Our 2024 Impact Report highlights how our work moves between the local and global levels. We are continuously exploring pathways to ensure that our local youth-led actions inform high-level policy—and that global decision-making is meaningfully translated back into local communities and ecosystems. Hear directly from our team about some of our most impactful work in 2024, and how we are working towards a future where communities thrive with nature across generations.
Funding Youth-Led Climate Solutions: Our journey in the new ClimateWorks Cohort
Change Is Possible When You Dare To Start Small
Día mundial de los humedales 2025 | World Wetlands Day 2025
El pasado 2 de febrero se celebró el día mundial de los humedales con el tema de “Humedales para nuestro futuro común”. Este año, Yuliana Rodríguez, que contribuye a nuestro equipo desde Bogotá, Colombia, se acercó a organizaciones locales que trabajan en los humedales de esta región. [English below]
Now Open: The Iris Prize 2025
Y4N at the 9th American Forest Congress
Announcement: Y4N Shortlisted for Inaugural GAEA Awards
Youth4Nature's 2023 Impact Report
Our 2023 Impact Report showcases how young people catalyse significant impact for the entire climate and nature movement, beyond ourselves. We invite you to explore in this report how our work at Youth4Nature is contributing to more robust, resilient, and transformative change, and imagine with us the possibilities if the largest population group on the planet received more 0.76% of the climate funding.
Become a Youth4Nature Global Ambassador
November 2023 Newsletter
By youth, for youth: Meet our Global Youth Delegation heading to COP28
Y4N is recruiting its next Board of Directors
We are recruiting a minimum of three (3) members to make up our Youth Board for a minimum of a one-year term beginning from the Annual General Assembly in August 2023 until the 2024 Annual General Assembly. This is a volunteer position with an estimated time commitment of about 60 hours per year.
We are looking for youth leaders between the ages of 18-35 years who have the knowledge and competencies necessary to comply with standard processes, policies, governance, and bylaws for a non-profit organization like our
We are hiring: are you our next Development Director?
We very much appreciate your interest in the position, as well as the time and effort that went into the preparation of your application. This position has now been filled.
Youth4Nature (Y4N) is seeking a confident, motivated, and enthusiastic Development Director to join our dynamic, global youth team and ensure that Y4N has necessary funding to function. The role involves implementing and updating fundraising strategies, managing relationships with donors, identifying and applying to grants, and leading the Fundraising Committee.
Youth4Nature's 2022 Impact Report
Youth4Nature’s Impact Report for 2022 is a powerful reminder of the vital role that young people play in driving the global climate and nature movements. In 2022, despite facing immense challenges, including limited funding and support, the youth leaders at Youth4Nature have demonstrated the ability to catalyze significant impact and deliver practical solutions. We invite you to see what young people are capable of when they are given the resources, opportunities and trust to lead.
How international climate activists can help those in Türkiye and Syria
Last Monday communities across Türkiye and Syria experienced devastating earthquakes, the impacts of which are extrapolated by the impacts of climate change such as drought, war, displacement, and more. What can we do? As the global climate community, we know what solidarity looks like. Y4N Syrian Global Ambassador, Yazan, has put together this call to action.
Just Released: Y4N's Private Sector Engagement Toolkit
Press Release: Youth4Nature Afrika Takes the Stage at the IUCN APAC in Rwanda
Youth4Nature delegation of 6 youth leaders from across Afrika attend the African Protected Areas Congress (#APAC2022) from July 18-23 in Kigali, Rwanda. The first of its kind, the congress convenes Afrikan conservation minds in a unique format to engage on key issues surrounding the conservation of protected and conserved areas across the region under the theme, "Promoting a sustainable future for Africa."
Whispers of Hope: Storytelling at the Africa Protected Areas Congress
We invite you to journey with us from the wetlands of Rwanda and Nigeria to the forests of Madagascar and Burundi, to the urban areas in Kenya, and to the landscapes of activism in Malawi. Check out our brand new virtual storytelling exhibition, made especially for the IUCN-Africa Protected Areas Congress 2022.