Youths from 110 countries inspire climate action

The biggest-ever youth conference on climate change began Monday, as 800 young environmental activists from 110 countries gathered in the central South Korean city of Daejeon.The week-long conference is aimed at giving young people a chance to demand action on global warming ahead of the pivotal UN climate change conference in Copenhagen in December.The youth climate conference "is a gathering of the generation that will inherit the outcome of the decisions taken in December and beyond,” said Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) which is organizing the event.The 800 participants aged between 10 and 24 years were chosen from thousands of applicants due to their outstanding green projects, the UN body said.Among these are a rap video by two Canadian teenagers on how people can reduce their environmental footprint, a drive to distribute 500 low-energy light bulbs in Nepal, a car pooling initiative in Samoa, a recycling project in Sierra Leone and a river clean-up in Russia.