CBD COP New Issue of Square Brackets

You can find attached the new issue of Square Brackets published on the
occasion of the Nagoya meet. It is also posted on the CBD secretariat
web site:
http://www.cbd.int/ngo/square-brackets/square-brackets-2010-10-en.pdf
Kind regards
Philip Otieno

Civil Society Organizations’ Statement to Plenary 22 October 2010

Today the Civil Society Organisations in Nagoya where the Tenth Conference of Parties to the Convention on Biodiversity is taking place are set to make a statement in the plenary .You can read their statement in the link below attachment below. http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/6459622/1719126007/name/CSO%20Statement%20to%20COP10%2022%20October%202010%2Epdf.



Thanks
Philip

Report of the 2nd GYG Congress

The report of the 2nd Global Young Greens Congress by Kenya Young Greens is available for your perusal.
The report is prepared by Ms Rose Wachuka who is also the Strategic Advisor on Programs and Partner Relations at Kenya Young Greens and is by no means the official congress report.

The report can be accessed at

http://kenyayounggreensonline.googlegroups.com/web/2nd+GYG+Congress+-+Kenya+Young+Greens+Report+by+Rose+Wachuka.pdf?gda=wNRdznUAAADvVA6RE28WD1YTvVPkmZ-SQrmFXL8cyYTVSQyWkPX2nPyE-1BhHsDBNO7cQjvO7DLUHZ7c7IaNrxpcU0AlnFtdlhcSRX1TIXxjWdygCzx8wlwqT9objPsieKQmJ7X8MS4ytiJ-HdGYYcPi_09pl8N7uUhluvi6pBdfyiSLBCnA8g

A key highlight in the report is the Election of Ms Ann Bulimu, the Chairperson of Kenya Young Greens into the Global Young Greens Steering Committee.

ONLINE MEMBERSHIP REGISTRATION

Inline with the need to keep up with changing technologies and for better ease of access for new members of the organisation, Kenya Young Greens has developed an online registration form that in essence takes under 6 minutes to complete.

With this process, Kenya Young Greens will now be able to keep an up to date register which will best enable us to keep both new and existing members well informed of the new developments at the organisation.

So go ahead and fill the form:

https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dE91MEF6VHRsZno1bmNCUE5sUU1QWmc6MQ

Kenya Young Greens on Facebook and Twitter

Finally, after an awesome training on utilising social networks to get ahead, we have gone right ahead an put that knowledge to some good use.
Now you can all get to be a friend of Kenya Young Greens on Facebook or follow us on twitter for the latest updates and news. That by no means sets in motion a non blogging element. We still are going to keep you locked and loaded from right here.

Twitter: kenyayounggreen
Facebook: kenya young greens kyg

SO let the fun begin and please join us.

Climate Change Convention Gets a new Executive Secretary

Christiana Figueres has been appointed to replace Yvo De Boer as Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC.

Below is her Bio Data

With a long and distinguished career in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Ms. Figueres has been a member of the Costa Rican negotiating team since 1995. She represented Latin America and the Caribbean on the Executive Board of the Clean Development Mechanism in 2007, and was then elected Vice President of the Bureau 2008-2009. One of the most skilled mediators of the Convention, she is frequently asked to chair controversial negotiations. She conceived the new financial instrument “programmatic CDM” with four groundbreaking publications that have marked global thinking on this novel concept.

She initiated her life of public service as Minister Counselor at the Embassy of Costa Rica in Bonn, Germany in 1982. She served as Director of International Cooperation in the Ministry of Planning in Costa Rica, and was then named Chief of Staff to the Minister of Agriculture. Moving to the USA, she was Director of Renewable Energy in the Americas (REIA) and in 1995 founded the Center for Sustainable Development of the Americas (CSDA) which she directed for eight years. She designed and helped to establish national climate change programs in Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Argentina, Ecuador, Honduras, El Salvador and the Dominican Republic, becoming a prime promoter of Latin America’s active participation in the Climate Change Convention. In 2001 she received the Hero for the Planet Award by the National Geographic Magazine.

Ms. Figueres has made important contributions to the analytic literature on the design of the climate regime, is one of the most widely published authors on the topic, and a frequent public speaker. She has a Masters Degree in Anthropology from the London School of Economics, and a certificate in Organizational Development from Georgetown University. She speaks Spanish, English and German.

Source: http://figueresonline.com/

You can read more on her nomination on Reuters: http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-48558320100517

Posted By: Philip Otieno, Head of Progammes, KYG