It all started on 7 September 2009, the day we met for the first time as the Global Change Class at the MS Plataform.31 different people from different backgrounds, origins from five African countries: Uganda where I come from,Tanzania,Kenya,Zambia and Zimbabwe plus Denmark hoping to be together for then next four months but at least I knew we shared one thing that IS the fact that we are advocating for CLIMATE JUSTICE CLASS…………………………………………………….
The first week first week was so exiting with all the introductions made our teachers seemed so exited that they did not waste any time but started to teach us so many things! The most noticeable for me was the new media and social change are interlinked and of course what I have been introduced to BLOGGING.
Is not as easy as I thought! And then I discovered I had a mentor like everyone else in class. To me, my dear Mentor Laura is an inspiration to me. I hope not to let her down, nor my trainers Rune, Bjorn and Malte.
The course has been characterized by very inspirational lectures. This allows me to share experiences with Skype (lectured by Yonkin Backmark from Sweden that facilitated me to make an informed and quick decisions with the whole the class). Yonkin gave us the insight of the climate debt issue and the various keep players in the COP15 summit and how we could play a role to effect the change that we want.
The Climate Debt or the Ecological Debt lecture, by Patrick Bond, is based on the fact that for so many years the highly industrialized countries have for a long time emitted high levels of carbon dioxide an this has had an effect on the atmosphere causing global warming. Thus, climate change is causing a lot of suffering to so many people in a lot of parts of the world like drought, floods famine and as result high death rates. The irony is that the causers of this phenomenon are not actually getting the negative effects they’re causing, and they have the capacity to adopt measures make things better, unlike developing countries. It is therefore on this bases that the high industrialized countries have got to pay for a climate debt.
Therefore, one of our main goals during the campaign that we shall be conducting in December this year is to make clear that these nations should play their part. And that is also our main focus in what it comes to the European Union, specifically Denmark being the host of the COP15. We believe they should be exemplary and play the leading role to have a good deal.
As a result of the various lectures we have had we are continuously working on our campaign and how to make it a success. We are already engaged in various climate activities within similar ambitions as we have for the tcktcktck campaign happening in many parts of the world. Here in Denmark, the action has been very colorful with MR.GREEN taking the lead