Introduction

Youth engagement and youth-led action in climate policy processes contribute to achieving long-term resilience in 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).This launch event is focused on gathering inputs from youth across the world and finding the opportunities and avenues for youth to engage in climate education, training, public awareness, public access to information, public participation, and international cooperation

Objectives

• Gathering inputs from youth across the world towards developing a global framework for youth engagement that links to the UNFCCC Processes with a special focus on the key areas of ACE.

• Identifying opportunities for youth engagement in climate education, training, public awareness, public access to information, public participation, and international cooperation.

• Creating a platform for youth to actively participate in climate action and share existing knowledge and experience to improve better engagement at all levels through capacity-building and technical support.

• Working on a curated common framework to integrate youth engagement and key elements of action for climate empowerment into climate policies and actions.

• Scoping the way forward on national and regional events that connect to the framework development.

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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

Agenda