CONSIDER US, A GLOBAL UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME FINANCE INITIATIVE (UNEP FI) CAMPAIGN, GIVES CHILDREN A VOICE ON CLIMATE CHANGE.
Consider Us, a global United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) Campaign, aims to engage capital markets with their most important long term stakeholders - children.
The campaign has grown exponentially since its launch during October 2009 during UNEP FIÕs annual Roundtable held in Cape Town South Africa where it was enthusiastically received by delegates.
Consider Us is empowering children around the world to send messages of 20 words or less to the leaders of capital markets and governments to consider them.
Messages are being collected in schools and via www.considerus.org. These messages are being published as books in countries that they are gathered. They are then presented to high-ranking government and financial leaders at strategically selected prestigious events and conferences.
The books will then, along with regional air and water samples, be encased in time capsules at purpose-built monuments. The time capsules will be retrieved in 20 years after burial to determine whether or not current financial leaders did in fact consider todayÕs children.
The first book of its kind, after being presented to high-ranking UN officials at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in 2009, will make its way back to cape cape where is will be burried.
Says UNEP FI Head of Unit Paul Clements-Hunt, Òthe Campaign is a brilliant idea. It is simple and speaks to the heart of UNEP FI. We a fully behind it and need your help to make it truly global. In the words of the campaign anthem, Òthis is an emergencyÓ. We need your help to give children a voice. After all, they have the most to lose.Ó
See the Campaign videos at the facebook fan page, Consider Us.
Stills to follow.
For more information and to offer your support, please contact Consider Us at info@considerus.org.
See www.considerus.org