Young people gather to demand action on climate change
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, 17 August 2009 - Daily press briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General. The largest ever youth gathering on climate change has kicked off today in the Republic of Korea (ROK) to demand that nations seal the deal on a new pact to slash greenhouse gas emissions at a United Nations conference this December in Denmark. News Story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31774&Cr=climate+change&Cr1= Climate Change portal: http://www.un.org/climatechange/ UNEP website: http://www.unep.org/tunza/Events/TunzaInternationalYouthConference2009/tabid/964/language/en-US/Default.aspx
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