On Feb. 11, 2009, Lauryn Drainie, member of the Canadian Youth Delegation to the December 2008, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland, spoke at the Toronto Climate Campaign's, Poznan Post Mortem & Copenhagen Countdown report back, about the conception of Project Survival, and the hundreds-strong youth protest that was initiated on the final day of the conference.

Project Survival was inspired by a representative from the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), who stated that the current global emissions targets set by powerful countries will condemn their nations to extinction. Its unifying principle: to "safeguard the survival of all peoples and nations."

Pics and eyewitness blog by participant, Joshua Kahn Russell (RAN)

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• Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)
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• Dec. 2009, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - Copenhagen
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