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Foto: Nikolai Linares

■ When delegates from the

Childrens Climate Forum
visited Kløvermarken in Co-
penhagen, they learned about
environmentally friendly hou-
sing. Among the delegates was
17 year old Kristy from Hong
Kong, who told about living in
a flat on the 80th floor, in a city
without bicycles. »If you ride a
bike in Hong Kong, people will
probably laugh at you,« says
Kristy States.

■ Uniteforclimate.org is a
web portal, which covers the
Children’s Climate Forum. On
this site one can also view the

Why are the monkeys in cages?

web TV broadcasts covering
the climate forum produced by
students from Ørestad Gym-
nasium. Arturo Romboli from
Unicef characterises as a cli-
mate Facebook.
■ »It’s nice and easy. Yesterday
we went on until midnight and
we’ve agreed on the demands,
we want to communicate to the
leaders of the world. We have
our points and principals rea-
dy, it’s just not a text yet,« says
Martin Dover, a danish par-
ticipant in Children’s Climate
Dina Pustita Sari from Indonesia
is visiting Europe for the very first
time. Yesterday, she went to Co-
penhagen Zoo, where she passed
several exotic animals.
By Johanne Bille
Clara Lambert og Olivia Hviid
■ »It’s so weird seeing the monkeys locked
fore it’s too late,« Dina says.
It’s not only the low temperature, polar
bears, and penguins that fascinate Dina.
She is also startled by the Danish culture.
»Where I come from, you learn to respect
the grown-ups. You don’t answer back, and
actually you don’t really speak your mind
at all. So it’s a little strange for me to come
to this meeting where it’s even expected for
me to have an opinion on everything,« Dina
says.
And now, she has the opportunity as one
of Indonesia’s three climate ambas-
sadors.
»We discuss the climate a lot in the hotel.
We all experience global warming in diffe-
rent ways,« Dina says.
She turns to snap a picture of the frozen
puddle and continues:
»But in the end, it’s all goes back to
one huge problem, that we must solve to-
gether.«

Forum, where the delegates are
now preparing the decleration
which Connie Hedegaard
(photo) will bring on to next
weeks COP15.
up like that,« Dina Pustita Sari bursts out
as she walks by the chimpanzees in Copen-
hagen Zoo.
Back home in Indonesia, she lives in the
rainforest, where monkeys live in freedom.
»It’s all very new for me, I am almost
paralyzed every time I turn. But the most
shocking thing for me this far would defi-
nitely be the cold weather. This is the first
time I see ice, but I love it already.
Hopefully, I will also get to see snow be-
»
Climate change at close range
Her life in the rainforest was a big moti- since i live in the
vating factor when she decided to spend so
much time in favour of the environment. reainforest, I ex-
»Since I live in the rainforest, I experi-
ence the climate changes at a close range.
perience the climate
I watch, as species become extinct. In our changes at close ran-
community, we care for the nature, because
we’re so dependant on it. That’s the
ge.
message I want to deliver.« Dina Pustita Sari

How do you and your family protect yourselves against the climate changes?

youth journalists cover

children’s climate forum

In the week prior to the COP15,

164 teenagers from 44 coun-
tries are participating in their
own climate forum at Copen-
hagen City Hall, hoping to
influence the decisions of the
world leaders. But adults are
prohibited. The Danish newspa-
per Urban has made an alliance
with youth journalists from Blessing Onyinyechi Walter Josephine Baaro Rose-Coralie Norris
Oerestad Gymnasium to join 16 år, Nigeria 16 år, Kiribati 13 år, Haiti
the fight in giving the children
a voice in the international »We plants trees, to reduce the CO2 in the »The sea level rise is the only climate im- »6 months ago, I did not care about the
climate debate. atmosphere. At the same time we inform pact we experience, therefore we build sea- climate, because I didn’t know anything
our neighbours and others in our area walls. We have also tried to plant mangro- about it. Then I was at a UNICEF-camp,
This wallpaper has been made pos- about global warming and its consequen- ves on the costal areas. The seawalls are where we were informed about how bad it
sible through the partnerships of Ur- ces. In the future I would like to start a not very effective, so we keep on building is, and now I’m in a communication-group,
ban, the City of Copenhagen, UNiCEF fond, to inform others across Nigeria on the them higher, but we can only build them where we inform other children about what
Denmark and Oerestad Gymnasium. issue. However, to start the fond, we need to a certain point. When that point is reac- they can do to stop the climate-changes.«
financial support from the Government of hed, the government proposes that we im-
Sanne Nyland Christensen, Nigeria.« migrate to other countries, but we do not
snc@urban.dk want to.«