Braulio Dias visits the NAJU in Berlin

20.11.2012

Today the German Youth Association for the Protection of Nature (NAJU) gets a honourable visit from Braulio Dias, the Executive Secretary of the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
I want to attend the meeting and go to Berlin early this morning.

New high sustainable buildings are under construction in Berlin.



Berlin Hauptbahnhof

At the NAJU main office everybody is running around very excited. Last preparations are done before Braulio Dias arrives.
Juliane welcomes him and thanks him for taking the time to visit us, the NAJU. Then she gives the word to me and I welcome Braulio Dias in the name of the NAJU steering committee. We shortly introduce ourselves with names and our area of responsibility in the NAJU. Afterwards Svana presents the NAJU.

Svana and Braulio Dias



Norina introduces her responsibility area, the division of youngsters.



Vroni talks about our project nature's12,
that got awarded as an official project of the UN Decade of Biological Diversity.



Braulio Dias seems delighted and asks a lot of queries.



Katharina, Jan, Daniel and Jessica



Christian gives a presentation about the work of GYBN
at the CBD COP 11 in Hyderabad, India.



We were very successful in India
since we brought our text about youth participants
as approved major group at the CBD process in the negotiation paper!



Svana, Braulio Dias, Thomas Tennhardt and Juliane



Thomas Tennhardt from the NABU,
the mother organisation of NAJU,
joins us for the discussion with Braulio Dias.



Before Braulio Dias leaves again, he gets one of our GYBN shirts.






And of corse we take a group picture in the end.
Katharina, Jan, Norina, Juliane, I, Christian, Braulio and Thomas
(in the back)
Vroni and Arianna
(in the front)
Jan and Jessi
(are taking pictures)
and Svana already had to catch her train.

Thanks to everybody involved for this successful spontaneous meeting with Braulio Dias. It was definitely worth it to come all the way from Lüneburg to Berlin for those exciting and informative two hours.

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