Youth Eco-Parliament 2006 ECO-UNESCO represents Ireland at the Youth Eco-Parliament 2006, in Paris. For the first time, Ireland was represented at the Pro Europe Youth Eco-Parliament (YEP), which ran from October 18th to 20th, in Paris. Three participants from the ECO-UNESCO Youth Representatives Programme Aoife Samblin from St. Dominic’s College, Jason O’Connor and Graham Murphy from Greenhills College, Dublin, represented Ireland at this prestigious Repak/ECO-UNESCO sponsored event. The Irish delegates are part of the ECO-UNESCO Youth Representatives Programme, which aims at empowering young people to become peer educators. The programme targets transition year students and consists of a series of workshops and excursions focusing on young people’s environmental concerns. As members of the official Irish delegation, Aoife, Jason and Graham had contributed to an open letter on the environment that was debated by the participants and submitted to a plenary session of the 3rd International Green Dot Recycling Congress held in Paris coinciding with the YEP. The young people also participated in different roundtable discussions and workshops during the course of the Congress. Elaine Nevin, ECO-UNESCO’s National Director comments “ECO-UNESCO is proud to be part of the first Irish representation in the Youth Eco Parliament and delighted to be working with Repak on this. We’ve been working with the three young people for 4 months on the completion of the YEP tasks and we are very happy that the Irish young people had the opportunity to voice their environmental concerns on the European stage.” In preparation for the trip each national delegation made a submission via a dedicated website (http://www.eyep.info) on an area of vital environmental interest and different online discussion forums were developed to allow students to communicate with their peers in other countries. The Irish delegation concentrated their efforts on an open letter addressed to Public Authorities emphasizing the need for sustainability of all the elements required for the preservation of our common European environment for future generations.