Introduction

Youth are key stakeholders and actors for climate action, engagement in climate policy processes, and achieving long-term resilience. Youth-led action can contribute to managing climate risks and developing innovative and transformative climate solutions that connect to local, national, and global processes, such as the Nationally Determined Contributions, National Adaptation Plans, or Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Particularly after COP27 and with a view towards COP28, it is important to scale up youth engagement and create platforms and spaces that facilitate youth participation, exchange, and cooperation.This workshop aims to discuss opportunities and co-create solutions towards developing a framework for youth engagement that links to national processes and platforms, the UNFCCC process, ACE, and existing initiatives such as the Global Youth Forum on Climate Change and the Youth Partnership on Climate Risk Management hosted by SLYCAN Trust.

Objectives

• Discussing opportunities, co-creating solutions and sourcing youth focused climate research and outputs towards developing a framework for youth engagement that links to national processes and platforms, the UNFCCC process and to build on the key areas of ACE to determine the present key focuses

• Identifying opportunities for youth engagement in climate policy processes such as NDCs, NAPs and other related climate processes to ensure the process is inclusive and participatory.

• Enhance youth engagement in climate processes building on the Global Youth Forum on Climate Change and activities in the lead up to COP28.

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  Just transition in the energy sector
  - Key elements to ensure just transition in the energy sector
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the energy sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the energy sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Ensuring just transition in the food sector
  - Key elements of just transition and their relation to global and local food systems
  - Gaps and challenges faced in integrating aspects and strategies of just transition in the food sector
  - Institutional structures and role of actors in achieving just transition in the food sector
  - Entry points and opportunities for integrating just transition into climate policy initiatives and actions
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives

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  Gender, inclusion, social protection, and cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Key cross-cutting aspects related to just transition
  - Interlinks for integration of just transition with climate action and into different climate policy and action processes
  - Impacts of COVID-19 and the role of recovery actions in contributing toward just transition
  - Success stories, best practices, and experience sharing on initiatives