REACH NOT PREACH
It is not enough to preach climate action,
we need to act to reach climate ambition.
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#OKBoomer, please take note
"Fighting climate change is not about having one destination in sight;
it’s a constant process of making the right decisions for the future and having the courage to act on them”
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- Jayathma Wickramanayake,
UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth
At UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY) in Glasgow this year, thousands of youths from all over the world have come together to demand change from global leaders.
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Inputs from individuals, environmental organizations and educational institutions have been brought together with the expertise of our policy teams to highlight the most indispensible action points to tackle the ongoing climate crisis.
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Read the Global Youth Statement below:
un secretary-general's youth advisory board on
climate change
From school strikes to demonstrations, and to innovation, young people’s mobilization all around the world shows the power they possess to help tackle the climate emergency.
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Building on this momentum, the Secretary-General launched his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on 27 July to amplify youth voices and to engage young people in open and transparent dialogue as the UN gears up to raise ambition and accelerate action to flatten the climate curve.
About Youth Takeover
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The year 2021 is a crucial year for climate change and the upcoming annual UN climate conference, COP26, is an opportunity to commit to climate action that we cannot afford to lose.
From September and onwards, Reach Not Preach is collaborating with the UN Secretary-General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change to amplify the voices of young people on climate action and bring forward youth perspectives ahead of COP26.
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Featured
Resources
COY16: Global Youth Statement
Daily coverage of COP26 by United Nations. This resource features a daily blog by United Nations with highlights of COP26, links to live coverage, daily podcast, Secretary-General's speeches, and other relevant resources.
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The UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change
From school strikes to demonstrations, and to innovation, young people’s mobilization all around the world shows the power they possess to help tackle the climate emergency. Building on this momentum, the Secretary-General will launch his Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change on 27 July to amplify youth voices and to engage young people in an open and transparent dialogue as the UN gears up to raise ambition and accelerate action to flatten the climate curve.
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COY16: Global Youth Statement
Thousands of youths from all over the world have come together to demand change from global leaders.
Inputs from individuals, environmental organizations and educational institutions have been brought together with the expertise of our policy teams to highlight the most indispensible action points to tackle the ongoing climate crisis.
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Read the Global Youth Statement below.
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Youth4ClimateLive Series
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The #Youth4ClimateLive Series is hosted by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea, in collaboration with Connect4Climate - World Bank Group and the Office of the UN Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth, as part of the initiatives organized in the run-up to the 2021 Pre-COP26 in Milan, Italy and COP26. Each session will bring together a diverse group of unstoppable youth at the forefront of creative climate action for intergenerational and interactive conversations with policy makers and experts.
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IPCC: The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis.
Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report.
​The report provides new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC
An IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty.
This Summary for Policymakers presents the key findings of the Special Report, based on the assessment of the available scientific, technical and socio-economic literature relevant to global warming of 1.5°C .
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Today, we are fearful, isolated, and threatened, but through these past few weeks of adjusting to COVID-19, and the few years of responding and acting to the climate crisis, and our experience organising for climate action, we have learned to be hopeful, connected and resilient. .
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YOUTH VOICES,
UNFILTERED
— Xiye Bastida, Saoi O’Connor, Sofia Hernandez, Theresa Rose Sebastian, Joseph Wilkanowski
and Ilana Zeitzer (Youth Activists)