World youth calls for more action and less talk

The largest-ever gathering of young climate activists urged world leaders on Thursday to do far more to combat climate change, Reuters reports. "We young people – 3 billion of the world population – are very concerned and frustrated that our governments are not doing enough to combat climate change ... we feel that radical and holistic measures are needed urgently from us all," they said in a statement following their conference in Daejeon in South Korea. "We now need more actions and less talking." Organized by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the some 700 delegates from all over the world met to discuss their concerns ahead of the decisive UN climate conference in December in Copenhagen. "We are the generation of tomorrow. The decisions that are made today will define our future and the world we have to live in. So we young people of the world urge governments to commit to a strong post-Kyoto climate regime. It is our lives we are talking about," UNEP quoted 23-year-old delegate Anne Walraven as saying. The statement urged governments to impose strict laws on polluters, develop independently-monitored carbon action plans and encourage wider use of green fuels