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The day started with the usual YOUNGO meeting, and afterwards some action. A UKYCC, Young Friends of The Earth and Bund Jugend joint project: Push Europe (http://pusheurope.eu/), have planned an action, where all youth participated including the IFMSA.   We all lined up in front of the European meeting with a CV, and asked for […]

Today is another very busy day for the IFMSA here in Bonn. As usual there is the YOUNGO meeting at 8.30, where we meet other youth organizations and have very interesting discussion on various issues that concerns the youth.   Afterwards we meet with the EU negotiator on article 6 to discuss implementation of article […]

The second week is completely full while the negotiators from the parties are trying to make up the time they lost for the first week, there are a lot of very interesting things relevant to us that have happened. We are still working hard on two very important issues; Article 6 and health as a […]

Hello Climate Fans! With Oh-So-Much going on in Bonn, we thought we’d take a moment to look over the anatomy and physiology of the UNFCCC (the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change). The first thing you need to know – we’re negotiating two different deals at once! 1.   The CMP: Where we’re discussing the Kyoto […]

After arriving in Bonn, I went to a “Power Shift” workshop with Charlotte today. The main organizer of the event is UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC), and the participants are mainly from various youth organization in Sweden, Germany, and Belgium. Power Shift is actually a capacity building event that brings together young people and youth […]

As usual, our day started with Youngo meeting in the morning, where main discussion have been running about the Youth sideevent at same evening and objectives and messages for a Youngo campaign coming up for next week. Afterwards Sebastian, Charlotte and me, together with Jean Paul, got the chance to attend the informal meeting of […]

I arrived at the UNFCCC meeting in Bonn at Wednesday morning, after a long train ride from Copenhagen. The negotiations officially started on Monday morning, but it doesn’t seem that too much has happened yet.   With four different tracks of negotiations going on simultaneous you would think I have missed a lot, but the […]

After a little introduction to the UNFCCC bodies, processes and background, we like to share some aspects and developments about the first days. We arrived on Monday afternoon, got registered and started to get an overview of the current situation by following as many events as possible. We got aware that the SBs had initiated […]

We have provided you with constant feedback on what work IFMSA has been doing at the World Health Assembly. And maybe not so much about what has been going on in the assembly itself. Following is a short presentation on what the assembly itself has been discussing and worlds health leaders has agreed on towards […]

On Thursday, one of the important meetings of the day was at the UNAIDS office with Dr Joy Backory, senior partnership advisor for UNAIDS and Dr Kate Thomson, Chief of Civil Society Partnership Team of UNAIDS. UNAIDS is a very important partner for IFMSA and the Committee on Reproductive Health including AIDS (SCORA). It is […]