Declaration's recommendations The youth delegate's Declaration outlines the main concerns and recommendations shared by all climate ambassadors, stressing how climate change has threatened their lives and that of their families.
At the group's inaugural meeting in Detroit, about 200 delegates signed a declaration of independence and a "government in exile" was set up.
Mr. da Silva made the comments just before a conference on the Amazon in which delegates signed a declaration calling for financial help from the industrial world to halt deforestation.
Delegates signed a Declaration that identified three fundamental goals.
In a 2004 meeting of the United Nations International Forumm on Indigenous Mapping, all 200 delegates signed a declaration stating that the "activities of conservation organizations now represent the single biggest threat to the integrity of indigenous lands".
Although the exact date has long been in dispute, most historians now agree that nearly all the delegates signed the Declaration of Independence in a special session of the Second Continental Congress on August 2, with a few signing later.
According to Ritz, about thirty-four delegatesigneded the Declaration on July 4, and the others signed on or after August 2. Historians who reject a July 4 signing maintain that most delegates signed on August 2, and that those eventual signers who were not present added their names later.
On 26 November, the children invited members of the country's three main political coalitions, as well as government ministries, UNICEF staff and others, to attend a ceremony that ended with the youth delegates reading a declaration.
At a press conference called to outline the proposals in the Chitose Declaration, UK delegate Harry Brooks said "it is the youth who are going to suffer the consequences" of climate change.
But the debate among delegates and the ensuing declaration outlining how the world should fight AIDS went far beyond medicine, delving into the sensitive cultural, political and economic issues that have contributed to H.I.V. transmission worldwide.
