CSE gives children an opportunity to voice their concerns on
global environmental governance, in their own way The Eighth
Conference of Parties (CoP-8) to the United Nations Framework
Convention for Climate Change (UNFCCC), being held in New Delhi
between October 23 and November 1, 2002, will in many ways
determine the future of global economic and environmental
governance. On Friday, October 25, the third day of these
crucial negotiations, about 400 children from across the country
and from different economic backgrounds will collect to voice
their concerns on equal rights to the atmosphere, on behalf of
children across the world, and to caution the Indian government,
and negotiators, to be aware of their responsibilities to future
generations and urge them towards a greener and more equitable
world. In the end, it will be the children who will have to live
with the rules made today. This being a crucial international
event, the demonstration of children to demand a new beginning
in climate change negotiatio