Can Citizens Action Save the World?
02.09.2010
The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation in Sweden has published a new report, asking the basic question any young green activist has in his heart: can we change the world? It was written by someone who probably has some more experience with this than we folks: the boss of Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo. It is not only […]
Bonn III – revenge of the bad deal
18.08.2010
The divide between supporters of the Copenhagen Accord (CA) and those countries, who favour the Bali Action Plan (BAP) became once again visible to all in Bonn. Further, the negotiation discourse was tried to be changed, again between these rival groups. One side tried to work more on a conceptual change to provide their positions […]
GYG celebrates International Year of Youth
16.08.2010
The Global Young Greens (GYG) are part of the international youth. As a network we are one part of a big movement to bring together young activists and professionals alike. Our focus is on green issues like ecological sustainability, social justice, equality and democracy. While we aim at young greens in particular, we are aware […]
Proposals for new Statutes of GYG
26.07.2010
Read the new proposal here: GYG-New_Statues-ENG (official version to work with) GYG-New_Statues-FR GYG-New_Statues-ES GYG-New_Statues-POR
Cap and Dividend or Cap and Divide?
20.07.2010
As the battle over a “cap-and-trade” bill in the U.S. Senate went from hot to dead-cold after Dems showed signs of putting politics over policy and fencesitting Republican Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) left John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Joe Liebermann (I-Conn.) alone with their “American Power Act”, a new sign of hope where one could go emerged. […]
Glaciers in the Himalaya and why they are so valuable
13.07.2010
While climate-deniers and other “free thinkers” still debate the lack of professionality of the IPCC concerning the two sentences on the glacier melting-process inthe Himalaya (remind: the IPCC took just one source which was unsure after all while most of the other stuff in the IPCC-report AR4 s verified by several hundreds of scientists), the […]
Kenyan Young Greens Meet Worldbank
29.04.2010
See their report KYG – WB Envt Strategy – 2010.
Nestle versus the World
28.04.2010
The gen-food giant Nestlé has forced Greenpeace to take down a video campaigning against it on the grounds of Nestlé using palm oil. Here you can see the video! Have a break? from Greenpeace UK on Vimeo.
Amazing Picturs from China – about Pollution
20.04.2010
I would like to share with you all the following link which brings us to an overview of pictures form Lu Guang. I am not posting this to give a bad impression on China, its people or landscape. Pictures like those were made all over the world by artistic photographers as there is much pollution […]
New Websit of GYG!
16.04.2010
Hello, the GYG have a new website, check it out! www.globalyounggreens.org