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The weekend of November 13-15th brought together young people from around the world to meet in Lund and discuss climate change ahead of the climate summit in Copenhagen, COP15. The 300 participants at KLIMATTING ETT increased their knowledge by listening to lectures on, among other things, climate policy and the carbon footprint of food. The new skills were used in the three tracks that would develop proposals to be submitted to COP15, to start climate related projects and to create recommendations to improve each individual's ability to reduce their climate impact. On Sunday, a vote was held in order to bring forward the three best ideas from the weekend.

One of the reolutions was that the participants will present a proposal to introduce a global bank for Climate Action, to which all countries must pay 2 percent of GDP.

The young people stressed most of all the importance of education in climate and sustainability issues. Most votes received a proposal that recommended a strategic investment in education for sustainable development, ranging from nursery, primary and secondary schools to politicians, adults and seniors in the community. Formal, informal and non formal education for sustainable development are all crucial pieces in order to establish this.

Some of the participants created a campaign project against plastic bags; "plastic bag kills", and with the intention to promote taxes on environmentally harmful products.

In addition to these proposals came several other ideas that might become a reality. For example, how about a system equivalent to Weight Watchers points, but on greenhouse gases?

The messages and the results were presented on Sunday 15th to local politicians: Mats Helmfrid, Mayor and Chairman of the City Executive Board, Karin LOODBERG, Head of Environmental Strategy Department, Håkan Samuelsson, Coordinator for Lund's cooperation with Sweden's Climate Municipalities, Tomas Björnsson, Swedish Society for Nature Conservation and Climate Network, and Dimitra Papoudimitriou, Caretakers of the Environment International (CEI), Greece.

Negotiations are under way right now for the proposals from KLIMATTING ETT to get a space at the EU pavilion during COP15, but many of the youngsters are already determined to go to Copenhagen and attend whatever the outcome!