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UNEP FI 2009 Global Roundtable

Consider Us

During UNEP FI’s Global Roundtable and Cape Town Green Week, the Consider Us campaign begins in Africa - spearheading a global movement.

This campaign calls for children, between six and eighteen, to explain in 20 words why world leaders should consider them when signing their climate change treaties. These messages then appear, in real time, on a dedicated website, serving as a voice of the generation with the most to lose.

Parents, teachers and children are being encouraged to participate in the campaign so that these messages can be delivered to the world's financiers at the UNEP FI Global Roundtable, who can then deliver them to Copenhagen. See the invitation to schools.

Go to the official Consider Us site: www.considerus.org

In addition to the website, the Consider Us campaign includes:

A digital, TV, radio and print campaign. Hear the radio ad.
A chalking project, whereby messages are chalked up in communities.
Some of the messages from the website are strung up on washing lines at the Cape Town International Convention Centre for attending delegates to read and giant screens inside the CTICC show messages as they are posted live on the Consider Us website.
SA rock star, Arno Carstens adds his voice to the Consider Us groundswell. The singer-songwriter and former front man of Springbok Nude Girls, has offered a single off his soon-to-be-released album to be the soundtrack to the campaign. Titled ‘Emergency', he performs this haunting song together with the award-winning Tygerberg Children's Choir and Theo Crous at UNEP FI’s Global Roundtable Conference Dinner on Thursday 22 October. This performance officially launches the Consider Us global campaign.
Read more about how Arno Carstens is supporting Consider Us and listen to ‘Emergency’ – the soundtrack to the campaign at: www.arnocarstens.com
A selection of the most hard-hitting, heart-rending messages will be collated in a book and delivered to heads of state at the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen in December. These world leaders will be asked to sign the book, which will constitute, effectively, a signed oath to heed the demands of children all over the world. Once signed, the book will travel back to Cape Town, South Africa, where it will be buried in a time capsule at a UN heritage site, to be opened twenty years from now.