11/9
WED
15:00-16:30
| Title | Role of Youth for a Low Carbon Tokyo Olympics |
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| Contents | Climate Youth Japan (CYJ) is an NGO founded in 2010 that includes the participation of young people involved in actions to combat climate change. Under the concepts of climate change, policies and youth actions, we use our voices on behalf of all young Japanese people to create a balanced and sustainable society by considering solutions for climate change problems. We organize workshops, campaign activities, and collaborative activities with young people from overseas, and send members to international conferences. This event will include presentations about our activities and a workshop about the role of youth and the challenges we face. Program: 1) Youthful power and its potential: Creativity and flexibility 2) Introduction of CYJ and other activities by Japanese youth -Annual activities -Aiming at a Low Carbon Tokyo Olympics -Organizing events 3) Workshop on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics -Role of Youth for Low Carbon Tokyo Olympics -Challenges faced 4) Our dreams |
| Organiser / Co-organiser |
Climate Youth Japan |
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| Session Summary |
The goal of this event was to gather ideas from delegates around the world how to make Tokyo Olympics more Sustainable. After organizing a 3-day innovation workshop Make it Real in Tokyo, Climate Youth Japan has been exchanging ideas with Tokyo Olympics Low Carbon Working Group. However, generation of ideas has been going on quite tightly, so we decided to organize an interactive workshop during COP22 to take advantage of the diversity of nationalities that have gathered in Marrakech. We started by briefly introducing what kind of activities Climate Youth Japan has been doing in Japan, mainly submission of environmental policy propositions to Japanese government on the topics of energy and Climate education, and interaction with businesses who aim to be more sustainable by organizing a coalition Climate Leaders Program (CLP). Then we moved to the activity. After asking participants what kind of topics are important, we divided them into three groups of interest: transportation, waste and energy. First, each group had to identify the core of the problem by asking themselves "why do they care about this issue". Second, they had to brainstorm the solutions to this problem. After choosing 1-3 most interesting ideas, they had to present these ideas to other participants. Lastly, we held feedback sessions on how these ideas could be improved. It was very hard to come up with tangible solutions in such a short period of time. Nevertheless, this workshop was very meaningful because we identified areas on which we need to focus when talking about sustainability and Olympics. It was also great that a participant from Brazil shared his experience with Rio Olympics. |
| Key Messages |
To submit an opinion paper, it will be useful to utilize what we argued at the workshop at the Japan Pavilion towards Working Group for low-carbonized Olympic in Tokyo in 2020. To motivate the dynamic against low-carbonized Olympic in Tokyo in 2020, we will hold workshops and inform various information about that. We will generate information what low-carbonized Olympic in Tokyo in 2020 is focused by abroad. We will continue the network between Climate Youth Japan and the Youths that participated in the workshop. |
| Materials | Presentation 1(PDF・632KB) Presentation 2(PDF・237KB) |
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| Reporters | Yuhei Tsukamoto, Climate Youth Japan |
