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COP15: Biking Across The World For The Climate

December 17, 2009 Front Page No Comments

Follow all of Heather’s copenhagen coverage at http://youngvoter.org/cop15

“When Kim Nguyen, 28-year-old social worker, left his homeland of Australia in August of 2008, he thought of climate change as an abstract subject that was occasionally discussed on the evening news and something that politicians argued about. But Nguyen always sensed there was a bigger story out there.

So in the lead up to the United Nations (UN) Climate Negotiations in Copenhagen, Nguyen set out on a sixteen-month bike ride through 22 countries between his hometown of Brisbane, Australia and Copenhagen, Denmark to hear firsthand the story of climate change and it’s effects throughout the world…”

Continue reading the full article by Heather Box over at Huffington Post!

Stay tuned here at 99Problems.org for more updates from the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference!

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