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The Copenhagen Manifesto

During the last afternoon of the Youth Forum 2009 the participants drafted in a common effort the Copenhagen Manifesto, a document stating the young adults’ demands and expectations towards the representatives of their home countries at the COP 15. Expressing the participants’ concerns and hopes about the high-level meeting, the Youth Forum 2009’s Copenhagen Manifesto should be received as a legacy of the Youth Forum 2009.

We the young adults demand, that:

1. The leaders of nations and organizations no longer justify emissions caused by their acts, but act for the benefit of all

2. Developed countries have to support developing countries to adapt to the impacts of climate change and must create an effective renewable energy development fund

3. Climate refugees must be given the same legal status as any other refugee

4. Climate awareness must be a part of every school curriculum

5. Negotiations should be viewed through collaborative online media, to create complete transparency and openness

6. It be a human right not to suffer from climate change related disasters

7. There be pressure on countries to meet their Kyoto commitments and that the Copenhagen agreement should drive fundamental systemic change

8. The Copenhagen conference must result in an agreement that addresses the needs of all

9. We all move beyond self-interested concepts of nationalism to an integrated vision of one system: earth

I can't in words express how concerned I am about the current state of the world. The COP 15 meeting is one part of the solution. However, the most important part of the solution is to be found within us all...!

Until later

Emanuel