The UK Youth Climate Coalition is a group of organisations who aim to inspire, unite and mobilise young people to campaign for a cleaner, brighter future. It is run solely by young volunteers, all under the ages of 25, who have come together from a diverse range of backgrounds to achieve their goals.
Over the last six months, they’ve organised an event called “Power Shift” to train over 350 young people on how to make their voices heard, which culminated in a dance performance outside the London eye which received national media coverage as well as organised a youth delegation (of which I’m a part of) to go to Copenhagen this December, where 197 world leaders will convene to agree a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, and their journey is being followed by an online documentary.
In the mean time, they’ve raised over £5,000 for their sister organisation the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change to support a Kenyan Youth Delegation to attend the talks in Denmark and have pledged to raise a further £6,000 over the coming months.
For more information please go to: www.ukycc.org
For more information on the delegation to Copenhagen, go to: http://delegation.ukycc.org/
