Australian Youth Climate Coalition
| Abbreviation | AYCC |
|---|---|
| Motto | "Building a generation wide movement to solve the climate crisis before it's too late" |
| Formation | November 2006 |
| Purpose | Youth representation |
| Headquarters | Melbourne |
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Region served
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 Australia
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Membership
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80,000+ |
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Official language
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English |
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National Co-Directors
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Kirsty Albion and Lucy Manne |
| Affiliations | Australian Climate Change Education Network, Affinity, AIESEC, Australian Medical Student Association, Australian Student Environment Network, Australian Youth Affairs Coalition, Centre for Sustainability Leadership, Engineers without Borders, International Young Professionals Foundation, Just Act, Law Students for a Just Community, National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia, National Union of Students, Oaktree, Oz Green, Sai Youth, Student Organised Network for Architecture, The Otesha Project (Australia), UN Youth Australia, Vision Generation. |
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Staff
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10 |
| Website | AYCC.org.au |
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition (AYCC) is a youth organisation in Australia. The coalition consists of 25 other youth organisations, which includes the National Union of Students amongst many. The organisation aims "to build a generation-wide movement to solve the climate crisis, through uniting diverse youth organisations around this common challenge" Internationally, the coalition is part of the Global Youth Climate Movement.
In 2004, organisations, which would later form the Youth Climate Movement, began to come together. Following on from the formation of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition in September 2006, the Australian Youth Climate Coalition formed in November 2006 with 27 youth organisations from across the nation at a founding youth summit.
The Australian Youth Climate Coalition is a non-partisan, non-profit coalition with the aim of "educating, inspiring, empowering and mobilising an entire generation in the struggle for climate justice and a clean energy future."
In 2009, the then Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner awarded the Australian Youth Climate Coalition's co-founders, Amanda McKenzie and Anna Rose, as well as the current National Director, Ellen Sandell, with the Environment Minister's Young Environmentalist of the Year Award for their efforts.
Every year since the formation of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, the organisation has sent a youth delegation to the United Nations Conferences on Climate Change to advocate on behalf of young people. For the 2008 conference in Poznań, Poland, the Australian delegation travelled through ten nations to reach the summit. Similarly in December 2009, the organisation sent a second youth delegation to the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference along with other members of the Youth Climate Movement.
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