Rio+20 Google+ Hangout w/ Brice Lalonde
A live Google Hangout with Mr Brice Lalonde, Executive Coordinator for the Rio+20 Conference, was organised on 1 June by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA) with young people and representatives from NGOs from around the world.
- Participants from all over the world asked questions, five of them being members of NGOs, associations or Rio+20 delegations. A lot of questions also came during the video chat from the social media, Twitter, Facebook and Google+. All of this occurred in the middle of the Informal negotiations at UN Headquarters last week to forge agreement on the final document (the draft outcome document, on which delegates and Heads of States could agree to during the Conference).
“You, the young generation, are the actors of change. Rio+20 is about your future and this time we need people to stand, to challenge, to inspire, to dream, to see beyond what is currently accepted by the elders.” ~ Brice Lalonde
- United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA ...Tijana Salaj #Youth4Rio Mr. Lalonde, would you agree that climate change has an extreme influence on disaster management today and are...
- cont'd ....Are there any plans to develop a programme for young people to engage in disaster management maybe through UNVs? If so, how would you secure that young people from every country take part in this (through local UNDP offices or...)? Thank you.
'Initiatives should come from international organizations and not only individual countries' @bricelalonde #Youth4Rio @MGCY_UNCSD @UNpYouth“At Rio, we would like to see widespread endorsement of and commitment to green growth with clear timelines and means of financing these commitments,” said Michael Boampong , 27, a participant who is the founder of a Ghaniaian-based NGO, Young People We Care (YPWC)
@UNDESA @UN_Rioplus20 #Youth4Rio **What are the commitments of the States, Corporates & Industry to rev-up growth...Youth needs a direction- Google+ gnu teck How young generation can be involved in saving a Planet that other generation have get their time to destroyed?
Does the next generation will wish to destroyed the destroyers seeing that as the most efficient solution for next generations? - Google+ Erynne Gilpin - I would love to ask about the role of Indigenous peoples' and of Indigenous youth (especially womyn) in discussion of addressing the root causes of climate change. I would love to learn about what spaces are available for these actors to be leaders in the discussion!
“@UNpYouth: 'Never #youth has been more associated in the negotiations. Things are moving.' @bricelalonde #Youth4Rio” #FutureWeWant“I hope that Rio+20 helps society to face the current ethical crisis, which is the origin of all other crisis we must deal with,” said Cassia Oliveira Moraes, 22, from Brazil, founder of Rio+Veg
@UNpYouth @bricelalonde fighting unemployment among est the youth and fight poverty to ensure a stable economy.“I hope to see more cooperation and less negotiation. I hope to see decisions taken for the long term interest,” said Alexandre Florentin, 26, from France, founder of MyCity+20.
@UNpYouth @bricelalonde that youth will not be considered as mere beneficiaries.
RT @MyCityplus20: 'It's important that more and more young people become committed' @bricelalonde #Youth4Rio #Rioplus20
RT @News_RioPlus20: Anyone in the world can make recommandations to the head of states #riodialogues @bricelalonde #Youth4Rio @MGCY_UNCSD @UNpYouth
Opening up clear communication channels between the #Youth and governments and should be a priority! #Rioplus20 #UN #Youth4Rio #Kuwait
#Youth4Rio What DIFFERENT strategies will u use to support youth demands expressed in the Arab Spring to provide them with a better future?"We need to have everybody involved. We have to invent new ways of discussing. Rio+20 is going to be about very simple things that we have to organize in the next years. How do we produce food without using more land, how can we have fishes in the oceans, how can we live in cities for the next 20 years, how can we organise transport, very simple everyday life problems that we have to solve together. If we don’t solve those very simple problems, then we will have difficulties retaining climate and biodiversity. We need imagination, we need to think out-of-the-box, and we need the youth for that." ~ Brice Lalonde
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Stefan MoralesI like the use of Google+ hangout to have some interesting ideas exchanged. On Brice's point about youth already doing so much (what with the 'springs', the...more2012-06-08T19:04:42.679Z
- Stefan MoralesI like the use of Google+ hangout to have some interesting ideas exchanged. On Brice's point about youth already doing so much (what with the 'springs', the...I like the use of Google+ hangout to have some interesting ideas exchanged. On Brice's point about youth already doing so much (what with the 'springs', the campaigns, the online petitions, the use of the internet, etc.), perhaps what is necessary as part of all of these talks is ways that political systems can be made more accountable to these new online forums. In Canada, where I'm from, online petitions aren't considered by our government at all, the House of Commons just doesn't recognize those 'signatures' as valid expressions of the citizenry. We need to crack-open these old regimes and make them accountable to the streams of media that the next generation utilizes.more2012-06-08T19:04:42.679Z
