“You are not the future, you are the present. We are evolving and we must move forward, you must do it for your future and that of your children. I wish you to make a noise, make yourself heard! ”.
Like this Pope francesco during the private meeting held in the Sala Clementina with a delegation of fifty young people from Earth Day, the representatives of Italy at the Cop Giovani in Milan and the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani. “We are at the beginning of Youth4Climate, the initiative that will see hundreds of young people from all over the world come together in Milan to study the future of the planet and the climate – said the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, on the sidelines of the meeting in the Vatican -. And today, the weekend before, we meet with the Pope to bless some of these young people. May it be a good omen and above all that it bears the testimony of the awareness that the Encyclical Laudato Si ‘has given us, in the works that we will do starting this coming week. Good job everyone”.
The young people of “Fridays for future” return to the streets to defend the planet
by Alessandra Paolini
It will be there September 28 that the ‘Youth4Climate’ will open in Milan: two young people from each of the 197 member countries of the UNFFCC (the United Nations Convention on Climate Change) will be involved in working groups and debates, a preparatory stage for COP 26 in Glasgow, in where young people will be the protagonists and will have the opportunity to officially contribute to the United Nations climate negotiations.
Earth Day Italia, since the COP Giovani was announced, has sensitized public opinion and institutions to give importance to this event which restores an intergenerational perspective to the theme of climate change. “In about 30 years, 25 climate conferences have not been able to stop the constant increase in the atmosphere of climate-alternating gases with consequences that now risk becoming irreversible. Young people will pay the greatest price and listening to them is no longer just a question. of institutional correctness but rather of historical justice “, he declared Pierluigi Sassi, president of Earth Day Italia, who explains: “in agreement with the Minister of Ecological Transition, Roberto Cingolani, who chairs the Pre Cop in Milan, we wanted to ask for a special blessing from Pope Francis who six years ago promulgated the encyclical letter Laudato yes, trying, like the young people of COP, to urge the United Nations to seek the common good rather than to defend predatory economic systems based on a throwaway culture “.
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