Just when we need it, when things are starting to teeter, when the un blues is hitting some of the team, we get another small victory.
After an intense 12 hours of campaining, here in Cancun and at home in the UK, it has been announced that our minister Chris Huhne will remain here at COP 16 and not return to the UK to vote on tuition fees tomorrow.
The UK Youth Climate Coalition had a huge part to play in this, check out what they had to say about it.
‘Huhne’ became a trending topic on Twitter late this afternoon as thousands of people asked him to stay in Cancun. The twitter-storm was initiated by the UK Youth Climate Coalition, and subsequently Nick Clegg made a decision to let the energy minister stay.
Meanwhile, hundreds of young people across the UK phoned Downing Street asking David Cameron and Nick Clegg to let Chris Huhne stay in Mexico for the ministerial segment of the UN climate talks. The Downing Street switchboard was overloaded for much of the afternoon.
“By leaving the climate talks to vote for fees increases, Chris Huhne would have been dismissing our generation twice over,” said Amy Mount, Coalition Coordinator for the UK Youth Climate Coalition.
“The UK youth have spoken, and I’m glad that Chris Huhne listened. We want the climate change minister to stay in Cancun to do his job of negotiating a safer, cleaner, fairer future for our generation,” said Neva Frecheville, a member of the UK Youth Delegation to Cancun.
And to top it all off they even whipped togathe this great little video to say thanks.
Creative, funny, amazing. Chris is staying and we are smiling.
Once again we have proved that we CAN change things here
Now it’s time for us, and Chris, to get back to the real issue in hand and create some change there.
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