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offer the climate generation? Posted By Huw Oliphant On December
8, 2010 @ 8:30 pm In General | 4 Comments Across the globe,
young people are paying attention to what is happening at the
COP16 climate negotiations in Cancun, Mexico. They are the
“climate generation” — the ones who are going to have to live
with our climate legacy, our tendency to prevaricate and our
collective global failure to act sooner. The hope is that we
will see substantive progress in Cancun towards an
internationally binding agreement. This hope was echoed by a
group of 30 young climate champions (from Japan, Korea,
Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and Vietnam) who met in Vietnam
on 22-26 November 2010 and who called on the leaders of the
world to stop talking and take action  on climate change. They
were brought together by the British Council Climate Generation
Project  in a workshop that focused on green business and
entrepreneurship, aimed to help participants develop th