Our Work
educate, equip, establish
We envision a World where communities thrive with nature across generations
Youth4Nature (Y4N) is a by-youth, for-youth, international non-profit organisation that educates, equips, and establishes youth as leaders on system-wide solutions for the nature and climate crises that are rooted in traditional & scientific knowledge and grounded in intergenerational justice. We do this through capacity building, knowledge sharing & storytelling programmes.
Our mission is to address the challenges of resources, capacity, knowledge & access that prevent youth from leading on solutions in the climate-nature nexus. Through knowledge-sharing, capacity-building & storytelling endeavours, we strive to educate, equip & establish youth as the climate-nature leaders we know we already are, on a local, regional & international level.
At Youth4Nature, we believe the best way to achieve our mission of addressing the barriers facing youth in leading on climate-nature action, is by endeavouring to reach our three long-term goals, which are to:
Educate youth worldwide about the root problems & interconnected solutions to our climate & nature crises, by facilitating the sharing of both traditional & scientific knowledge, and convening collaborations across our network to bridge the nature & climate movements
2. Equip youth to become the equal & necessary changemakers, experts & decision-makers, that we know we are, both locally within our communities as well as on the international stage, by building our capacities as stewards for nature & climate, financing youth work, valuing youth voices and creating meaningful spaces to share our stories; and,
3. Establish the role of youth as nature-climate leaders, by mobilising our communities to advocate and take ambitious action for climate and nature, and to tackle the climate, environmental & societal injustice prevalent within the nature & climate decision-making spaces.