Young climate advocates are preparing to tell leaders at a UN summit next month that they are out of options: they must deliver now on ambitions climate action that pushes the world faster towards sustainability and empowers younger generations with the ‘green skills’ that will secure our future.
The International Youth Day 1 marked annually on 12 August this year spotlights green skills and the major role young people will play in driving the much-needed shift towards an environmentally sustainable and climate-friendly policies. To hear about what skills will be crucial in creating our green future, the UN News talked to members of the Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change 2 who offer their expertise to the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
This content originally appeared on UN News - Global perspective Human stories 3 and was authored by Anton Uspensky.