News2008

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 * News Briefs 2008 **

Read an overview of youth engagement at the IUCN's World Conservation Congress in Barcelona, Spain by Cathrine Mutambirwa. These were the youth-related events offered at the Congress:
 * October 2008**



During the public Forum of the World Conservations Congress, Earth Charter International organized a workshop on intergenerational partnership for sustainability (IPS) that promoted the IPS Resolution and produced "The IUCN Draft" of the Framework for Forming IPS. Read more and download Framework .[|Read day-by-day blogging from the Forum] by Dominic Stucker.

The following organizations were co-sponsors to the successful Resolution on IPS adopted by the IUCN's Members' Assembly:
 * UN-mandated University for Peace, Costa Rica
 * Center for Environmental Legal Studies, Pace University, United States
 * International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), Canada

[|Download RES 4.098.] [|Read the story about how the Resolution was adopted.]

**May - September 2008** A successful "Buddy Experiment," coordinated by Earth Charter International and HECT Consultancy, paired 80 youth from around the world with 80 IUCN Commission on Education and Communication (CEC) members for a period of 5 months leading up to the World Conservation Congress. Thanks to partner youth networks for making this possible. Read more and download the full report.

**May 2008** A successful workshop was held at the 16th meeting of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in New York City, USA. The workshop produced "The CSD-16 Draft" of the Framework for Forming IPS. Read more and download Framework. Also, read this [|account] from one of the workshop participants, Maria-Luiza Popescu.

**November 2007** The launch workshop of the campaign for Intergenerational Partnership for Sustainability was held at the 4th International Conference on Environmental Education in Ahmedabad, India. 50 participants collaboratively wrote "The Ahmedabad Draft" of the Framework. Read more and download Framework in one of 7 languages.