This section explores young people’s strategies, practices and experiences of participation and engagement. It provides a selection of resources on the topic of youth participation, including a tool to map multiple entry points into young people’s involvement in international decision-making, a direct follow-up of the London Symposium on meaningful youth participation.
In critiquing and assessing the impact of events and processes, youthpolicy.org has sought to provoke action, dialogue and honest reflection to ensure the inertia of global governance ends and a
Reflecting back on November's 2012 Ibrahim Forum this article offers a much needed analysis of those talking points that emerged from the event. Read on to find out how
With many parallel meetings, negotiators from smaller delegations are under-represented. Some Least Developed Countries (LDCs) can only send a few delegates to the talks, and so struggle to attend all
With the world’s population now at seven billion and counting, issues of human rights, health, education, and employment require action more urgently than ever before—especially for youth under the age
The Global Youth Forum, announced as “a first-of-its-kind global forum,” had to live up to high ambitions and expectations. Have the three days really been “an unprecedented opportunity to influence
Throughout the UNFCCC climate change negotiations, the youth constituency YOUNGO runs actions to keep pressure on negotiators, highlight issues in the media and add a bit of energy and urgency
In a press conference today, Christiana Figueres - Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC) - stated that “civil society is not doing enough to encourage governments to raise their level of
For the three days before the 18th UN climate negotiations (COP18), young people met in the eighth annual Conference of Youth (COY) to plan for their engagement with the upcoming
Yesterday Nathan Thanki addressed the opening plenary of the 18th Conference of the Parties (UN climate negotiations to you and me) on behalf of the youth constituency 'YOUNGO'. These addresses,
An economic crisis. Climate crisis. Resource crisis. Unemployment crisis. Poverty crisis. Ecosystem crisis. Energy crisis. Food crisis. Democratic crisis. Values crisis. Social crisis. The past few years appear to have
