MaximsNewsNetwork: INTERNATIONAL YOUTH DAY & ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, CLIMATE CHANGE
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MaximsNewsNetwork: 12 August 2009 – United Nations – UNTV: Marking International Youth Day, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warns that young men and women around the world are hit excessively hard by the impact of the global economic meltdown and climate change. Young men and women around the world are hit excessively hard by the impact of the global economic meltdown and climate change, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned today (12 August) in a message marking International Youth Day. In a message read by Jean-Pierre Gonnot of Division for Social Policy and Development (DESA), Ban said that unemployment is only part of the problem, especially for youth in developing countries, where informal, insecure and low-wage employment is the norm, not the exception. He added that he was also encouraged, however, by the contribution on the global warming mitigation and adaptation debate made by youth and said that their views and proposals can help build the momentum necessary to seal the deal in Copenhagen later this year. He was referring to the UN climate change conference in December that will bring together world leaders to agree to a successor carbon emissions pact to the Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012. Jonathan Hiles, of the United Nations Environmental Programmes (UNEP) regional North American Youth Network said that climate change should concern all of us as we will all contribute inevitably to the problem or to the solution. He argued that therefore we need to trace …
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