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Wednesday at The CCF
Wednesday at The CCF
Wednesday at The CCF
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lots of people have already atten- By Hannah Persson, Søren Ydemark, education. them when speaking about the climate, but
ded the exhibition offering their Frederik Majlergaard, Pernille Matz, unlike Mohamed Mike thinks it should be
hands to the project,« says the
promoter of the exhibition Anne-
Naja Bendorff, Katrine Guldhammer and
Mikkel Dohn.
it’s like working the grown-ups doing the work, because of
the huge importance of the subject.
Marie Fiig and continues: »The with my best fri- It isn’t long before the boys are back at
message of the exhibition is that
if we all lend a hand, the climate
■ Aishath Shifaana, a 14-year-old girl
from the Maldives is looking very sincere
ends. work, cutting, gluing and building. There is
no time wasted and here they are taking
burden will be easier to bare for when saying this. Aishath Shifaana is sit- mohamedaxam maumoon actionimmediately. At the girls’ workshop,
the individual.« ting with three other delegates from the things are a bit slower though.
Maldives who have all come in the event of Climate scientists have foreseen that the Things are being thought of for longer
■ »We need to make the distance the Children’s Climate Forum in Copenha- water level will rise about 59 centimeters before cutting, and gluing. At the girls’ ta-
between harvest and sale more en- gen, Denmark. Aishath Shifaanaand before the year 2100 and thereby flood a ble the situation at the Maldives are not
vironmental«. That’s the message and her fellow delegates are at Billedsko- massive part of the 1.200 corals in the In- being taken quite as seriously.
of Frank Mulwa, 16, Malawi, len, a school for visual art in Copenhagen dian ocean. The students are working with »If it all goes wrong, they can just come
one of the delegates, who is placed exchanging ideas with Danish students materials like old bike wheels and tassel. and live here,« suggests a
at one of the stands in the main about ’floating schools’, an initiative made The work is going just as fluently as the fu- Danish student.
hall. He shows the other youth de- to bring the children together. ture schools.
legates how to reduce CO2-emis- »We are very exposed to future climate »It’s like working with my best friends, redaktion@urban.dk
sion, by using renewable energy
for transportation. This is shown What do you do to reduce the effects of the climate changes?
on drawings made by Frank Photos: Ricardo Pires
and some of his friends from the
Children’s Climate Forum.