Sikander Sabeer: Green Economy Call Minutes

Monday, June 4, 2012

Green Economy Call Minutes - 03.06.2012, 3pm GMT

Participants: Brendan, Brittany, Frances,Lucie, Cassia, Sikander, Naomi, Emanu
Facilitator: Lena
Notetaker: Naomi

Agenda:- introduction
Brittany Laidlaw- Global Voices Australian Youth Delegate for Rio+20
Lena: Germany, German official youth delegate for Rio+20, German youth council
Brendan, Belgium, Rio+twenties, board member
Lucie, Switzerland, Swiss UN-Youth Delegate, Swiss Youth Council
Cassia: Brazil, ISF volunteer, involved with this Task Force.
Sikander Sabeer: Sri Lanka, Founder National Road to Rio+20 Campaign
Naomi: Japan, Environmental Partnership Council,
Frances: Australia, Global Voices Youth Delegate (leaving early)

- update 3rd informal negotiations May 29-June 2:

http://www.iisd.ca/uncsd/iinzod3/29may.html -newest Chair's text came out on May22 -WG1 (sec 1, 2, 3,4) WG2 (sec 5, 6) Changes on WG 5 & WG 6 observed
Summary will be released on Tuesday
Youth GE team focus on Education & Employment. education agreed ad ref. not best. so few ppl from MGCY attended the negotiation which was a challenge, so couldn't follow
There want be chair's text by next week.

Latest text on jobs:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yej-KguS0kd5OaOS8oc10rksBjU9uR8sprhbCBbeNzU/edit
Latest text on eduction
:https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AUzQkPyRVETZxdUnYPihoFg_UXmFWvv87q5nWW_X6sY/edit

Latest text on natural resources:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mnyYEXiOWLtROoL36LpyVxCah6i20uqK5DFNkxIxd6A/edit

- upcoming dates
Youth Blast:http://uncsdchildrenyouth.org/pages/youthblast.html
7-8 (Brazilian youth),
10-12 (international)
Register if you haven't! will make things easier ;- )We have (at least) 3 slots planned for sessions. Except for the core session, timing is more or less flexible and we can have more sessions if we want (but we want to keep a balance between quality and quantity)

June 11th 11.30 - 13.00: Core Session on GE (Plenary) - General introduction the GE TF of the MGCY

June 11th 2.30 - 4.00: GE and Employment (Room 11

, capacity: 100p) - Special focus on employment

June 12th 11.30 - 4.00: GE and Education (Room 11

, capacity: 100p ) - Special focus on education

- PrepCom negotiations: 13-15 June: you should attend.

Daily updates on new GoogleGroup will be made

Information for those not in Rio in order to let them participate

Need secondary pass.

-SD Dialogue 16-19

Facilitation team deciding on MGCY participation.

-UNCSD 20-22

2 intervention at the opening & ending.

don't know if we can attend or not.

Group passes? -will ask OPs

-other events

find out which events you want to go to, and some require pre-registration.

- who will be in Rio?Lena, now till 25thBrendan, 11th - 23rdLucie, 11th june - 11th JulyNaomi, 8-26thSikander (Hopefully) 10-26Emanuel (Hopefully) Alva 9th-28th June - division of tasks, next steps, dates for working meetingsWe need people for the following tasks:- minimum 2 persons for each Youth Blast interventions and more people planing these sessions:

June 11th 11.30 - 13.00 (core session):

Lena, Alva

June 11th 2.30 - 4.00 (employment):

Shoya (naomi) + Sikander (Hopefully)

June 12th 11.30 - 13.00 (education): Brendan + Lucie

June

12th 2.30 - 4.00 (natural resources): Alva

- 2 people to report back on the general evolution of negotiations: [Lucie
- 2 people responsible for welcoming/briefing newcommers
- 2 people to lead daily working group on education: [Lucie] if some interested in taking the lead please contact me (lucie.rosset@youthrep.ch) or Lena (lmm.wdst@yahoo.com)
- 2 people to lead daily working group on employment: Sikander (if attending)
- 2 people to lead daily working group on natural resources: Alva
- 2 people responsible for (social) media/outreach: Brendan- 1 person update calendar & schedules: Naomi

- some practical matter for Rio- Meeting of the GETF to be programmed on the 10th & 11th in the evening: Lena
   -Map of events:https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=214362249671181517044.0004c1128537676fe349d&msa=0
- Photo book of negotiators: http://www.stakeholderforum.org/fileadmin/files/Photobook_Rio+20web.pdf
-Sim card:    - Lenas brasilian number: (021) 8234 8445, you need to take off the (021) if you also have an Rio de Janeiro number
-conference handbook:http://www.uncsd2012.org/rio20/content/documents/607Manual%20Operativo%20-%20Ingles_%2031-05_print.pdf

- others

Check the National Road to Rio+20 Campaign Synthesis Report, What we are doing in Sri Lanka for Rio+20http://www.unep.org/roap/Portals/96/SLK_SynthesisReport_April2012.pdfhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBP9061qSSo&feature=share

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About Me

Sikander Sabeer is a product of Isipathana College and holding a first class with distinction Bachelors of Science (BSc) degree on Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Microbiology from Spectrum Institute of Science and Technology (Sri Lanka), an outreach campus of University of Mysore (India). Presently reading for his Masters of Science (MSc) on Business Management at National School of Business Management (Sri Lanka), an outreach post-graduate institute of University of Dublin (Ireland).

Sikanders’ development work can be categorized into three avenues, namely community service and community development; youth empowerment and professional development; climate change and sustainable development. Meanwhile his development work is two phased, firstly action oriented, secondly strategic and advocacy. In the action oriented phase, he gets in to the field and implements his ideas. He works very closely with multi-stakeholders such as children, school students, youth, corporates & business firms, UN agencies, non-governmental and government organizations on diversified projects at different levels and on different capacities. With his strong grass-root level initiatives and experience, he invests equal time on advocacy, mentorship and youth policy framework, which is a unique, and a strategic bottom up approach.

Sikanders’ voluntary action oriented initiatives and his strategic thinking has given him numerous opportunities to be a guest speaker and youth facilitator; to share his experiences, best practices to motivate and inspire youth at number of National and International youth conferences. He has represented his country and fellow youth (1/4th of Sri Lankan population) at high profile youth conferences and high level UN summits/conferences, at some of the UN meetings I have served as an ‘Official Youth Delegate’ of the National Delegation team headed by HE president. Half of the world’s population is made up of young people and as a youth representative and a major stakeholder he had made several interventions on behalf of Global Youth and Sri Lankan youth at some of the UN conferences.

He has held several key positions in organizing several national and international events/programmes and he is one of the co-creators of the YOUTH is the word –Guinness World Record, where 1500 Sri Lankan youth stood to gather to form the largest human mosaic in the world.

His local, national and international initiatives on youth led community development, Climate Change; youth empowerment and youth advocacy led him to earn the most prestigious “Commonwealth Youth Awards (CYA)” for Excellence in Development Work (2012), The CYA’s celebrate and recognize extraordinary young people among one billion audiences from 54 member states of Commonwealth who are making a positive difference to the lives of others through development initiatives ranging from poverty alleviation to education and protection of the environment. This is awarded by Commonwealth Secretariat (CYP) headed by HM Queen Elizabeth II. He earned the "Global Changemaker" title of British Council Youth Empowerment Programme on 2010 for outstanding contribution for Voluntary Activities. He serves as a Youth Ambassadorial role for climate change and serves as a Youth Facilitator for climate sustainability under British Council International Climate Champion program. Apart from these major recognitions his team earned U.S. Department of States Federal Assistant Award Grant for “Green the Home” project and Global Changemakers Community Action Project (CAP) and Regional Action Project (RAP) grants for Youth Empowerment Initiatives.

Presently Sikander is serving as an Assistant Manager for Business Development and Project Officer for recycling solutions for Neptune Recyclers (Neptune Papers [Pvt.] Ltd) in Sri Lanka, a member of multinational corporate Expolanka Holdings PLC. He works very closely with multi- stakeholders, especially with school students, Industries and Corporates on recycling solutions which create an additional income from the trash while minimizing the environmental pollution.

"Do as much as voluntary activities, because volunteers Inspire in Action, they make a real change in their community, they talk less and work a lot, but never expect any personal benefits from their action, Indeed one day they will earn the rewards, that’s confirmed; Install this in your mind “I will do the best I can”

-Sikander Sabeer-