issues in Bahrain, such as reclaiming land from the ocean, climate change and other themes. Her favorite quote is \"You must be the change you want to see in the world\" by Mahatma Gandhi.
Jamal Alfalasi (United Arab Emirates), born in 1987, is an Environmental Awareness officer, working under the Environmental Education Project for the Knowledge and Human Development Authority, in Dubai. The Environmental Education Project aims to increase awareness about environmental issues facing Dubai, and help promote environmentally friendly living.
About the Tunza programme:
The Tunza programme, endorsed in 2003, is a comprehensive six-year strategy to promote the participation of children and youth in every part of the world in environmental activities. It focuses on four thematic areas: awareness building, capacity building, information exchange and facilitating the involvement of young people in environmental decision making.
Other activities of the Programme include regional and sub-regional seminars and workshops in Asia and the Pacific, Africa, and Latin America and the Caribbean, plus a quarterly magazine for and by young people entitled Tunza, an annual International Children's Painting Competition and an environmental illustrated series for children.
The event in Leverkusen follows conferences in Dubna, Russia, in 2003 and Bangalore, India, in 2005. It alternates every year with the Tunza International Children's Conference which took place last year in Putrajaya, Malaysia, and will be held in Stavanger, Norway, in June 2008.
Note to Editors:
For more information on the 2007 conference and the Tunza programme, please visit:
Tunza International Youth Conference Website: http://www.tunza2007.unep.bayer
UNEP Tunza International Youth Conference Website: http://www.unep.org/tunza/youthconference/
Podcast by Mr. Achim Steiner, UNEP Executive Director: Young Environmentalists: http://www.unep.org/newscentre/d ... dcast-list&l=en
For More Information Please Contact:
UNEP: Eric Falt, Director, UNEP Division of Communications and Public Information, Tel: +254 20 7623292, Mobile: +254 733 682 656, E-mail: eric.falt@unep.org, or Theodore Oben, Chief, UNEP Children & Youth Unit, Tel: +254 20 7623262, Mobile: +254 724 255 247, E-mail: Theodore.oben@unep.org |
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