Amidst the chaos and throng of people, the COP15 negotiations continued at a steady but increasing pace. You can notice the increased confidence in the people as they discover their purpose within the conference. A conference of this size, roughly 45,000 participants, the meetings can seem quite hectic but we do hope that we can have some form of influence. Our goal as TYN members is to lobby and get out our policy line into the negotiating text, to try to influence leaders into adopting a legally adopting agreement, and to network and create contacts, potentially as speakers for future summer symposiums, to obtain leadership roles within youth working groups, and develop new ideas for upcoming TYA conferences.
So far, our second day is quite productive, though we are still finding our feet. Xander Brouwer has provided support for participants, who have new ideas on Youth Produced Media. Beth Gunningham engaged with the adaptations policy group and is now working on drafting policy text as well as finding candidates to interview. Sven Herreman took charge of the finance policy group and will be representing them in the spokescouncil. Michelle Son attended the US State Department briefings on recent negotiations. On an exciting note, all members of the TYN delegation will be attending the spokescouncil meeting tomorrow morning. We hope that tomorrow will be equally as productive as today.
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