Youth at GLF Climate:
rallying for climate justice
October–November 2021
Hybrid (online and in person)
#GLFClimate
What’s in it for you?
From challenging unsustainable food systems to restoring hectares of degraded landscapes, and from fighting for environmental justice to working for sustainable financial structures, young people are already building a movement that can foster the disruptive change needed to tackle the climate crisis and secure a sustainable future. The Youth in Landscapes Initiative (YIL) in collaboration with the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), has shaped unique program for young landscape leaders from all over the world, who can bring innovation, solutions and a fresh narrative to halt business as usual and dream alternative futures during the GLF Climate Hybrid Conference.
Your message for COP 26
As young experts and activists are pointing out, youth tokenism cannot be framed as inclusion when many young people from Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Indigenous communities – many of them now experiencing the impacts of the climate crisis first-hand – could be effectively barred from attending COP 26. For the past few months, during the GLF Africa and GLF Amazonia Digital Conferences, we have been listening to youth organizations and individuals from across and beyond our network talking about these challenges. The YIL community has created a space to learn more about young people’s messages and activities during COP 26.
SOME OF YOUTH FORUM'S SPEAKERS
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Forester
2021 Mountains Restoration Steward -
Founder
The Cacao Project -
Co-founder, Regional Director for Africa
Kenya Environmental Action Network (KEAN), Youth4Nature -
Co-Chair, Generation Restoration Youth Hub
Research Group on Ecological Interactions in Agroecosystems, University of Buenos Aires -
Youth Climate Activist, Environmental Engineering
Peru -
Treesnpeace, YIKES
Activist, Blogger -
Correspondence
Earth Refuge -
Grace Easteria
Restoring Oceans
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Dayak Youth Indigenous Leader & Restoration Steward 2021
The Heartland Project -
Laura Mukwana
GLFx Nairobi -
UN COY16 Glasgow
YOUTH AGENDA
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HOW TO PARTICIPATE
The learning program “Africa’s Drylands: A Restoration Road Trip” will explore what are the essential steps that need to be made in order to start a restoration project, and how to get there. Expert speakers will accompany participants through Africa’s drylands, and will answer key questions like: What do we restore first? Who should we involve? How do we restore drylands?
At the end of the program, it is expected that participants will have a deeper understanding of the steps needed to start restoring drylands in Africa.
Volunteer in Glasgow (in person)
Get Creative at GLF Climate
Volunteer in Glasgow (in person)
Get Creative at GLF Climate
Youth at GLF Climate
If you can’t make it to Glasgow, we’ll bring Glasgow to you!
Tickets are now available for the GLF Climate Hybrid Conference and are just EUR 5 for youth! Book your ticket now before the price goes up.
Volunteer in Glasgow (in person)
When you volunteer with the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF), you will collaborate with other inspiring young leaders to promote a message that’s essential for our time – and for the next generation: the time for climate action is now!
Volunteer roles
Registration support
Apply to help our team at the registration desk! The role mainly involves supporting registering and welcoming participants as they come, for around 6 hours a day. You will receive a free ticket for each day you will volunteer, as well as a per-diem of 30 GBP for each day of volunteering!
Social media
The GLF Social Media volunteers will collaborate with the GLF Social Media team by providing audiovisual material from the GLF Climate Hybrid Conference at the venue itself. They will record videos and take pictures with their phones, as well as note down some remarkable comments from the speakers and real-time updates. These materials will be shared with the GLF Social Media team who will publish them on the official GLF social media channels. The volunteers are also encouraged to create posts on their own social media channels tagging relevant accounts.
The Social Media volunteers will be the same for the three days of the conference, and will receive a free ticket to join the whole event!
Logistic support
We are looking for a few people who would like to support us with some logistic tasks, those might include handling the mic over to the audience, making sure panelists have water, sorting a room out before a session, etc. Logistic volunteers will be the same over the three days of the conference and will receive a free ticket to join the whole event!
Apply by October 31st 2021, 23:59 CET
Get Creative at GLF Climate
How creative can you get at GLF Climate?
If you’re between the ages of 18 and 35, the Global Landscapes Forum and Youth in Landscapes Initiative have a challenge for you.
Here’s the deal:
We want to see what you learned from each day of the conference.
Really, that’s it. But we need to see it: send us your best visual representation.
Draw a comic, film a video or even make a sculpture – it’s completely up to you.
The top 5 winners will win a prize of EUR 200 each. All participants will also receive a GLF Climate participation certificate.
#GenerationRestoration: The Advocacy Odyssey
YIL and the GLF, together with organizations from the #GenerationRestoration Youth Hub (co-facilitated with the World Economic Forum’s 1t.org platform), will create #GenerationRestoration: The Advocacy Odyssey.
This digital learning journey will focus on youth advocacy for ecosystem restoration to protect livelihoods, address the climate crisis, and prevent the collapse of global biodiversity. The program will consist of three online interactive webinars and one networking session to be held in October 2021.
Applications are now closed.
The Program
The two-day GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference will gather students and young professionals from all over the world. Playing key roles as speakers, volunteers, moderators and MCs, youth will not only participate in the conference but will contribute to shaping the outcomes that emerge.
The two-day conference will be, for some, the last stop of a digital journey – and for others, the first destination: participants in the online course “Biodiversity: a Digital Journey” will use the knowledge and skills earned during the program to contribute to the conference conversations, while delegations from more than 15 youth organizations will embark on a new path with us – co-creating a biodiversity policy brief.
Conference attendees will also be able to start or finish their days with regionally focused Youth Daily Shows, which will explore biodiversity-related topics through the eyes of young speakers.
SOME OF YOUTH FORUM'S SPEAKERS
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Zero waste chef, environmentalist and author
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Managing Director
The Good Food Institute -
GLF Africa Coordinator
Greenpeace Africa -
Research Fellow
Africa Centre for Green Economy -
Wildlife Biologist
Asociación Territorios Vivos El Salvador -
Landscape architect and spatial planning
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Biologist
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YIL alumni representative
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Conservation professional
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Moderator and biologist