Our day

We ended the third day signing notebooks and giving souvenirs…

“You’ll be friends for life”: the summit’s most noteworthy sentence.

Greening Cities - The delegate’s day

Key note speaker:

I had never viewed the environmental education project of my school as my passport to a three day conference on climate changes in London. Although I’ve been working on many projects for five years, this is the most important event where I represented my school and my country. This invitation is recognizing our work. I accepted this challenge as I accepted to tackle climate changes.

1st Speaker: Global problem

The main idea we got was the problem’s global dimension. The effects are all around the world: in our countries, our families, ourselves. We must forget our differences and tackle together! That’s one of the reasons why we created strong friendship between us, and why all the delegates really enjoyed music, the global language.

2nd Speaker: Individuals work

Many suggestions to, individually, improve our planet: advice our neighbors distributing information on the mail boxes; clarify the problem to our younger colleagues are only examples. Our role, as delegates of this summit, is to transmit to families and friends the information we got and start working now! How many people we educate? What can billions of educated people do?

3rd Speaker: The schools’ work

A behavior change is urgent to tackle effectively climate changes. Schools are the places where we can educate more people in a shorter time. Children receive the information more efficiently and by educating children we are educating their families. We must tell them that it’s still possible to maintain our life conditions. That’s what my school is doing since the eighties. We entered the eco-schools project in 2003 and we received annually the maximum prize: the green flag.

Panel Debate conclusions:

After debating the delegates concluded: Our countries must do much more; this was a fantastic and unique opportunity to learn.
We understood clearly that we’ll really be “friends for life” tackling together to have a better world.

Vote question:

Yes or No:

Those three days were the most fantastic we lived.

António Lima Grilo