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A Green Future for Us: Youth Voices in Climate Justice

13 September 2021 @ 10:00 am – 11:00 am UTC+8

Plenary Session

Speakers:
Ayesha Constable, Young People for Action on Climate Change (YPACC), Jamaica
Dumiso Gatsha, Success Capital, Botswana
Renata Koch Alvarenga, EmpoderaClima, Brazil
Belyndar Oiaka Rikimani, Pacific Islands Climate Action Network (PICAN), Solomon Islands

Description: Youth voices, particularly those from the Global South, should be a key part of current and future discourse on climate change. This plenary session brought together young champions from different Global South regions, who are poised and passionate about the ongoing climate crisis and who have served as change agents in their homes, schools and communities. They highlighted the opportunities and challenges as well as the impact of their work in their individual spaces.

Watch the session in the video below, or click to view it on Youtube.

"The missing element of healing has been left behind as we continue to ignore intergenerational trauma and harm — along with the multiple hoops that young activists must jump through while facing other forms of discrimination, creating a wave of burnout and fatigue." — Dumiso Gatsha, Success Capital, Botswana
"As the Global South, we can't be in this position where the Global North is helping and having the patriarchal role. We should be leading the discussion, and change the narrative. Move past the colonial structure, we need to be in leadership and not token." — Renata Koch Alvarenga, EmpoderaClima, Brazil
Graphic recording from the session A Green Future for Us: Youth Voices in Climate Justice

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