UK Youth Climate Coalition
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| Abbreviation | UKYCC |
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| Motto | UK Youth united for a clean, just future. |
| Formation | June 2008 |
| Type | Non-profit company limited by guarantee |
| Purpose | Youth representation |
| Headquarters | London |
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Region served
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 United Kingdom
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Official language
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English |
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Co-Directors
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Jake Leeper, Hannah Smith |
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Key people
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Casper ter Kuile and Emma Biermann, Co-Founders |
| Affiliations | ActionAid, Amnesty International, British Youth Council, Diana Awards, Envision, Friends of the Earth, Liberal Youth, LJY Netzer, Made in Europe, Medsin, National Union of Students, Otesha Project, Oxfam, People & Planet, RSPB, Scottish Youth Parliament, Stop Climate Chaos, Unicef, The Woodcraft Folk, Young Scot |
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Staff
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0 |
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Volunteers
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20 |
| Website | UKYCC.org |
The UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) is a non-profit youth organisation in the United Kingdom. The organisation is run entirely by unpaid volunteers, who are all under the ages of 25.
Formed in 2008, the mission of the organisation is to inspire, empower and mobilise a coalition of UK youth organisations and young people to take positive action on climate change. To achieve their aims and objectives, the organisation provides training to young people on public narration whilst coordinating a series of projects, campaigns and events each year, including youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations.
The organisation is supported by a coalition of non-governmental organisations.
In June 2008, the United Kingdom ambassadors to the World Wide Fund for Nature's Voyage for the Future programme, Emma Biermann and Casper ter Kuile, returned from the Arctic to found the UK Youth Climate Coalition (UKYCC) after being inspired by young people undertaking similar projects across the world, such as the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and the Energy Action Coalition in the United States.
By bringing together a number of youth organisations and a coalition of non-governmental organisations, the co-founders intended to unite the work of their partners. Following on from this, the co-founders formed a coordinating team who worked on a number of projects, campaigns and events over the duration of the next year.
The mission of the organisation is to inspire, empower and mobilise young people to take positive action on climate change. To achieve their aims and objectives, the organisation provides training to young people on public narrative, using the techniques developed by Marshall Ganz who was part of the U.S. President Barack Obama's election campaign, whilst coordinating a series of projects and events each year, including sending a youth delegations to the United Nations Climate Negotiations.
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