The continuous need to empower youth to accelerate and inspire the needed change in their communities stands at the centre of all our interventions.
The 30th UN Climate Change Conference (COP30) will take place in Belém, Brazil, in November 2025. This will be a pivotal moment for global climate policy, with decisions expected to be taken on transparency, finance and adaptation.
Resilient40 will be advocating for greater equity and inclusivity in addressing the climate crisis, primarily through empowering all members of society to understand and take part. Resilient40 would like to scale up the involvement of youth involved in climate action in their countries, as well as explore the role that indigenous knowledge can have on climate transparency and participation in the scientific processes.
Given our Youth United Climate Action Summit, youth consultations under the climate cafes and International climate justice Caravans, which will help set the agenda for COP30, is still a few months away, Resilient40 has already started laying groundwork for bringing youth to the table.
Shaping the Action for Climate Empowerment Dialogues
Credit: WaterAid, Young leaders Roundtable
As a part of the climate justice caravans, the Action for Climate Empowerment Dialogues bring stakeholders together to build capacity and exchange good practice on implementing climate empowerment.
This year’s climate empowerment dialogues will focus on the role of children and youth and Indigenous Peoples in accelerating implementation and promoting intergenerational intercultural knowledge-sharing.
Resilient40 stresses the strong emphasis that many types of outreach programs, especially community and school programmes, place on engaging children and youth. We further highlight that programs serving Indigenous communities, including resource centres that include Indigenous student bodies, are fully engaged in preserving knowledge and enabling intergenerational intercultural knowledge-sharing.
Resilient40’s discussion questions for the climate action empowerment community:
- What linkages exist between the formal and informal/non-formal education sectors that could be further developed to help extend climate action empowerment activities beyond the school environment and engage the full community?
- What is the importance of growing multiple literacies (Media, information, science literacy) in empowering children and youth to engage in climate action?
- What opportunities exist in the nonformal/informal education sectors to center children and youth and Indigenous Peoples and how can these be supported in policy and implementation?
Engaging Brazilian Youth
For the past two years, Resilient40 has worked to engage volunteers and members in the COP host countries on issues related to climate action. With COP30 being hosted by Brazil, this is an excellent opportunity to engage the Brazilian youth community, as well as the wider LAC Region.
That is the reason Resilient40 is thrilled to continue the journey of engaging youth as well organizations across Brazil. We have shared our background on Action for Climate Empowerment and the opportunities it offers the youth community, presented a theory of change that could assist in strategizing further engagements, highlighted a number of good practices from around our experiences in Africa, and shared recommendations for action and advocacy in the lead up to COP30 and beyond.
Do you have ideas for getting involved with Climate in 2025? Get in touch: internationalcaravans@resilient40.org
