New Report! This policy brief aims to highlight and unpack the key successes, structural challenges, and opportunities for locally- and youth-led NbS projects learned from Youth4Nature’s INUKA Pilot project.
We’re growing our youth fam! Youth4Nature is looking for a Finance Director! If you’re 18–30, excited about climate + nature, and ready to co-create in a global youth collective, this is for YOU! Apply by until October 10, at 23:59 UTC.
“Youth are not just the future of forests – we are the present.” What does it mean to really have youth at the table in a defining moment for America’s forests? Read our full reflections from the 9th American Forest Congress to learn more about this critical forest dialogue and what it means to be part of this space.
Unpacking water as both a trigger of displacement and a vector for peace, justice, and ecological repair, exploring case examples of youth-led solutions from around the world, and offering recommendations for next steps, this piece explores the intersections of water, mobility and NbS for climate action.
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.
We wanted to make sure that our talk of impact wasn't just that - talk. The results of our Impact Report showed us that our Y4N work is making meaningful and authentic impact on the ground and at the global level. We're talking everything from almost 20 webinars and a storytelling exhibit with 1000 visitors up to dialogues with government officials from over 9 countries and 1 million (!) people reached on social media. Read our full 2019-2020 Impact Report here.
“Planting new trees is undoubtably an important piece of the climate puzzle, but it’s not a silver bullet, nor should it be the first nature-based climate solution we turn to” - Canada released their renewed Climate Plan in December, and it includes an entire section about nature. Here’s why it misses the mark.
Increasingly, the traditional territories of Indigenous communities in Venezuela have become areas where Colombian Guerrillas, illegal miners and Venezuelan military forces openly cooperate to mine, coercing them to destroy their own ancestral lands, resulting in a large migration to neighboring countries, most notably Brazil. And yes, you read it right. The crises that Venezuelan Indigenous communities are facing are so devastating that they have no option but to go to the very same country that is all over main stream media because of the environmental crisis.
“Despite these humanitarian and environmental atrocities, very few global organizations or activists have mobilized or campaigned to make these issues known within their circles. In the meantime, this huge area is being mined, and the great biodiversity and the indigenous people in this area are being impacted and the damage will be irreversible.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden was recently projected to be the next President of the United States.
These results have the power to impact not only US policy and culture, but also international policy and global climate change mitigation.
President Donald Trump favors subsidies for fossil fuel giants in coal and gas, while time is running out in the race to lessen the worst effects of climate change. He creates a culture of climate denialism within the US and encourages destructive policies abroad.
COVID-19 has impacted millions of people worldwide. As the world enters a second wave of this pandemic, the race to develop a safe vaccine is at the forefront of political and public discourse and now includes the seemingly unrelated realm of conservation. Human health is of top priority around the world, but what about the health of marine life?
We are humbled and thrilled to announce that Youth4Nature is hiring! We are looking for seven young individuals to join our team and help us grow: one full-time Communications Director, and six part-time Regional Directors.
Thank you to our funders, ClimateWorks Foundation, for making this possible.
As a global, youth-led organisation working in the climate and environmental space, we hold ourselves accountable to the demands for racial justice in light of the recent events surrounding the murder of George Floyd and the consequent outburst of solidarity across the world against institutionalized racism, within the justice system and beyond.
Youth4Nature stands in solidarity with Black communities and the Black Lives Matter movement.
#BlackLivesMatter
The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres seems to recognize the substantial intergenerational injustice intertwined with Climate and Ecological Breakdown. But are his words falling on deaf ears?
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