7 December : first day of the conference! The Bella Center has opened his doors and will be swallowing 30 000 delegates a day from all over the world during the next two weeks! It’s huge and massive, but Young Friends of the Earth is here and we are ready to rock! We’re all together again – the thirthy of us – from all the corners of Europe, with the policy team, the action group and the media people ready to tell you what is happening both inside the Bella Center (the place where the official summit is taking place) and at the Klimaforum. The Klimaforum is the alternative conference, the ‘conference of the people’, where you don’t have to show your accreditation card to get in. An amazing forum where every single person is welcome: indigenous people, environmental organisations, labour unions, human rights organisations, youth, women organisations… It’s going to be a sparkling forum with lectures, concerts, film-evenings, daily briefings about what is happening in the Bella Center, and many many more. Tonight is the official opening with Naomi Klein and Nnimmo Bassey, the chair of Friends of the Earth International speaking! This is the place where it is possible to shout out loudly what is so difficult to convince delegates about in the conference: that we want an agreement that is socially, politically, ecologically and economically just and compliant with human rights! We’ll call for Climate Justice – a reversal of the historical responsibility for human induced climate change through massive emissions reductions in the Global North, reparation of the climate debt and equitable sharing of the Earth’s resources in recognition of all peoples’ and future generations’ right to a dignified life within ecological limits! You’ll read and watch it all here!