David busy interviewing Mr. David Chan (Hong Kong) and taking notes.

 

 

 

 

Ales explaining the Young Minds website to Mr. Brendan Quinn, Private Secretary for the Minister of State for the Department of Environment, Ireland. 

 

Interview with Prof. Doutor J. Pereira Miguel

General Director and High Commissioner of Health,

 Portugal

 

Do you think that  the government should take into the account young peoples opinion when they are taking  decisions?

ANSWER: Yes, of course

 

What do you think young people could do to help improve the environment?

ANSWER: Well young people should be effective and learn how they can do that and they should collaborate in any opportunity. They have to care for the environment  by acting in their school and their neighborhood, and also by acting on the regular basis (writing on the walls or doing anything to protect the environment.

 

What do you think is the biggest problem regarding air pollution in your country?

ANSWER: We have some problems in our cities as we have some  polluting factories. Fortunately, we a new project mainly regarding treatment of waste in urban areas, means we have new facilities which are much more friendly to the environment. We are following the the directives of the European Community, but certainly there are still some places where there are some problems with the ozone particles.

 

Interview with Tharald Hetland

Senior Advisor,

Department of Public Health, Norway

 

Do you think the government should take into account young people's opinion when making decisions for the future?

ANSWER: Yes.

 

What do you young people could do to help improve the environment?

ANSWER: Learn about problems, learn about their countries.

 

Do you think noise pollution is a big problem?

ANSWER: It'a a problem, but not a big one.

 

What do you think could be done to encourage people to use public transport more often?

ANSWER: Making it cheaper.

 

What do you think is the biggest problem regarding air pollution in your country?

ANSWER: Smoking, oil production.

 

David and Lenny (England) interviewing

Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director European Environment Agency and

Dr. David Stanners, Programme Manager

Interview with Daniel Kapp

Ministers Spokesman, Austria

 

Do you think the government should take into account young people's opinion when making decisions for the future?

ANSWER: Absolutely, we are in democracy.

 

What do you young people could do to help improve the environment?

ANSWER: Be better grown-ups.

 

Do you think noise pollution is a big problem?

ANSWER: Absolutely yes.

 

What do you think could be done to encourage people to use public transport more often?

ANSWER: To have better services, more convenient buses running more frequently.

 

What do you think is the biggest problem regarding air pollution in your country?

ANSWER: General traffic and transit traffic.

An Interview with Joel Tickner

Observer and 

Consulant from the U.S.A. 

 

Do you think the government should take into account young people's opinion when making decisions for the future? How?

ANSWER: There should be conferences for the young people in which they would have the oportunity to express their opinions.

 

What do you think that young people could do to help to improve the environment?

ANSWER: Young people should learn about the air pollution and they should fight for the changes for the better.

 

Do you think that the noise pollution is a big problem?

ANSWER: Well it is a big problem in urban areas but not at the other places.

 

What do you think could be done to encourage people to use public transport?

ANSWER: I think that the best way to do this is this is to raise taxes on the gasoline.

 

What do you think is the biggest problem reguarding air polution in your country?

ANSWER: The biggest problem is traffic, at least I think so.