YouTube UK, the Copenhagen Climate Meeting and BBC Question Time

This week two initiatives launched on YouTube with the aim of giving young people a voice in areas normally dominated by national and international decision makers: climate change policy and the BBC’s venerable Question Time.



In December we could see history in the making. World leaders will meet in Copenhagen to discuss issues around climate change and make decisions that may well go on to impact everyone's future. UNICEF believe that it is vital that the voices of children and young people are heard at the Copenhagen Climate meeting, and so, working in tandem with the City of Copenhagen, will be holding a climate forum in the first week of December. Young people from all over the world will come together to have their say – and YouTube users will be among them.



If you're aged between 14-17, UNICEF is offering you the opportunity represent the UK at the conference. To find out more about how you can become a part of the charity’s Big Climate Callout, check out the video below or head over to the UNICEF Tagd channel.








On July 9, a team of eight students will produce this year's edition of BBC Schools Question Time. For the fourth year running a place has been reserved on the panel for a well-informed, articulate young person aged between 18 and 21. The BBC is looking for someone who can be "a formidable opponent to politicians and represent the youth with vigour". Think that sounds like you? If so, click here to find out more. Next stop: the Question Time studio.


Have fun and good luck,

Tim Partridge, Marketing Manager, YouTube UK