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.
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.
Youth4Nature supported four youth delegates to attend COP15, where we advocated for meaningful youth inclusion, rights-based approaches, and explicit connections between nature and climate. Read on to learn more about what happened at this historic conference for global biodiversity, and what Y4N did there.
It’s been over a year since we came together with GYBN and YOUNGO to release the Global Youth Statement on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). With COP15 just around the corner, we have put together a short review of what has happened in the NbS discussion since the Statement was released, and share some insights into what we can expect from the discussion moving forward.
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."
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.
What happened at Stockholm+50? How does it feel to be a youth at these high-level international events? How do we take the outcomes of this event with us moving forward? Find the answers to these questions and more in this reflection from Raysa and Steph, members of Y4N Europe & Central Asia team who journeyed to Sweden for this conference.
Learn more about the valuable insights and perspectives we heard from our global and intergenerational panel of forest stewards that joined our official side-event at the XV World Forestry Congress!
Youth4Nature's Afrika and Storytelling teams are partnering to get involved in the African Congress on Protected Areas, starting with this storytelling special competition. We are calling for youth across Afrika to submit their stories on protected areas, particularly (but not exclusively) looking for stories from North Africa, Southern Africa, Central Africa and non-Anglophone regions/communities.
“What a joy to share with you our fourth issue, and receive once again your attention and feedback. We hope that your contribution and engagement can plug us into the power of change even further.”
Reflections from North America, Latin America & Caribbean (Abya Yala), lessons on composting, highlights of our volunteer team at #Y4N, and more in this issue of PolleNectar. Dive in!
Y4N Afrika ushers us into what April has been for them, while pressing on into their #PhotoChallenge monthly feature. Join them as they celebrate our precious planet, with actions on the streets, impacts and solutions to soil erosion, views from the lake, moments along the coast, and resilience in the deserts.
We invite you to reflect on 2021 with us. To step into our world(s). To learn with us and to listen to us. There is so much knowledge sharing to do, so much capacity building needed, and so many stories to amplify. Our 2021 Impact Report is just a small look into how we’re making change for climate, for nature, and for our communities.
Lebanon conducts its first-ever national dialogue between the private sector and the Ministry of Environment on Climate Finance organized by the Ministry of Environment. It is a hopeful moment given the circumstances the country is passing in. Read more to find what our West Asia Regional Director, Rayan, deduced from the meeting.
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