To mobilize and enhance youth voices from the grassroots to address the climate crisis and position their demands in the national and global policymaking conversations for claiming justice, ActionAid Bangladesh and Brighters Youth Society (BYS) jointly organized Bangladesh Youth COP 2023 in hybrid modality from 6-8 September 2023, says a press.
The first day of the Bangladesh Youth COP 2023 was inaugurated in the Global Platform Bangladesh office, emphasizing the significance of youth-led initiatives and the Green Manifesto.
The need for prioritizing renewable energy, loss & damage fund, and gender justice in climate action also came out as the key asks of the youth.
On the first day of the Youth COP, 100 young people participated in a workshop and voiced their demands on safe drinking water, coastal and wetlands crises, challenges of drought and flood affected areas, issues in the agriculture frontier, urban resilience and pollution, and gender justice and energy transition.
Young leaders shared their experience and perspectives on alternative practices, along the scope of innovation in carbon credit, transformation of pollution to sustainable solution and in agriculture & food security in the context of Bangladesh.
During the inaugural session, Farah Kabir, Country Director of ActionAid Bangladesh, remarked, "Young people have grasped the connections between climate justice and sustainable development.
