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:

1. 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

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

We work at a multi-scalar level with a variety of partners and stakeholders, from grassroots movements and community groups to international NGOs and institutions. Above all, we prioritise working with and for youth. Our work falls within three pillars: