How ICLEI engaged youth voices in 2024
From COP29 and the AfriFOODLinks Consortium to the ICLEI World Congress and key conferences across Europe, here’s how ICLEI took charge to involve youth in shaping the sustainability agenda during 2024.
Empowering local voices to tackle the climate emergency
To truly empower local people, community needs must be incorporated into policy, ideally using familiar language to communicate climate action and involving diverse groups in decision-making processes. Examples from cities like Baltimore, Glasgow, Lusaka, Rosario, and Baguio demonstrated the benefits of local stocktakes and continuous dialogue.
Local youth voices going global: Uganda’s youth-led stocktake
Under the #Stocktake4ClimateEmergency initiative, 26 cities and regions staged their local events that officially contributed to the first Global Stocktake….
Cities empowering youth for climate action: Lessons to replicate (and how to do it)
International Youth Day on 12 August recognizes young people as drivers of change. How can local and regional governments effectively…
Cities responding to the climate emergency through innovative finance, people-centered approaches, and resilience initiatives
Daring Cities 2022 highlighted the pivotal role of cities in responding to the climate emergency through innovative finance, people-centered approaches, and resilience initiatives, emphasizing the need for formalizing climate action processes, improving funding access, and including traditionally underrepresented groups.
Talking transformation: Going from unemployed youth living in slum conditions to catalysts for change
“Two huge things need to happen” to have any hope of lifting the world’s most vulnerable out of poverty, while…
Putting people at the heart of integrated climate action
Panelists and organizers for “Nothing about us without us: How to engage young people in co-creating sustainability policies?” included (left…
Women and girls at the center of transformation in the built environment
Throughout 2022 to 2024, IHRB, ICLEI and other partners advance a research and action agenda on just transitions in the…
Why there won’t be climate action without culture and youth.
“What of the past will the present save for the future?”. That’s how Andrew Potts, Coordinator of Climate Heritage Network,…
Playing green: Co-creating accessible, eco-friendly spaces for Hanoi’s children
When a city’s population triples in twenty years’ time, essential services need extra attention. In the case of Hanoi –…