From today onwards, I will be reporting on the UN Climate Conference, COP15, in Copenhagen, representing the WSC-SD.
To give a kick-start, below is the first article.
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SUSTAINABILITY: OUR CHALLENGE, OUR FUTURE

Sustainability does not only refer to maintaining environmental balance and renewal. Sustainability encapsulates three facets of life: the environment, society and the economy. We live our lives in the overlaps and intersections of these facets, and our actions and attitudes help shape them. Their changing shapes in turn affect [...]

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(published in NRC: 14/3/2009) – in Dutch
Geachte minister-president Balkenende,
De kredietcrisis leidt tot een noodzaak aan nieuwe investeringen, die een in het slop rakende economie van de ondergang moeten redden – daar bestaat momenteel veel consensus over. Echter, over waarin wij als samenleving moeten investeren is veel debat.
Als vertegenwoordigers van de jongere generatie – een generatie die [...]

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Today, students are playing crucial roles in opposition movements throughout the world, fighting for democracy and the implementation of human rights. Though they often are the first ones to climb the barricades, sadly they are also the first ones to be forgotten. The purpose of the Student Peace Prize is to make their voices heard, [...]

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A young people’s summary of the  United Nations Human Development Report 2007/2008
The young people of the world have produced a Youth Booklet that includes drawings, poems and human stories on climate change and development, entirely made by and for young people!
The booklet has been developed by Peace Child International jointly with HDRO, and launched on Youth Day 2008.
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