_{More than 300 students in HCM City on Sunday took part in activities for the International 350 Day for Climate Change.  Together with millions of people around the globe, they raised their voices about climate change and environment protection.}

_{The students made a painting of five-by-five metres, and 260 small paintings that were combined to depict the number 1,000 in celebration of Ha Noi’s millenium anniversary.}

_{The group also made a short video clip depicting their strong engagement in green living.}

_Copenhagen

_{The young people said the clip would be sent to an up-coming Copenhagen Climate Conference to be held in November in Mexico.}

_{Nguyen Dinh Vu An, a student of the University of Economics and Finance, said students who attended this event would have to be committed supporting the 26-degree Celsius campaign which encourages everyone to save energy and reduce greenhouse gases. "We will have vegetarian meals at least twice a month and not eat venison to protect wild animals. We will also try to increase the number of vegetarian meals because it is good for our health," An said.}

_{The students also composed paintings that showed opposition to smoking.}

_{The event was held by the university’s newly founded People and Environment (P&E) Club and the Sai Gon 350 Club.}

_{"This is not a big campaign, but we hope our voice will affect everyone. I want Viet Nam to raise its voice in international environment conferences," said Ngo Nu Huyen Trang, a member of the Sai Gon 350.}

_{"I hope our paintings will be shown at the up-coming Cop-enhagen Climate Conference 16 to be held in November, and that people realise that Vietnamese youth are enthusiastic about the environment."}

_{More than 7,000 events took place in 188 countries for the 10/10/10 Global Work Party, the single largest day of carbon-cutting action in the planet’s history.}

_{The day of climate action was organised by 350.org in partnership with hundreds of organ-isations around the world.}

_{Organisations and individuals working for the environment in Viet Nam organised about 50 activities around the country to protest behaviours that cause climate change, such as vegetarian campaigns in Ha Noi, tree plantings in Ha Tinh, bicycle campaigns in Hue and Da Lat, vegetarian campaigns in Da Nang, and others.}

_{Political message}

_{The goal of the day is to send a pointed political message: "If we can get to work, you can get to work too, on legislation and treaties that will make all our work easier in the long run," according to 350.org.}

_{The campaign required bold energy policies from political leaders against climate change, the group said.}

_{By Thuc Anh}