🌿The Iris Prize 2025 calls all youth-led projects working to protect and restore nature and the rights of those working to defend it 🌍 Do you have an idea or an established project? Are you aged 14-24? 🚀 Accepting applications until April 15th 2025 at 23:59 CET 🗓️
Youth4Nature is excited to share that we are members of the Steering Committee for the 9th American Forest Congress, coming up on July 15-18, 2025, in Washington, DC, USA. Learn more about our role and how to get involved.
At UNCBD COP16 in Colombia, we collaborated with Kenya Youth Biodiversity Network to bring together youth from around the world to explore the opportunities and concerns of integrating nature-based solutions into updated NBSAPs. Read on to find a summary of these youth perspectives!
This blog post provides an overview of the impact of COVID-19 on youth in agribusiness in Zimbabwe. It highlights key findings and offers insights from 5 government-led relief initiatives, and suggests potential solutions to not only rebuild youth leadership in agribusiness in the country, but to support sustainable practices for climate and biodiversity as well.
Forests are among the most complex ecosystems in the world, supporting many layers of life, from canopies, to undergrowth, to the microbial life at the bottom floor of the forests. Additionally, forests have strong historical, social and cultural attachments, developed over centuries, for adjacent communities.
Plastics are the newest, most persistent mode of modern-day slavery, or should we call it rightly, “Neocolonialism”? Plastic pollution is as much a menace as the petroleum sources that see it to life. Since the discovery of fossil fuels and the extraction of oil to power global economies, human consumption has increased just as the need to produce more and more plastic products skyrocketed….
“[…] the IPCC’s SRCCL shines light on interlinked global challenges like climate adaptation and mitigation, desertification, land degradation and food security, whilst suggesting land-related actions/NBS that can mutually benefit all these areas. Whilst much of the current discussion misguidedly focuses on singular individual lifestyle changes, just like with the Special Report on 1.5C, we urgently need large-scale and context-dependent action that is participatory, inclusive, multi-sectoral, and actively considers ecological, social, economic, cultural and institutional factors.”
