🌿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.
“Women and girls are critical to unlocking a planet within which people can thrive.” Benjamin Schachter, a Human Rights Officer and a focal point on climate change and the environment at the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Tracing back…
Being labelled as an educational forum for YDC, I knew incorporating Youth4Nature would be instrumental in my own participation. As an Indigenous youth, education is a two way exchange where both myself and the organizations I work with must benefit. My work at Youth4Nature has been focused on Indigenous engagement to both honour my roots, but also to help create better spaces for Indigenous youth to share how important nature and climate are to us as Indigenous Peoples. Being young…
The lack of a universally agreed upon definition of Nature-based Solutions, and the stemming concerns about human rights and missing biodiversity safeguards, are gaining traction. So the Global Youth Biodiversity Network, Youth4Nature and YOUNGO are joining forces to do something about it - we’re launching a much-needed by-youth and for-youth discussion and consultation on "nature-based solutions”. The work starts today.
Beside the current humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen, Yemeni society also faces a serious environmental issue concerning the SAFER Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) which is located approximately 4.8 nautical miles off the country’s coast. It contains nearly 1.14m barrels of crude oil and the lack of maintenance is creating the conditions for the most damaging ecological disaster in the region and the world, with the potential to quadruple the amount of oil spilled during…
Have you ever wondered what the fate of pollinators -mostly bees- is in polluted environments? Are bees really on the rise, or on a deep decline? What are the drivers, and what are the experiences like, for farmers who spent most time with these little friends? This is what we embarked on during our second webinar in the Pollinators for our Survival series. Gathered from…
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.
Among many other roles, healthy wildlife and wildland resources are the cornerstone of maintaining the ecological equilibrium of nature. Presence of wildlife shapes the character of its habitat, continually supporting the evolutionary adaptations of all complex ecological interactions in its environment, and on Earth. The presence of wildlife is an effective way to…
Previo a la Cumbre de Adaptación Global, la Red Global de Jóvenes por la Biodiversidad - Capítulo México en conjunto con Youth4Nature, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Cambio Climático de Canada (ECCC) y el Programa de Acción de Soluciones Basadas en la Naturaleza (NBS) de la Comisión Global de Adaptación, organizaron un evento para discutir las oportunidades y desafíos en la ampliación de la implementación de NBS y EBA (adaptación basada en ecosistemas).
En avance du Sommet mondial sur l'adaptation, Youth4Nature et le Réseau mondial de la jeunesse pour la biodiversité - Mexique, avec le soutien d'Environnement et changement climatique Canada (ECCC) et du volet d'action de la Commission mondiale sur l'adaptation, ont organisé un événement pour discuter des opportunités et des défis liés à l'extension de la mise en œuvre des solutions fondées sur la nature (SfN) et de l'ABE (approaches basée sur les écosystèmes).
In advance of the Global Adaptation Summit, Youth4Nature and The Global Youth Biodiversity Network – Mexico, with the support of Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) and the Global Commission on Adaptation’s Nature-Based Solution (NBS) Action Track, organized an event to discuss the opportunities and challenges in scaling up implementation of NBS and EBA (ecosystem-based adaptation).
Adoption of Nature-based Solutions specifically within cities has as well been identified to address a wide range of societal challenges; climate change mitigation and adaptation, disaster risk reduction, economic and social development, human health, food security, water security, environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. A great deal of emphasis thus should be put on practical NbS so as to boost greening and eco-friendly cities across the African continent.
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