The 2008 Topics

  • Climate change and global warming

    Global warming and climate change are one of the greatest threats to our planet. Today's children and young people will bear the brunt of the impacts of climate in the future.

  • Check back soon for the 2008 Fact Sheet.

  • Global health: Child survival, infectious diseases and HIV and AIDS

    Infectious diseases, such as HIV, cause untold human suffering and in some countries are reversing decades of development progress. Across the world, there is one common denominator: children and young people are disproportionately affected.

  • Download the 2008 Fact Sheet.

  • Poverty and development

    Poverty hits children the hardest. While a severe lack of goods and services hurts every human, it is most threatening to children’s rights: survival, health and nutrition, education, participation, and protection from harm and exploitation.

Check back soon for the 2008 Fact Sheet.

Chitose Declaration and Young People Action Plan

We, the thirty-nine J8 delegates from Barbados, Canada, Cote d’Ivoire, France, Germany, Iraq, Italy, Japan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Russia, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America believe that it is imperative for G8 leaders to listen to the voices of young people. We urge you to act upon previous J8 declarations as well as our own, so that young people are not ignored. We also need follow up with the G8 governments so that young people can get involved and make sure that our ideas transfer into action NOW and in the future.

Resources for learning and working with youth on global citizenship.