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International Mountain Day 2020

11 December 2020
The United Nations General Assembly designated 11 December “International Mountain Day”. As of 2003, it has been observed every year to create awareness about the importance of mountains to life, to highlight the opportunities and constraints in mountain development and...

#Youth4ClimateLive Ep. 7: Driving Innovation and Entrepreneurship

11 December 2020
December 11th at 10am EST / 4pm CET Join in for an intergenerational dialogue featuring accomplished youth leaders Bethelhem Dejene, CEO of tree-free paper production company Zafree Papers, Arthur Kay, CEO of Skyroom, and Andrea Beye, PhD Fellow in Circular...

Call for expression of interest – Drafting of a Youth Declaration for the International Year of Plant Health 2020

10 December 2020
Deadline Monday 21 December 11am Rome time Plants are the source of the air we breathe and most of the food we eat. They play a central part in combatting climate change through capturing carbon and storing it back into the...

HLPE open electronic consultation on the V0 draft of Report #16: “Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems”

08 December 2020
During its 46th Plenary Session (14 – 18 October 2019), the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested its High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to produce a report entitled “Promoting youth engagement and...

Youth Vaccine Trust

08 December 2020
As part of a dynamic partnership of youth organisations and allies from the #MoreViralThanTheVirus Movement; including the UN Major Group for Children and Youth, HILA Alliance (UNESCO-GAPMIL), IFMSA, Talk Up Youth, African Union, Global Shapers Copenhagen Hub and MILEN Network,...