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Bookmark or Share- The role of youth in shaping climate action - UNICEFYouth-led climate actions and advocacy campaigns have already driven significant changes in national climate commitments. In Ecuador, 40 young people aged 13-28 years (including Indigenous Peoples, children on the move, and young people with disabilities) collaborated with international and national experts to suggest commitments for inclusion ...
- See how youth worldwide are now influencing climate actionThe Youth Climate Strike is an environmentalist protest wave ostensibly led by school-age children inspired by the activism of high-school-age Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Isra Hirsi, the co-founder of the U.S. Youth Climate Strike, has been organizing youth-led climate strikes and advocating for environmental justice.
- 3 biggest issues affecting youth today - The World Economic ForumIn the United States, between 2010 and 2017, mortality rates for working-age people, between 25 to 64, increased from 328.5 deaths per 100,000 people to 348.2 deaths per 100,000. The main causes were drug and alcohol abuse and suicide. The youth unemployment rate as a percentage of youth labour force Image: OECD.
- Young people hold the key to creating a better futureRead the report "Davos Labs: Youth Recovery Plan" here. Young people today are coming to age in a world beset by crises. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic devastated lives and livelihoods around the world, the socio-economic systems of the past had put the liveability of the planet at risk and eroded the pathway to healthy, happy, fulfilled ...
- Youth for climate action - UNICEFWe also work with youth to spread the message offline, through initiatives like UNICEF’s first-ever Climate Comic Contest. Sathviga ‘Sona’ Sridhar, a 21-year-old artist from Chennai, India, was the winner of the contest in 2017. Sridhar was inspired to take action on climate change after her community was hit by devastating floods in 2015.
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