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Reflections on CSD-16
Reflections on CSD-16
Inheriting the future
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At this year's CSD, there are only five countries that brought a youth delegate as part of their official delegation - Germany, the Netherlands, Brussels, Sweden, and Canada. Having youth representation on government delegations is a positive and necessary step to ensure that multilateral environmental negotiations are inclusive to major stakeholders. The reason why we need to be at the negotiation table was nicely summarized by Thomas Foster who said "youth are the only constituency that will be inheriting the future."

Kudos to those countries that have taken the effort to include youth and other major groups as part of their delegation. This current outreach hopefully signals the start of more participatory environmental governance, whereby governments will start to bring a youth representative to other critical negotiations such as with the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change - why stop at the CSD?

May 10, 2008 | 10:01 PM Comments  0 comments

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