[Brainwashed] Youths gather to go green in Shanghai - China.org.cn
"We must spread the low-carbon green ideal and blaze a path for the development of global green talent," said a statement from delegates at the opening of the second International Youth Summit on Energy and Climate Change.
About 220 university students and members of non-government organizations and industries from around the world are holding the two-day summit at the United Nations Pavilion at Expo 2010 Shanghai.
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In his speech at the opening ceremony, [Awni Behnam, the United Nations commissioner-general for the United Nations Pavilion] focused on the effects of mistreating the ocean. He said that land-based water, air and solid pollution, along with maritime transportation, energy exploitation and illegal fishing, have negatively affected the ocean's ability to absorb carbon dioxide and regulate the earth's temperature.
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