Captain Climate strongly supports the Forest Week

Captain Climate strongly encourages all the Young Greens to join the Forest Week and spread this clear message: NO FOREST - NO FUTURE. Forests are a key element in the fight against climate change, being a significant absorber of CO2.  Yet forests and their fragile ecosystems are increasingly manaced by industrial and economic activities that fail to take into account any "post-materialistic" values such as sustainability.

FYEG Action week against climate change all over Europe!

December 2007 was a month very connected to climate topics. During a few days, climate was one of the hot topics in the newspapers and magazines, and related news appeared often on TV, with special pages and documentaries devoted to the growing problem of the climate change. It must be acknowledged that this situation was encouraged on the previous months, due to the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Eventually, ecological movements managed to echo our voices in putting this topic on the global agenda.

Indeed, there were favourable conditions for media attention to the UN Bali climate change conference, from December 3^rd to 14^th, in Indonesia. Besides, the last month of 2007 also hosted a symbolic day, December 11^th, as it was the 10^th anniversary of the signature of the Kyoto protocol. Obviously, when considering these two major events from a constructive critical point of view, they do not produce so much joy, as 10 years after the protocol was agreed, several very important countries have not accepted it, while others that have done that step are far from accomplishing the set targets. Concerning the Bali conference, during the whole process a lot of pessimism appeared, to a big extent due to the attitude of US, which seemed not to wish an agreement. And this behaviour made that when in the end an agreement was met, this had to be much below several of the necessary minimum standards.

Therefore, in this worrying, yet hopeful international context, FYEG could no stay aside from this reality, as a paneuropean organization which is concerned with the importance of climate change and the role Europe -and specially its youth- must play into alleviating its impact. In coherence with that, FYEG is running currently a campaign against climate change, and as part of it, it was considered that such a climate-related period deserved an Action week, with decentralized conferences, actions, concerts, and demonstrations all over Europe. Also, a former EC member and expert in Climate Change issues, Jiri Jerabek, was able to attend to Bali for the conference, and therefore FYEG was well represented there. But the most of the action was on the streets of the European cities, where thousands of young greens claimed for a global commitment against a global topic. This is how we did it in...

The Federation of Young European Greens (FYEG) participated last weekend in Rome in the celebrations of 20 years without nuclear energy in the transalpine country of Italy. The event, organized by Giovani Verdi (Italian Young Greens) was supported by more than 10.000 people from all over the country and by activists coming from different countries in Europe.