We hope to facilitate and coordinate a range of global youth voices, discussing and critiquing national and international policy (or lack thereof) on the environment, climate change and sustainability. We draw on and aim to influence the work of the international youth climate movement.
"There's many different tactics people take – not everyone can or wants to get arrested, not everyone can or wants to write letters, not everyone agrees with wavy-hands consensus meetings
For many indigenous peoples and communities around the world, forests equal life. From food to medicine, and from income to religion, forests hold an importance to many that cannot and
I know that many people around me have been left disillusioned after attending the climate talks, and are concerned that COP18 will again leave much to be desired. Regardless of
It’s a little over a week since COP18 ended in Doha, and the general verdict seems to be that the conference was a failure; the outcomes continue to lack the
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
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
The choices we make now about climate change will radically change the world we grow up into. But progress on a climate deal is slow, with powerful forces outmanoeuvring us.
After 2 weeks of negotiations, 48 non-stop hours of procrastination and closed talks in the chilly halls of the conference center in Doha, Qatar, a deal was (literally) hammered out
I just came back from an action that, quite frankly, makes me despair of civil society. How can we be pointing fingers at negotiators for not getting their act together
