Help young people debate climate change

On the 7th December 2009 over 1,000 young people from 100 different countries will gather online to debate climate change. This is the largest single ongoing panel of discussions outside of the conference itself and the range of young people involved gives it an unmatched reach.

Panellists come from all four corners of the globe, from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. A map below indicates where some of these young people come from, though there are so many we can’t actually fit all the pins in.

The panellists

This unique project will allow young people from vastly different countries to get involved in probably the single greatest challenge the world faces. Israelis will get together with Iranians, Americans with Afghanis, Sudanese with Singaporeans and they'll discuss what to do about climate change.

This type of panel would have been impossible without the internet, in fact it's only just become feasible thanks to Google’s revolutionary collaboration software Wave. There is a huge amount of online buzz about Wave (more than 2,000 Tweets an hour for instance) and our panel will be one on the first large-scale projects that use it for the purposes to which it was intended.

For this reason and because of the fact there are so many young people from so many countries debating such an important issue we believe we have something very special. We would love you to get involved.

Please email me, David Crane, with your words or pledges of support. We need to support young people to get involved in these crucial issues and your involvement could be instrumental in making that happen.

Please email me now.

Thank you.