November 10-12, 2011
Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
Group photo of the 2009 Young Leaders' Summit participants.
Participants engaging in an interactive Summit activity.
There is a need to build capacity among young leaders who can speak on climate change in the North at home, nationally and internationally. Young northern residents have a major stake in climate change mitigation. There is already significant mobilization of youth at the international level on climate change. However, such dialogue on climate change policy barely exists in the North, despite northerners being among the largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases and living in a region that will be heavily impacted by climate change. There is an immediate need to strengthen the network of young leaders in the North concerned with climate change, and to synchronize this network with national and global movements against climate change.
The growing youth climate movement in southern Canada has found effective ways to engage in climate change policy. However, the model for the southern youth climate movement is built on assumptions that don't hold true in northern Canada; it relies on youth being in or having access to large population centers, having access to decision-makers, and being able to convene in large numbers for conferences and collaborative efforts.
The goal of the 2009 Summit was to arm youth with skills to promote local engagement on climate change through the lens of story-telling, which is an integral part of traditional northern cultures. Workshops focused on media training, meeting facilitation and consensus-based decision making, information communication technologies and social media, writing (e.g. position statements, policy documents, letters, opinion-editorials, etc.), public speaking and presentations, and grassroots organizing. Participants had the opportunity to practice some of the new digital media skills that they had learned. They built on the declarations made by participants of the 2009 Summit, and brought them to life through film and photography.
Read a CBC article about the 2011 Summit here.
Thank you to all the participants, presenters, guests, volunteers and sponsors who helped make the summit a great success.
The growing youth climate movement in southern Canada has found effective ways to engage in climate change policy. However, the model for the southern youth climate movement is built on assumptions that don't hold true in northern Canada; it relies on youth being in or having access to large population centers, having access to decision-makers, and being able to convene in large numbers for conferences and collaborative efforts.
The goal of the 2009 Summit was to arm youth with skills to promote local engagement on climate change through the lens of story-telling, which is an integral part of traditional northern cultures. Workshops focused on media training, meeting facilitation and consensus-based decision making, information communication technologies and social media, writing (e.g. position statements, policy documents, letters, opinion-editorials, etc.), public speaking and presentations, and grassroots organizing. Participants had the opportunity to practice some of the new digital media skills that they had learned. They built on the declarations made by participants of the 2009 Summit, and brought them to life through film and photography.
Read a CBC article about the 2011 Summit here.
Thank you to all the participants, presenters, guests, volunteers and sponsors who helped make the summit a great success.
Participants practicing their interview skills.
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Participants playing traditional handgames.
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