I'm going to a very exciting conference, 'Climate Change: youth perspectives on security, peace, democracy'. Basically, it's a high profile conference on climate change for the leaders of tomorrow, coming from a great variety of organisations (NGOs, business associations, youth political movements) and countries (in Europe, Americas, Asia).

The conference's programme reads:

“The transition towards sustainability will present new challenges for global leadership. globalisation makes us more mutually interdependent than ever before. Leaders require a holistic mindset, and to be open for ideas on how to make our global village sustainable.
This three-days-conference will provide the possibility for the group to examine the meaning of leadership, with the stimulating company of other committed individuals.
The purpose of the conference is to examine and discuss how the participants and their organisations can relate to, and work for, sustainability, and give the participants concrete tools to bring back home, to share with colleagues and friends.”

Among the speakers at the conference there will be Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, the chairperson of the IPCC, who shared this year's Nobel Prize with Al Gore; Michael wood, the US ambassador to Sweden, climate campaigners of SNF and WWF Sweden, and lots of other very interesting and inspirational people.

As you can probably feel, I'm very exciting about this event. Today and the day before I held consultations with my comrades from Hållbart universitet and from Green Students Lund, where I was just re-elected as a co-spokesperson. I've got some valuable ideas and advices on what and how I shall communicate at the conference. You can also follow the conference's proceedings on the live blog at http://climatechange.joneysworld.com

I plan to have a series of meetings in Lund, after I come back, to report back to my organisations about what has happened at the conference, what was my role there, and what were the things that I learned there and contacts that I made that we can use in our local activities and to benefit our members. I'll post more about that on my blog later.