The Japan Times announced Thursday it will send three teenage students as "junior reporters" to Copenhagen in December to cover a key United Nations climate change conference.
Saki Fujiwara, 19, Sara Tomizawa, 14, and Mariko Iinuma, 13, all members of the Tokyo-based group Children's Express, "wish to have their voices heard" by adults by reporting from the 15th Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP15).
Participants from 190 countries will gather in the Danish capital to try to forge a new framework on reducing greenhouse gas emissions to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which expires in 2012.
The three students visited The Japan Times on Thursday and expressed hopes and expectations for their upcoming visit to Copenhagen.
Fujiwara took part as a youth activist in the COP14 climate change conference in December 2008 in Poznan, Poland.
