With the signing of the Paris Agreement on 22nd April 2016 at the United Nations Headquarters, we are also opening our application for Malaysian Youth Delegation (MYD) to this year’s COP22, the 22nd Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) @ Marrakesh, Morocco!
COP22 will be another historic COP to build up the momentum right after Paris Agreement, and we’re excited to meet a delegation of change makers who are dedicated to fighting for a just and stable climate.
Your application is due 11:59 pm 15th May 2016, Sunday (GMT8+). – Online Form Here
We will do our very best to make this program financially accessible to all delegates – and with that said, delegates are inevitably responsible for covering their travel, housing, and food expenses. The MYD, will work to secure grants, hold fundraisers, and help raise money to cover trip expenses. Delegates also typically undertake individual efforts to raise funds to cover their costs of attendance. Leading up to COP22 we’ll have members of the delegation, who are experienced in fundraising, support others through the process of personal fundraising.
If you have more questions or concerns about the financial aspect of COP22, please feel free to reach out to us (powershiftmsia@gmail.com).
The Paris Climate Change Agreement opens for signature on 22 April 2016 during a high-level ceremony convened by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York, marking an important international push on the way to the agreement’s timely entry into force.
Guide to the Paris Agreement Signing Ceremony – Friday, 22 April 2016 – Click Here
Over 130 countries have confirmed to United Nations headquarters that they will attend the signing ceremony, including some 60 world leaders, amongst them President Francois Hollande of France
The event will also be attended by the President of COP21, France’s Segolene Royal, and the Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, Christiana Figueres.
All Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change are invited to sign the agreement, taking note of established international practice that full powers are required to sign.
A country’s signature on the agreement initiates the critical domestic process, on which depends its final entry into force.
This process takes many separate forms and can be rapid or lengthier, depending on each country’s domestic practices. The outcome may be countries’ instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession.
Following each national completion of this process, instruments are submitted to the Depositary under the UN Secretary-General in New York. It is only once such an instrument is deposited that a country can be said to have ratified the Paris Agreement.
The Paris Agreement will enter into force on the 30th day after the date on which at least 55 Parties to the Convention accounting in total for at least an estimated 55 % of total global greenhouse gas emissions have deposited their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession with the Depositary. An information note on the entry into force of the Paris Agreement is available here.
To mark this special signing ceremony, a social media tree-planting campaign has also been launched. The campaign uses the hashtags #ParisAgreement and #Trees4Earth.
Add your name & support to the Interfaith Climate Change Statement to World Leaders
Individuals and Groups:Add your name, along with religious leaders and people of faith from around the world will be handed over by eminent religious leaders to the President of the UN General Assembly, H.E. Mogens Lykketoft of Denmark on 18th April 2016 at an official event in New York.
The Interfaith Climate Change Statement to World Leaders (2016) outlines religious leaders and faith communities positive judgement of the adopted Paris Agreement and urges for its prompt signature and ratification by governments so that it can come into force as soon as possible. It also insists that there is a significant increase in the current levels of ambition relating to emission reductions, financial flows, adaptation, loss and damage and a swift phase out of fossil fuel subsidies – so as to keep temperatures within reach of 1.5C.
The Statement also serves to renew the strong commitment of the faith community to remain active in defining the moral responsibility to care for the Earth and encourages it own communities to reduce emissions and to divest and reinvest in renewables.
Six Key Points within the Interfaith Climate Change Statement:
Urge governments to rapidly sign, ratify and implement the Paris Agreement, and to increase pledges to reduce emissions in line with keeping the global temperature rise to 1.5C above pre-industrial levels;
Insist on rapid emissions reduction and peaking by 2020, in order to keep the 1.5C goal within reach;
Strongly advocate for greater flows of finance, especially for adaptation and loss and damage;
Urge the swift phase out of all fossil fuel subsidies and a transition to 100% renewable energy by 2050;
Encourage faith communities to reduce emissions in their homes, workplaces and centres of worship and to support and stand in solidarity with communities already impacted by climate change; and
Call for fossil fuel divestment and reinvestment in renewables and low carbon solutions, including within our own communities, and/or by engaging companies on climate change.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has invited Heads of State and Government to come to New York on 22 April to sign the historic Paris Climate Change Agreement clinched last year. Under the agreement, 195 nations have agreed to combat climate change and to unleash actions and investment towards a low carbon, resilient and sustainable future.
The Paris Agreement can only be successful if everyone fully supports it and helps bring it to life – from national, regional and local leaders; from investors and businesses to citizens who desire to live in a safe and prosperous world, and who want to actively shape that world.
Ahead of the signing event, you can say what the agreement means for you and what you are going to do to support it in a short, maximum 30-second video you record on your smartphone, pad, notebook or desktop device and post to social media. You can record and post the video between now and 28 February. Keep in mind that the recording doesn’t have to be fancy – it just has to have a powerful and compelling message!
Some of the questions you can touch on in your message are:
How concerned are you about climate change?
What are your hopes and aspirations for a better future now that we have the Paris Agreement?
How do you think your country, city, firm or organization can contribute?
What are you personally ready to do now to make the Paris Agreement work?
Once you have recorded your video, please post it on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, using the hashtags #MYD#ParisAgreement and #Means4Me. You can build sentences such as: The #ParisAgreement #Means4Me more secure jobs. Check out my video!” or “The #ParisAgreement #Means4Me: a safer world. See what I have to say” to use as short texts to post together with your video.
If you are posting to Instagram with a message, keep in mind that the maximum length is 15 seconds. And remember to include the right hashtags.
At the end of your video, can also ask someone you know to make a similar recording, or include that call in your text message (think ice bucket challenge!).
We’ll share the best ones via our social media channels and compile a collection of the best short videos in our Newsroom.
If you’d like to help promote the campaign, we have a full set of digital assets in English, French, Spanish and German you can share.
Our vision is empowered youth taking action on climate change for a sustainable future for all.
Our mission is to amplify the voice of youth movements in climate change through education and mobilisation.
The Solution > Make The Conversation Mainstream – Shaping public opinion with comprehensive climate change education at all levels, especially young people.
Program Delivery
Climate Education
Kem Solusi – Introduction to the basic science of Climate Change and the available solutions. Planning to host 6 camps yearly are various location. Targeting 6 kem x 50 pax = 300 engaged participants
Kampus Sarap – Experiential field trips and community action that demonstrate sustainability in action, waterfall and beach cleanups, visit to landfill and solar farm. Targeting 6 trips yearly x 35 pax = 210 engaged participants
#TabungPustakaIklim – Putting climate change related books onto shelves of libraries. 6 box of books x RM2,000, targeting 6 library to be engaged
Pen-debunga-an – Planting bunga raya, providing food for our pollinators, in supporting growth of a healthy forest. Promoting national flower and bee population, will be our souvenirs throughout the year.
Public Policy
Malaysian Youth Delegation – Advocacy on public policy studies on multilateral and national platforms, Policy Reading & Understanding Training. COP22 in Marakesh, Morroco, target to send 4 pax yearly to attend UNFCCC meetings and Engagement in National Policy Making
National Climate Change Survey – Nationwide survey roadshow with youth on Climate Change Awareness and Concerns. Targeting 10 briefings and survey sessions yearly x 50 pax = 500 pax
Iklim Anggota Parlimen Saya – Holding our Elected Representatives Accountable, Policy Education and Monitoring. Targeting to publish online & a book of our MPs reply on environmental & CC issues
Campaigning Skills
#PowerShiftMsia – Empowering & mentoring on effective campaigning and project management skills. Targeting 2 camps yearly x 50 pax = 100 participants and 10 adopted projects
