In collaboration with London's Natural History Museum, we brought around 60 international students to London in July 2007 to attend the International Student Summit, 'Greening Cities'.
Climate change is a global issue and an important area of our work. The Summit gave us an opportunity to realise this: work with others on advancing the debate and enabling international students to attend.
The summit gave the international students the opportunity to hear from scientists, policy-makers and politicians (including Ken Livingstone) about different aspects of ‘greening’ cities. They also had the chance to share their views with 130 UK students. Students attended the event from Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Kuwait, Libya, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, Thailand, United Arab Emirates.
The 2007 summit built on the huge success of last year’s event, which focused on climate change as an urgent global problem. As a result of last year's summit, an accord publication was delivered by students to 10 Downing Street and to Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London. This year, the summit focused on creating a more sustainable urban environment. Each afternoon ended with a discussion where a panel of experts took questions from the delegates and online participants. Motions were proposed and votes cast. The results will be presented to the UK and local Governments.
Following the summit we ran a competition, asking the students to write a piece about their experiences at the event and their thoughts on climate change.
Here are the winning entries
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Joana, Portugal |
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Rebecca, Australia |
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António, Portugal |
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