Christ Wright is the Co-Founder and Director of Climate Tracker, an aptly-named organization of young reporters who have tracked UN climate negotiations since 2015. Members of Climate Tracker have collectively published more than 6,000 articles in the national media of over 114 countries in more than 24 languages. Climate Tracker also providesother activities and services…
The Malaysian Youth Delegation’s (MYD) Local Climate Conference 2018 has really been an eye opener for me. On the first day, I remembered that we came in anxiously as delegates, not knowing what to expect. But at the end of Day 2, we left with a great amount of knowledge, all pumped up to make…
Being YOUNG! A lot of people don’t expect you to care about your community. They don’t think you’ll take the time to make it better, figuring that you’re too busy with school, friends, whatever. In fact, only one in five youth feel valued by adults, and only one in four think that adults see them as a…
The story begins here… One day, I received a message from my friend, Christabel. She told me that she will be coming to KL to participate in a conference. It was a youth climate conference organized by the Malaysian Youth Delegation. Her message caught my interest. After looking into the conference, I decided to sign…
On 11th November 2018, the Special Envoy of Climate Change for Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Artur Lorkowski, visited Malaysia. The Special Envoy frequently travel and meet with government officials, business leaders, and civil society members of the various member countries of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Paris Agreement and discuss…
Malaysian Youth Delegation (MYD), Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore (ESI-NUS) and Singapore Youth Climate Action (SYCA) organized ASEAN Pre-Conference of Parties (Pre-COP) Capacity Building Workshop 2018 in Malaysia and Singapore. The ASEAN Pre-COP Session in Malaysia was hosted by MYD in Oasis Village, Ara Damansara follow by the session in Singapore, hosted by…
On the 15th and 16th November 2018, two members of the Malaysian Youth Delegation (MYD), Liyana Yamin and Syaqil Suhaimi, were invited to a Pre-COP24 Capacity Building session by the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC). Other personnel involved included those from the Ministry of Water, Land and Natural Resources (KATS),…
Last weekend, youth from all around Malaysia gathered for the Youth Climate Conference 2018 at Oasis Village, Kuala Lumpur. It was also my first time participating in the conference related to climate change. The conference was jam-packed with different speakers who were continuing the important conversation of climate change realities and how can we could…
First conference, fantastic conference! Never have I ever felt so understood for immersing myself with like-minded people during this learning journey. It was a great pleasure to be granted a scholarship from MYD itself for joining this conference and I truly appreciated it. This conference focuses on climate change in various aspects such as sustainable…
The title of the conference ‘MYDXLCOY’ doesn’t say it all. An acquaintance said the title seemed a little too hippie, and doesn’t give any inclination on its identity to regular people who have not been exposed to MYD or LCOY. Yet, knowing the Malaysian Youth Delegation and the people behind it gave me no qualms…