UNEP FI will hold its first ever Global Roundtable in Africa in Cape Town on 22-23 October. Along with initiatives by, amongst others, the Green Building Council of SA and the Cape Town Partnership, this will mark Cape Town Green Week.

Six weeks later all eyes will be on Copenhagen and the UN Climate Change Conference, where important people will make crucial commitments on climate change and carbon emissions.

But the most important people will not be there: The children. For our leaders to be truly accountable, the generation with the most to lose must be given a voice. Starting here, our children can remind our leaders just why they need to consider us.

Global warming has made our planet sick. With our cars, our power stations, our factories we have poisoned the only earth we have and there is very little time left to fix it.

Soon the world leaders will sit down - here in Cape Town and in Copenhagen Denmark - to make an urgent plan to stop global warming before it's too late.