Youth Summit 2015

I am convinced that it is the youth of the world who can bring about change.(Rajendra Pachauri)

During our Youth Summit, we will be developing a proposal for solutions to ensure our survival and want to send the following message to the world?s leaders, who will be meeting a few days later at the G7-Summit and Bilderberg Conference, both of which are just 40 miles away from our Youth Summit: 'Those of us alive today, both the older generation in Elmau and Telfs and the younger of us in Tutzing, represent the first and the last generations capable of solving the climate crisis. Never before has a generation faced such a major challenge. Together we can make the difference! Let's tackle together that historical challenge by achieving sustainability together with freedom and human rights! Let?s start implementing the solutions for our survival!

"Since 25 years you know about the coming climatic disaster. There is general agreement that global  warming exists (97% of the climate scientist means absolute certainty). You are negotiating about the climate since 1992, so much longer as we are old. You promised us that the average temperature will not rise by more than 2?. We children and youth are contributing for half our lifetime to find a solution and planted 13 billion trees. In those years we followed attentively what you were doing."

However, if you continue with short-term decisions and reckless actions against us, we young people of the world will no longer be able to follow you we will have to take action ourselves to ensure our survival.

Many of the older generation believed they had a choice between either 'climate protection' or 'economic growth'. For us children and youth there is no choice: It's a question of our survival. We 3 billion children and youth are the 'next generation' according to 1992 Earth Summit's definition of sustainability. We are already here, alive and kicking. Since 1992, global warming has been advancing unabated and the natural and social living conditions of us children and youth will be thrown into chaos. Over the next 30 years we will have to face up to - just to mention one of the threats to us - the reality of 200 million climate refugees. That's 200 million people who will lose their homes and their countries will lose their citizens. Today, Europe and the U.S. are already overwhelmed with only a tiny fraction of these numbers of refugees, reacting with walls and fences. Walls and fences are no solutions.

Youth Summit 2015, 20-25 May in Tutzing Castle	Only 40 miles away from the G7 Summit in Elmau Hotel on 7-8 June	In between the Bilderberg conference in Interalpen Hotel, Telfs in Tirol

All speeches, discussions, and outcomes will be publicly available and it will be possible to track and access them online. The conference will be conducted in English with translations into German. While a number of the speakers will be in Tutzing personally, many experts will speak to us via video and engage in discussions via Skype. We 100 young people come from all corners of the world and will be sharing the results of the Youth Summit with our networks and friends. We don't think nationally but understand that as one, we, the youth of the world, have to fight for our survival.

· The target group of the Youth Summit are young people between 15 and 25 years from all over the world, who are engaged in the topic of climate crisis or related topics.

· We ask every interested person to send us a short letter of motivation and a CV. We will check every application carefully and decide whether the applicant fulfills the participation requirements

· If this is the case, we send a confirmation email telling the applicant that we have reserved a place at the Youth Summit

· There will be more than 100 participants at the Youth Summit, we still have free places

· Accommodation and catering are free of charge and there will be no participation fee

· Travel costs have to be beard by the participant, in exceptional cases we can check if travel support can be given to the participant