Friday... PlanetCall.org; Youth Voices

This side event consisted of four youth activists who shared their ideas about how to save the planet and an expert panel commented on each idea. The room was super packed with all the seats filled and people sitting on the floor and standing in the doorway because the room was so full. (FYI, the name spellings maybe way off, they presented them really quick) The expert panel consisted of Tim Flannery, Dan Kammen, Jessy Tolken and Jeremy Leegit

Shane- International Director of Chinese Youth
The Chinese youth need to be motivated, there is 400 million of us. They have a problem with motivation and education because there is a language barrier, so youth organizers have trouble getting tools to help them create change. He believes we need to start a bilingual media outlet to connect all of the youth organizers to help interconnect the movement even more. "We need ideas to help create new ideas."

Panel Response:
Jessy Tolken said that the Energy Action Coalition (a huge youth activist platform here in the US) just got the capabilities to go international and will be expanding soon. This will help create more ideas and bilingual, trilingual organizer tools.

Amanda McKenzie - AYCC
Create a dynamic school partnership between schools in developing nations to those in developed nations. This would allow each community to learn about each other as well as help the developing community money wise.

Panel Response:
Tim Flannery said that young people are focusing on societal change, not only infrastructure change and the biggest gift is to let someone see the world through your eyes and you through them.
Jessy Tolken: There is a fundamental shift in addressing the issues and then new generation will better understand where others are coming from, we are trying to better understand where others are coming from.

Christopher - World Student Community for Sustainable Development
 His solution was helping promote small scale agriculture.

Panel Response:
Tim Flannery, agriculture is very imporant and if we address agriculture properly we can solve many problems simultaneously. 
Dan Kammen, Young people and nature are thinking about the ticking clock yet in the plenary halls we are are debating the timetables and yet nature doesn't care
Jeremy Leegit; We need governments to lead but individuals must also influence their own sphere's of influence.

Precar - India Climate Network
Since people are concerned over their daily bread over long term consequences and implement technologies at a grassroots level.

Panel Reponse:
Dan Kammen, The range of solutions are not waiting for the political will and we need to find areas that clean energy will be profitable but also be beneficial to the individuals using it.