News2009

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 * News Briefs 2009 **

**December 2009** In the lead up to the climate negotiations in Copenhagen, Dominic Stucker was invited to be Co-Lead Facilitator for the Children's Climate Forum. Organized by UNICEF and the City of Copenhagen, the event brought together 165 young people aged 14-17 years old from 44 countries for a week-long series of workshops and learning opportunities in and around City Hall. Read Dominic's short report.

**December 2009** The IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) reported on 2009 activities promoting intergenerational partnership within and through the Commission.

View the slide set outlining all 2009 CEC activities:



Furthermore, view the CEC-WCPA video presented to the Council on IUCN's "One Program." Intergenerational partnership is well-positioned as a cross-cutting theme to help integrate the three different parts of the IUCN family - Commissions, Secretariat, and Members - in meaningful ways

**November 2009** Dominic Stucker was invited to observe the IUCN Council Meeting as a youth representative. He attended 3 days of the meeting in Gland, Switzerland, from 21-23 November. Successes include:
 * the Council approved a motion on appointing a **young Councilor**
 * all 6 **Commission Chairs** are committed to **greater youth engagement**
 * Dominic was invited and approved by the Council to join the **Climate Change Task Force**
 * Council discussed inviting a **young person** to be on the **Congress Preparatory Committee** for South Korea in 2012

Here are his day-by-day reports:



**November 2009** Svetlana Kopylova, Emily Loose, and Marie-Eve Marcha facilitated a workshop at the WILD9 Conference held from 6-13 November in Mexico. Thirty five young conservation professionals attended the event which helped solidify a partnership between the WCPA Young Professionals Group, the WILD Foundation, and the Commission on Environmental Law to establish a Young Conservationists Network. Individuals were recruited to this Network and to the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas. The Network plans to create a web platform for further communication and collaboration. Furthermore, a presentation on young professionals was made in the conference plenary (video available soon) and a Resolution on Young Professionals was submitted and adopted. Read Svetlana's brief report here:



**September 2009** Dominic Stucker wrote an article on intergenerational partnership for sustainability for the Soka Gakkai International Quarterly magazine.

**August 2009** The Commission on Environmental Law's Young Professionals Group, led by Bruno Monteferri, launched their own blog. Learn more about their recent work.

**July 2009** The Joint CEC-WCPA Working Group on Intergenerational Partnership has published its initial Work Plan, kicking off activities through 2012. Download the Work Plan here and consider joining our Working Group.

**June 2009** In a significant vote of confidence, the IUCN Secretariat and Council have determined that our Resolution on IPS (RES 4.098) merits "high priority for implementation." A prioritization exercise by the Council's Program and Policy Committee (PPC) examined all 106 Resolutions from the Barcelona Congress and determined that our Resolution can be "readily incorporated into existing work plans and budgeting" and deserves further consideration:

"Resolution 98... could be implemented with little resource implications, resonates with gender equity issues, and flags the Union's commitment to youth and the next generation of environmentalists" (PPC, 2009). Download and read the Committee's full report here:



This kind of support may mean that our plans to form an IUCN-wide Task Force on IPS - and the necessary human and financial resources - will be easier to realize.

Furthermore, while supporting the next generation of sustainability leaders, our Resolution on IPS also builds on the IUCN's endorsement of the Earth Charter (RES 3.022) as "civil society's vision for a just, sustainable, and and peaceful world" and as an "ethical guide for IUCN policy."



**May 2009** Intergenerational partnership was embraced and integrated at the first ever joint IUCN Commission meeting held from 11-14 of May in San Pablo de Lagos, Ecuador between the Steering Committees of the World Commission on Protected Areas and the Commission on Education and Communication. As noted below, both Commissions had appointed Special Advisors on Intergenerational Partnership to their Steering Committees leading up to the meeting.

The purpose of the meeting was to create a joint Work Plan for the coming 4 years, leading up to the next World Conservation Congress. In addition to integrating an emphasis on youth throughout all proposed projects, a Joint Working Group on Intergenerational Partnership was formed:

//WCPA Members// Svetlana Kopylova, Russia Penny Figgis, Australia Marc Hockings, Australia Peter Valentine, Australia Nigel Dudley, United Kingdom

//CEC Members// Dominic Stucker, USA/Germany Cheryl Charles, USA Konai Helu Thaman, Tonga/Fiji Frits Hesselink, Netherlands (Advisor)

The Working Group is presently focused on finalizing its own Work Plan, which will be published here, and will then reach out to partner organizations to help support its activities. Two key goals include increasing the percentage of young members on the WCPA and CEC (35 years of age and under), as well as the meaningful engagement, across generations, of those new members. Here is the full meeting report:



**April 2009** __Young People, Education, and Sustainable Development: Principles, Perspectives, and Praxis__, edited by Peter Blaze Corcoran and Philip Osano, was published by Wageningen Academic Publishers, The Netherlands. A great example of intergenerational partnership for sustainability, both the book's editors and contributors come from different generations and geographies, and the Earth Charter is featured throughout.

Among the 68 contributors from 25 countries are Wangaari Maathai, James Gustave Speth, David Orr, Awaraham Soetendorp, Konai Helu Thaman, and Moacir Gadotti, in addition to youth from the Earth Charter Initiative: Melanie Ashton, Bremley Lyngdoh, Dumisani Nyoni, Nicole Jiron Beirute, Hind Ottmani, Namir Nava, Hamza Ali Alamoosh, Brandon Hollingshead, and Dominic Stucker. Director General of the IUCN, Julia Marton Lefevre, reviews the book:

"The development of youth leadership has been a central concern of my professional work. Young people have a lot to offer to sustainable development and should participate in planning for our planet's future. This rich collection of theoretical and practical approaches captures the growing response of young people to this challenge. I am particularly pleased with the attention paid to the role of often-underrepresented regions of the world, to the role of women, and to the Earth Charter in creating a peaceful and sustainable future."[| Read more and order the book.]

**March 2009** IUCN's Commission on Education and Communication (CEC), inspired by the IUCN Resolution on IPS mentioned below, has appointed Dominic Stucker to their Steering Committee as Special Advisor on Intergenerational Partnership. If you are a university student or young professional interested in being invited to the CEC, please send your CV or resume to Dominic at dominic.stucker@gmail.com

Likewise inspired by the Resolution and the CEC, the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) has appointed Svetlana Kopylova to their Steering Committee as Vice Chair on Intergenerational Partnership.

**February 2009** The IUCN Council met. President, Ashok Koshla, and Director General, Julia Marton-Lefevre, have decided to appoint a youth representative to the Council. The search is on now. If you are interested in being nominated, please send your CV or resume to Dominic at dominic.stucker@gmail.co