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We work hard trying to represent young people in climate negotiations! One way we do this is through the creation of consultative submissions to climate negotiators.
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OYCNN SB64 Training Program Position Statement
OYCNN SB64 Training Program Position Statement
Read the position statement here.
This year marks a significant year for Action for Climate Empowerment with the Midterm Review of the Glasgow Work Programme, which includes a review of the ACE Action Plan. Ahead of SB64, the Oceania Youth Climate Negotiation Network (OYCNN), delivered a training program to a group of young people across the Oceania region, including participants from Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Solomon Islands, Samoa and Australia. Through this training program, the group delivered a set of recommendations, organized into four priority areas to feed into the review of the ACE action plan, and what a new 5-year ACE action plan should include.
COP31 Submission
COP31 Submission
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Girls are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Across the Indo-Pacific, climate impacts, rising energy costs, and economic instability are making it harder for girls to eat, stay in school, and stay safe. These pressures are already reshaping lives and weakening stability across the region.
COP31 is an opportunity to place people and fairness at the centre of climate action and demonstrate that multilateralism still delivers in an increasingly unstable world. To date, no COP has meaningfully prioritised adolescent girls. COP31 can change this by ensuring climate action delivers for girls, alongside clear, time-bound commitments on climate finance, adaptation, loss and damage, and the transition away from fossil fuels.
This submission was developed by Plan International Australia, the Australian Youth for International Climate Engagement, and the Oceania Youth Climate Negotiation Network, informed by consultations with young people and experts.
COP31: A COP for children and young people
COP31: A COP for children and young people
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Children and young people around the world are on the frontlines of the climate crisis. Climate change is affecting their health, education, food security, and safety—and these impacts are set to intensify. As the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has warned, “climate change is the most significant intergenerational injustice of our time.”
Young people are disproportionately impacted by climate change, yet are too often sidelined from international climate decision making. Despite this, from the School Strikes 4 Climate to the campaign for an International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, young people have demonstrated leadership in global climate action. However, structural barriers continue to restrict meaningful engagement. Australia’s bid to co-host COP31 is an opportunity to demonstrate leadership in children and youth
This submission outlines a proposed roadmap for the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW), the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), and the Office for Youth to embed children and young people meaningfully in the lead-up to COP31 and beyond. It has been developed by a coalition of young Australians and informed by youth consultations across Australia and the Pacific.
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