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To close the event, Director of @undp.bsky.social Geneva, Agi Veres highlights that today's event has showcased alternative avenues for action.

As we all gear up for #COP30, youth is at the center of #ClimateAction and ambition.

Dominic Rohner of the Hoffmann Centre for Global Sustainability of the Geneva Graduate Institute stresses the need for deepened #democracy, more #participation, and evidence-based information. Empowering citizens is essentials, as politicians react to incentives & scrutiny from global civil society.

Orlane Moynat of UNIGE presents her research finding that when institutions put need satisfaction & collective change at the center of #climate policy, growth becomes a means towards human well-being & flourishing, which is often putting in place basic need satisfaction.

Juliette Rasse of Association des Centrales Villageoises, a group of people collaborating to take action for the #environment at their scale, stresses the cooperative provides a model of action for the #EnergyTransition that can be replicated across borders.

French climate activist @cyrildion.bsky.social stresses that the main action to be "#ClimateActivist" is to change the rules of the game the world works by switching from an economic model based on resource depletion to one that favors people and planet.

Ben Schachter of UN Human Rights highlights that against the worrying shrinking human rights space in #climate negotiations, we can correct such trends through instruments like climate litigations & requiring transparency as effective policy making and democracy depend on it.

Ingmar Rentzhog describes how @wedonthavetime.bsky.social came about after the realization that people in power will not solve the #ClimateCrisis for us. Therefore, the platform allows sending climate warnings, broadcasting climate discussions, amplifying all voices to reach millions.

In a fireside chat with Stephanie Feeney of DNAir, Elisabeth Stern discusses factors of the milestone KlimaSeniorinnen success, that include the group action dynamics, as the group was able to hold the State to account to protect their human rights from #climatechange.

Emphasizing that "citizens are not stupid" when it comes to #ClimateChange @nicolecurato.bsky.social argues for the value of a Global Assembly valuable as it provides a moral voice on debates, especially when people are given credible information.

Sharing his experience in climate negotiations to help call for greater corporate accountability, Mohamed El Hajji of Fridays for Future Morocco pushes for youth participation in such processes.

Sharing the changes in youth participation over time, Anastasija Đorđa Bosančić, Youth Delegation Representative of UNDP in Europe and Central Asia, highlights that engagement can be be meaningful when it becomes structured and institutionalized.

As "multilateralism that is open and inclusive is the way forward", an honest conversation between Moustapha Kamal Gueye of ILO and youth activists aimed to answer the question: is there a way to improve these?

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Speaking on the impact of the #ClimateProtests that took place in #Switzerland, Swiss youth activist @maxvoegtli.bsky.social stresses that through civil disobedience, citizens managed to put climate emergency at the center of the narrative. #ClimateAction

Providing findings from her book, "Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action", @fisherdanar.bsky.social highlights different ways in which citizens & civil society engage in #ClimateAction, whether directly or indirectly, or as "shockers" or "disruptors".

Opening the session, Agi Veres, UNDP Geneva Director, underscores the need to shape hope, as this event provides a platform that can show a variety of citizen #ClimateAction to keep the 1.5° goal.

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As citizens have become a driving force to push for ambitious #ClimateAction, join this interactive event at Palais des Nations, presenting citizen-led initiatives from around the world to keep 1.5° alive.

📆 2 December, 15:30 CET
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