How can young people thrive and grow knowing that the world will increasingly become a harder and scarier place to live in? What does it mean to be young in the middle of the polycrisis?
Young people are often the ones experiencing the polycrisis at its core as it is indeed challenging to envision a positive future while most systems seem to be on the verge of collapsing. Younger people however are also the ones who understand most the centrality of climate justice and of addressing historical imbalances that have been created by the current economic system.
Please join us for a special online event where we will hear from prominent youth leaders and what actions they are taking in tackling the polycrisis globally. We will hear from several perspectives looking at the politics of climate change, the intersections of energy and gender policies, as well as the necessary measures that need to be taken to fund youth-led solutions.
Live Event & Recordings
The live event will take place between 4:00-5:30pm UTC on April 2, 2024. (Find out what time this is for you.)
Sample Times:
- 9am San Francisco
- 11am Bogotá
- Noon New York City
- 1pm Santiago
- 5pm London
- 6pm Brussels
- 7pm Nairobi
- Midnight Kuala Lumpur (April 3)
- 1am Tokyo (April 3)
- 3am Sydney (April 3)
If you are unable to attend the live event, we encourage you to sign up anyway as a link to the recording will be sent to anyone who registers below.
Register for the Event
About the Panelists
Eduarda Zoghbi has over eight years of experience managing climate and energy projects at international organizations, such as the World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, and the United Nations, with a regional focus on Latin America and Africa. She is Development Officer at Rocky Mountain Institute, an advisor to the UN Development Programme’s energy governance working group, and an advisor to Student Energy. Eduarda has been recognized for her work with environmental education and energy projects — she was named as one of the Global Wind Energy Council’s (GWEC) Revolutionaries in 2022, an AMP Global Youth Visionary in 2021 and received the North American Association for Environmental Education’s (NAAEE) 30 Under 30 award in 2019.
Joshua Amponsem is the Strategy Director of the Youth Climate Justice Fund. He is a Ghanaian climate activist and the former Climate Lead at the Office of the UN Secretary General’s Envoy on Youth. He has over 8 years of experience working with young people on Climate Action Disaster Risk, and Resilience Building. He founded Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO), served as a member of the IRENA Global Council on Enabling Youth Action for SDG 7, and has been an Adaptation Fellow at the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA). In the past two years, Joshua has focused on supporting grassroot youth-led organizations and is continuously engaged in the advocacy to shift climate philanthropy to youth and locally-led organizations.
Omnia El Omrani is the first official Youth Envoy for the COP27 President and a medical doctor from Egypt. She is a Climate Change and Health Junior Policy Fellow at Imperial College London, a Commissioner at the Lancet-Chatham House Commission on Post-COVID Population Health, a Youth Sounding Board member of the EU DG-INTPA, an associate at Women Leaders for Planetary Health, and a member of the Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety and UNICEF-Az Youth Leaders Programme. She has attended the last five UN Climate Change Conferences, representing more than 1.3 million medical students worldwide in the International Federation of Medical Students’ Association (IFMSA), and in Egypt representing youth globally.