Students of Peking University publish Declaration on Climate change

Voluntarily lights out 12 minutes 17 seconds, experience life without lights Beijing December 18 Electric to guide the National University students in Copenhagen, to participate in practical action to deal with the weather changes. December 17, on the eve of the meeting, the Youth Volunteer Association of Beijing University jointly published the Declaration of Students of Beijing University on climate change.　　In order to attract young people to focus on Copenhagen, the National university students to shoulder the task of coping with the climate change, to open low-carbon and sustainable green life. As mentioned in the Declaration, global weather changes have posed an increasingly serious challenge to human development and social progress. As a young pioneer full of social hope and shouldering the mission of the Times, college students have the characteristics of high cultural quality, strong scientific consciousness, active thinking and full of passion, and have the bounden duty and unshirkable responsibility in leading environmental protection culture, promoting environmental protection activities and promoting environmental education.　　Should be a new strength to cope with the global weather change and protect the ecological environment, and to build an ecological civilization. In order to cope with the change of weather, college students should study environmental protection knowledge, broaden their horizons to promote environmental protection consciousness, and resolve the confidence of weather change, actively carry out academic research, exert professional advantage, develop scientific and technological projects according to national needs, and offer suggestions for coping with global weather change. , applying the concept of sustainable development to carry out green campus construction, reducing energy consumption level, promoting resource circulation, building model communities with resource saving, beautiful environment and benign ecological cycle; we should actively publicize popular science knowledge and effective measures to cope with weather change around the world, make efforts to build ecological civilization and guide more people to pay attention to　　Should really practice the concept of environmental protection, advocating low-carbon life, from the small things around, and strive to reduce their carbon emissions to the minimum. On the night of the proclamation, thousands of students at Peking University volunteered to turn off their lights 12 minutes and 17 seconds to experience life without light. Dormitory buildings through the dormitory lighting display "co2↓" shape, the image of the expression of "reduce carbon emissions, to cope with weather changes" good wishes.　　At the same time, the Beijing University BBS and other sites, around the climate change and sustainable campus construction and other related topics of the university students launched a lively discussion, reflecting the youth groups in response to the climate change in the earnest concern and initiative determination, as well as the Copenhagen Conference on the reduction of Low-carbon support. As one of the main initiators of the initiative, the environmental education base of Chinese university students was founded in 2006 by Peking University, which aims to build up a high-end platform for environmental education and environmental protection of Chinese university students, and to guide the contemporary colleges and universities to devote themselves to the practice of environmental scientific research, green campus construction, environmental education　　Continuously cultivate the relevant fields with green youth leadership of young people, three years to carry out the activities of the radiation number of more than 300,000, has been widely concerned by the community. Recently, the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, is in full swing, countries around the world to address the issue of global climate change to show their attitudes and propose solutions。 Premier Wen Jiabao also attended the leaders ' Meeting from December 17 to 18th, and delivered an important speech on China's attitude and proposition of actively responding to climate change and promoting international cooperation in climate change.