Children’s Climate Forum Copenhagen is the international climate forum for children and youth, the week before COP15.

180 children from 42 countries will discuss global climate change, and the goal is a resolution to be handed over to the COP15 president, Connie Hedegaard, on the last day of the forum. This final document expresses children and youth’s concerns and ideas on how the world and state leaders should deal with climate challenges and which role children should play in the solution of future climate challenges.

After the forum the delegates will work as climate ambassadors in their local environment, spreading knowledge on children and climate change and the possibility to act for a more sustainable world.

The project: International climate forum for children and youth resulting in recommendations for COP15 on solutions to the climate challenges and the role of children in a world affected by climate change. 

• Purpose: To give children and young people a voice in the climate debate
  
  
• Participants: 180 children aged 14-17 from 42 different countries. 2-5 children participates from each country.
  
  
• Hosts:  The City of Copenhagen and UNICEF Denmark
  
  
• Time and place: 28th of November till 4th of December at the Copenhagen City Hall.
  
  
• Communication: Young people worldwide can engage themselves in taking climate action through www.uniteforclimate.org, and students from Oerestad Highschool will document the forum in text and television, which will be sent live during the forum on www.uniteforclimate.org.
  
  
• Copenhagen as host city: During the forum the children will meet the citizens of Copenhagen on the streets, on different climate locations they will visit, and through Copenhagen host schools where they will interact with Danish pupils.