🌍 Climate Empowerment: Achieving Children’s Rights and Youth Leadership for Just Climate Action
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​Join us for an inspiring discussion at COP30 to amplify the central role of children and young people as rights-holders and leaders in climate action. This session will explore how meaningful empowerment through education, participation, access to knowledge, and resources can accelerate just, effective, and equitable climate solutions.
​The event will bring together policymakers, youth leaders, and international organizations to highlight practical pathways for realizing children’s rights and youth leadership in climate action, from grassroots movements to global policy spaces.
​Speakers
​Chiagozie Udeh – Programme Specialist on Climate Adaptation and Innovation, UNFPA
​Felix Finkbeiner – Founder, Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation
​Joshua Amponsem – Co-Director, Youth Climate Justice Fund
​Hon. Rohey John Manjang – Minister of Environment, Climate Change and Natural Resources, The Gambia
​Hon. Seidu Issifu – Minister of State for Climate Change and Sustainability, Ghana
​Lorena Kélvia de Paula Muniz – Youth Climate Delegate, Kindernothilfe e.V.
​Olumide Idowu – Executive Director, ICCDI Africa
​Lydia Wanja Kingeru – Youth Climate Delegate, ChildFund Alliance / WeWorld Kenya
​Leyla Hasanoba – COP29 Presidency Youth Climate Champion
​Renata Koch Alvarenga – Founder and Executive Director of EmpoderaClima
​Ambassador Tadeus T. Chifamba – Permanent Secretary for Environment, Climate and Wildlife, Zimbabwe
​🎤 Moderator:
Fatou Jeng – Founder, Clean Earth Gambia / International Empowerment Manager, Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation
​Organising Partners
​Plant-for-the-Planet Foundation
​UNFPA
​ChildFund Alliance
​ICCDI (International Climate Change Development Initiative)
​Kindernothilfe e.V.
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