世界学生環境サミットin京都

The Group of Eight summit conference will be held in Toyako, Hokkaido in July of 2008. The World Student Environmental Summit in Kyoto will take place for three days from June 20 in advance of the G8 summit. During the summit, university students from eleven different countries will unite in the ecologically pioneering city of Kyoto, to discuss “Sustainable Development” from the standpoints of global citizens. There will be three subcommittees held in this summit; the first subcommittee will debate on new technology for mitigation of climate change. The second subcommittee will discuss worldwide action plans to achieve “Sustainable Development”. In the third subcommittee, foreign students who have come to study in Kyoto from all across the globe will discuss environmental issues and enhance their understandings. With the cooperation of the Japanese ministry, the outcome of these three subcommittees will be presented to the Toyako summit as a Student Proposal. Our ultimate goal at this summit is for us students, who are responsible for the next generation, “to propose and deepen our understanding for a better world, thus individually take initiatives to actually achieve it”.