GHF 2009: Greetings from Geneva

Hi (unfortunately I can greet you in any other funky language). My name is Charlie and I’m one of the five Global Changemakers in Geneva at the moment. Kofi Annan, on behalf of the Global Humanitarian Forum, has asked for four youth from the front line (I’m just here to help) to talk about the fight against climate change.

 

We kindly obliged. From South Africa, Myanmar, Canada and India the climate witnesses have come.

 

By front line we mean those experiencing the effects of climate change not in 2050 or 2100 but today. These people are very rarely given a voice unaltered by the media or misconceptions. Tomorrow we will get the chance to hear what is happening and also what they, as activists, are doing about it. Rolling up their sleeves and breathing deeply, Happy, Linn, Lavanya and Lauren prepare to blow the statistical cobwebs from the minds of the 400 incredibly influential people who await tomorrow’s stories. Their talks will be up on youtube and the text versions available here soon.

 

Enjoy… though I’m not sure that’s the right word.