Sign up now - Live video chat with Suchitra Sugar from UNICEF

Join a live interactive video chat on the UN Cyberschoolbus with Suchitra Sugar, a climate change specialist for UNICEF. Ms. Sugar works in the Education Section of UNICEF in New York City. She is currently working on the Environmental Education Resource Pack to educate young people in developing countries about climate change and its effects. Ms. Sugar studied ecology and environmental science at Dartmouth College and Cornell University in the United States. Her previous work includes environmental education, natural reources conservation and restoration in New York City.

Date: Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Time: First chat: 9 am - 10 am (EDT) Second chat: 10 am - 11 am (EDT)

How to register: Send an email to cyberschoolbus@un.org with the following information:

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Please indicate which chat you want to participate in (Chat 1 or Chat 2), put "Live video chat" in the subject line and send a list of questions you are interesting in asking at least one week before the chat.

The first 25 educators or students to register for the video chat will be accepted. Share a computer with others to allow more teachers and students to participate. You will be notified by email if you have been accepted and instructions on how to participate will be sent to you. A desktop or laptop with internet access is all that is needed to participate. If you miss this chat, it will be archived for future viewings.

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The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has called climate change "the defining issue of our era." Spectacular advances in human development have been made since the Human Development report was first published in 1990. Both the number of people living in extreme poverty and child mortality rates have fallen. At the same time, life expectancy has increased and the number of children completing primary school has increased. Global warming, however, has the potential of undoing all of the progress that has been made. It is a direct threat to our efforts to eradicate extreme poverty around the world.

This live chat will give teachers and students the opportunity to learn about the threats posed by global warming and what we need to do to stablize the concentration of greenhous gases in the atmosphere