ARRCC will be setting up a Youth Embassy outside Parliament in the week leading up to July 1st. The Embassy will be a chance for under-25's to re-focus MPs, media and the public on their hopes and aspirations for a just and sustainable future.

July 1st is when Australia will be taking its first tentative steps as a nation towards a more sustainable future - it is when the Government starts implementing the Clean Energy Future legislation ( known popularly as the "carbon tax"). It has received a lot of negative press in the last year or so, with a lot of the talk about what it will cost in the short-term. There is much powerful self-interested lobbying to maintain current lifestyles and business practice, despite overwhelming scientific advice that this puts the future at unacceptable risk.

The Embassy aims to re-focus Australians onto the big picture: caring for the future of the world's children and their children.

The world's children will have to bear the outcomes of decisions that affect their future, for good or for ill. Adults do not have the moral right to make decisions in their own interests alone. They are morally responsible for taking care of the interests, choices and freedoms of future generations. Particularly vulnerable are the 2.7 billion people under the age of 24 living in developing countries, and the generations after them.

As young people begin sending in YouTube videos, cartoons, poetry, letters, art, opinion pieces and stories, their messages will have a creative energy which reaches beyond scientific facts and arguments. ARRCC will pass these messages on to MPs and to the media to magnify their voice.

Visit the Youth Embassy website.