Two young Singapore environmentalists to participate in Bali conference

Channel NewsAsia 7 Dec 07;

SINGAPORE : Two young environmentalists from Singapore will join 28 others from ASEAN countries to attend the UN Climate Change Conference in Bali.

Singapore is represented by 16-year-old Hu Ching from Raffles Junior College and 24-year-old Nanyang Polytechnic student Choo Pei Ling.

Both have achieved the National Youth Achievement Gold Award.

They are in Bali for the UN Environment Programme's (UNEP) South East Asia Youth Environment Network Conference on Climate Change (SEAYEN).

The four-day event starts on December 9. The youth conference will later present a statement at the main Climate Change Convention.

Singapore's National Youth Achievement Award Council and the UNEP Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific had agreed on the SEAYEN conference in a Memorandum of Understanding dated 7 November 2007. - CNA/ms