ASIA PACIFIC WED CELEBRATION 2008, ASIS PACIFIC REGION

Background: Kick The Habit, Towards a Low Carbon Economy.
World Environment Day (WED), commemorated each year on 5 June, is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations stimulates worldwide awareness of the environment and enhances political attention and action. WED was established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.

World Environment Day will highlight resources and initiatives that promote low carbon economies and life-styles in the following ways of changing our lives:

o improved energy efficiency
o alternative energy sources
o forest conservation
o sustainable and eco-friendly consumption

• Make One Voice on 5 June

In 2008, Youth from All Over Asia Pacific will unite to save the climate by showing how Asians can live low carbon lifestyles!

As UNEP adopted a long-term youth engagement strategy called TUNZA, in 2003. Since then, there have been five sub-regional youth environment networks in Asia and the Pacific to provide perspectives on environmental issues and promote youth activities in Central Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and South Pacific Asia. Youth in NEAYEN, SEAYEN and SAYEN, CAYEN will promote WED agenda to public in creative, fun, innovative ways. Youth groups in YENs will organize various campaigns in their cities under same slogan.

• How to join

Encourage Youth Organizations in the Sub-regional Networks to complete and fill up the registration forms in two stages:

· (1) Youth organizations fill up the registration form in Annex I of this document and send to the respective YEN Secretariat.

· (2) YEN Secretariats register the collective actions at the global World Environment Day database
http://www.unep.org/wed/2008/english/Around_the_World/index.asp

• Timetable for 2008 WED

Month Process
May Release information kit on WED
Call and finalize youth network and organization registration from every country/city
Select at least one contact person (NFPs) for each country/city
Develop WED slogan in local Asian language and finalize collective (national and sub-regional) action through online groups/forum/email/chat
June DO WED Action!!!! In every city/country participating
Press Release in the AP/ every country
July Collect pictures and multi-media clips to HyunJin at NEAYEN Secretariat
Evaluation
Sept Release edited Asia Pacific United multi-media clip on WED 2008
Release Booklet on Youth actions for WED 2008 (Electronic version)

• Roles and Contact Information

Responsibility

WED 2008 Steering Committee * 8 people (2-3 Secretariat, 2 Youth Advisors, 1 UNEP)* Organizing monthly online meeting
UNEP * Release information Kit on WED and registration format* Press Release
Secretariat * Contact point between Steering Committee and NFPs*Collect registration information and monitor youth action* Collect outcomes (pictures, articles, multi-media clip) of WED
Youth Advisor * Spread WED campaign in AP at regional and international level * Support booklet development
NFPs/youth * Organize youth actions! * Press release at national level* Collect pictures & Multi-media clip

Northeast Asia: Ms. Jeon HyunJin (jeon@unep.or.kr, Tunza NEAYEN)
Ms. Wang Feng Zhu (wangerlover2007@yahoo.com.cn, Youth Adviser)
South Asia: Mr. Gopal Jain (gopal.jain@ceeindia.org, TUNZA SAYEN)
Southeast Asia: Ms. Aileen Yap (aileenyap@nyaa.org, Tunza SEAYEN)
Mr. Jessie James Marcellones (marcellones_jl2003@yahoo.com, Youth Adviser)
Central Asia: Ms. Anna Kirilenko/Mr. Rustam Murzakhanov (annakir7@mail.ru, naraspashku@gmail.com, TUNZA CAYEN)
UNEP: Ms. Catherine Candano (catherine.candano@rrcap.unep.org, UNEP)

Registration Form for Youth Campaign World Environment Day 2008
Information

Tunza Youth Network (Tunza-YEN and Website URL)
Country City
Main Organization (Name)
Main Coordinator (Name)
(Telephone number)
(Email Address)
(Yahoo messenger ID)
Sub-coordinator (Name)
(Telephone Number)
(Email Address)
(Yahoo messenger ID)
World Environment Day Campaign 2008
Place/Date
Description of activity (not more than 1500 characters)
l If coordinators do not have yahoo messenger ID, please join in since we have a plan to hold online meetings through yahoo messengerl After the WED campaign, please send the pictures with description and multimedia clips with a short report to HyunJin (Korea) at jeonjeon@gmail.com.