06.08. 2014
United Nation Youth Association says both the rural and urban population young people are been affected by climate change.
Association Secretary General Mathews Kalabo tells this blog that Climate Change is affecting all sectors of the economy.
Mr. Kalabo has since called on world leaders to give a platform to the young at the forth coming Climate Summit which begins on 23rd September this year in New York City.
Climate change is not only a science but a real problem which is today having consequences on people’s lives.
This environmental problem is disrupting national economies, costing the world dearly today and even more tomorrow.
Now as World leaders meet next month at a climate Summit in New York City UN Association says both rural and Urban Youth have been negatively affected by Climate Change.
Mr. Mathews Kalabo who is the associations’ Secretary General has also urged world leaders to give an opportunity to young people at the 2014 Climate Change Summit.
And Speaking from United States of America via a Tele -Conference monitored by Desire Media Concepts in Lusaka at UN information Centre Dan Thomas, a Senior communications Officer under the United Nations Secretary General’s team on climate Change disclosed that the young will be represented at a summit
Meanwhile UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited world leaders, from government, finance, business, and civil society to Climate Summit 2014 this September to galvanize and catalyze climate action.
He has further called on leaders to take bold announcements and actions to the Summit that will reduce emissions, strengthen climate resilience, and mobilize political will for a meaningful legal agreement in 2015.
