Why attend
YOUNGO, Global Youth Biodiversity Network (GYBN) and Youth4Nature (Y4N) will share more about the Global Youth Statement Project on Nature-based solutions, the steps that led to this worldwide project and why youth representation is key when it comes to decision-making regarding actions such as nature-based solutions.

Session description
NbS are being pushed forward as an exciting and necessary approach towards addressing our twin climate and biodiversity crises. Many are also pushing against the concept, citing serious and important concerns with how and where the term is being used and by who. Missing in all of this is a united and inclusive youth voice, across both climate and biodiversity communities, that clearly outlines how the global youth community understands NbS, and what is acceptable, and not acceptable within NbS narrative and approaches, both in policy and on-the-ground. YOUNGO, GYBN and Youth4Nature have partnered to co-develop a nuanced, critical, and inclusive Global Youth Position Statement on Nature-based Solutions. We are currently in the survey stage, where global youth are in the process of sharing their views and opinions. This will then form the Global Youth Position Statement that will be launched at UNFCCC COP26 on Nature Day and will also be presented at CBD COP15.

Moderated by Cathy Yitong LI and Julia Bethe.
Panelists:

• Melvin FLORES

  Global Youth Action Team on Plastics, Global Youth Action Team on Biodiversity Protection
  Guatemala

• Ms Mirna Inés FERNANDEZ

  Policy Co-coordinator, Global Youth Biodiversity Network
  Bolivia

• Ms Patricia SANTILLAN CARVANTES

  PhD candidate, Leuphana University
  Germany

• Susanna GIONFRA

  European Programme Officer Nature-based Solutions, IUCN
  Belgium