Webinar Video: Climate Change

Event: Asia and the Pacific Youth Symposium 2021

Webinar Video: Climate Change

16 August 2021

From Nepal to the Marshall Islands, hundreds of thousands of young volunteers have taken to streets ringing alarm bells around the climate change crisis and are participating in global campaigns like ‘Fridays for Future’ and ‘Climate Action Now’. While the protests showcase youth’s frustration in current socio-political systems of managing the climate emergency, they are increasingly bringing youth in the limelight of ‘taking action’ and several governmental and non-governmental actors are now reinforcing this rhetoric particularly at the upcoming UNFCCC COP26.    

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