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IYCN Bhubaneshwar Chapter Launched

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The Bhubaneswar (Orissa) chapter of the Indian Youth Climate Network was launched on 11 th June 2011 to engage
IYCN Bhubaneshwar Launch

on climate change adaptation and mitigation issues. Orissa does not paint a rosy picture when it comes to climate change and environmental degradation. Orissa is experiencing the most extreme climatic weather condition since a decade ranging from heat weavs and cyclones to floods and droughts. The state has been declared disaster affected for a staggering 95 times within the last 105 years. State governments are demanding the central government to include heat wave in the calamity relief funds considering the acute situation in Orissa. Total 2787 people died due to the sunstroke from 1998 to 2009. 

  

Candid about Cancun

The climate negotiations live to see another day! Amidst the cheer and applause that marked the end of the talks in Cancun, Mexico; a mischievous sense of relief was shared by many parties and observers to the COP. Did we strike a historic deal that will limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius? Did we pave the way for a sustainable future? Far from it! The Cancun negotiations were a diplomatic success and an environmental failure.

Many have already commented on the outcomes of COP16 but here we look at the pros and cons from Cancun and attempt to simplify it for our readers.

Pros

a) After the disappointing outcome of Copenhagen, the UNFCCC process was under severe stress to deliver an outcome that was negotiated in a transparent and consensual manner. Cancun managed to deliver on this front. It restored faith in multilateralism as all nations except one (Bolivia) signed on to the Cancun agreements. Possibly realizing that it was counterproductive as it was an unaffordable risk to hijack the process, parties laid their guns to rest for a little while.

Great Power Race - The Winners

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Another round of climate talks are approaching an end in Cancun, Mexico and the odds for achieving a fair, binding and ambitious climate deal seem highly improbable. But while negotiations are slow, a race has just ended between the youth from India, China and the United States. The Great Power Race was a clean energy competition between campuses in these three countries and the competition culminated in the announcement of the final winners and an awards ceremony at the COP16 negotiations.

Organized by 350.org and implemented by Energy Action coalition, Chinese youth climate action network and the Indian youth climate network, the race provided a platform for student teams to build climate solutions on campuses and prove to the leaders that the youth have gotten to work and they expect the same from their leaders. [img_assist|nid=1295|link=none|align=right|width=640|height=445]

IYCN has had the pleasure of organizing this competition in India and we hope this will lead to more similar projects next year and the years to come. We thank all our supporters, friends from China and the United States and every one of those hundreds of campuses and teams that have registered and executed some amazing projects. We hope to continue this collaboration in the future with more exciting programs.

IYCN J&K - Plastic ban drive

The Jammu and Kashmir chapter of IYCN has been one of our very active chapters in the country. Ever since the Green solutions fair in May, the team of Reetu Asrani and Owais Ahmed along with other volunteers have been working with various Govt. bodies and other individuals to create innovative and creative projects and campaigns for the valley. Not withstanding the constant threat of a curfew or an outbreak of violence, the team has been working on different programs.

Quite recently, in partnership with the State pollution control board; the IYCN team organized a drive against plastic in the valley. On December 2nd, noting the national air pollution control day; a drive against polythene bags was organized. [img_assist|nid=1293|title=Polythene drive_J&K|link=none|align=right|width=200|height=120]

Polythene is legally banned in the state of J&K yet people continue using it. Instead of penalizing defaulters, IYCN and SPCB decided to involve students in spreading across the message that polythene is POISON for the health and environment. Students from different campuses were deputed at various crowded locations in Srinagar City such as Press Enclave, Residency Road, Polo view, Regal Chowk, Lal Chowk, Amira Kadal, Dal Gate, Hari Singh High Street, SMHS hospital, Karan Nagar, Sanat Nagar and Jehangir Chowk, etc

Maldivian statement from COP16 - Call for 350

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The following is a statement from Mr Mohamed Aslam, the Minister of Environment and housing to the High level segment at the ongoing COP16 negotiations in Cancun, Mexico.

The statement reiterates the need for more political will and leadership from all nations of the world to safeguard the very survival of small island nations. A call for more ambitious targets like 1.5 degrees C and 350 PPM was made and nations urged to anchor the pledges from the Copenhagen accord in a balanced, legally binding framework.

8 December 2010

Your Excellencies, distinguished representatives, ladies
and gentlemen,

Allow me to express my thanks and full support to the Mexican presidency, for overseeing such a well run, open and transparent Conference of the Parties here in Cancun.

Excellencies, distinguished delegates,

Given the short time slot we all have to make our statements here, let me get straight down to business.

There is much talk about numbers here in Cancun. We already know which numbers are necessary to ensure our survival. And we know the numbers necessary for the survival of other small island states, which are threatened by coral bleaching, ocean acidification, saltwater intrusion,coastal erosion and sea level rise. Those numbers are CO2
concentration of 350 ppm and temperature rise well below 1.5C. These numbers are strongly backed by science.