Question Time for young people

Government ministers invite climate questions from your students, please submit by Wednesday 2nd December.

On Friday 4th December, the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will host an exclusive Question Time debate for young people.

The panel will include Energy and Climate Change Secretary, Ed Miliband and International Development Secretary, Douglas Alexander. The debate will be chaired by the UK Youth Climate Coalition, of which Oxfam is a member.

Two members of the Oxfam Youth Board will attend the event and will pose their own questions to the ministers.

We would also like to invite students around the country aged 16+ to submit questions for the panel.

Writing questions could form part of active global citizenship classroom activities, with a tutor group or simply highlighted as an opportunity for students to take up outside school.

Please note the following request from DECC:

“Your question can be about anything to do with climate change, but please make sure it concerns the UK. For example, you could ask how the UK intends to safeguard young people’s rights in countries that are vulnerable to the effects of climate change.”

To submit a question, please send it in by Wednesday 2nd December 2009, also copying in youthteam@oxfam.org.uk. Students must include their name, age and county.

We wish your students the best of luck in having their questions chosen for the program, which will be broadcast live at 9am on Friday 4th December.

For more information download the flyer.