At their meeting of 30th January the Rotary Club of Anstruther & District had as guest speaker Jamie Peters from the UK Youth Climate Coalition.

Jamie, who is a volunteer, gave an interesting talk about the work of the group, which was set up 4 years ago and is of people in the age range of 18 – 30 years. They want to raise awareness of climate change matters and in language that anyone can understand.

Posing the question why does youth and civil society bother? -  Jamie explained that UKYCC is motivated in its work by the view that young people form the majority in the World’s population, are the biggest stakeholders and with the greatest interest in the rights of future generations.

The group is very aware of the United Nations climate change negotiations and of the meetings of the World’s governments. The group regularly has a presence at meetings and seeks to lobby, to raise awareness, to make understandable, to intervene and to engage.

As might be expected on this topic, the talk prompted a number of questions from club members and to which Jamie was able to provide informed answers.

A vote of thanks was proposed by Roderick Skinner.