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Climate change through the eyes of our children

On 22-23 October, UNEP FI held its first ever Global Roundtable in Africa in Cape Town. Along with initiatives by, amongst others, the Green Building Council of SA and the Cape Town Partnership, this was part of Cape Town Green Week - read more on Cape Town Green Week.

Six weeks later all eyes will be on Copenhagen and the UN Climate Change Conference, where important people will make crucial commitments on climate change and carbon emissions.

But the most important people will not be there: The children. For our leaders to be truly accountable, the generation with the most to lose must be given a voice. Starting here, our children can remind our leaders just why they need to consider us.



Visit the Consider Us website (http://www.considerus.org) with your children and encourage them to let their voices be heard.

In the persuasive, stripped-down words of a child, UNEP plan to generate hundreds, thousands, millions of stark reminders that our responsibility extends beyond the here and now. That we only have one shot at getting it right.
 
These twenty-word messages will be gathered using every conceivable media and displayed, real-time, on a dedicated website. The first messages will be bound and buried in a time capsule, to be opened in twenty years’ time. We can only pray that our actions today will stand up to scrutiny in 2029.
 
“Consider us” has the potential to reach millions and affect billions more. But to seed this movement, we’ll need all the help we can get. Your contribution to the campaign will help ensure that our children don’t inherit a catastrophe in which they had absolutely no say.

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