Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change

Hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) and coordinated by the Science Diplomacy Center – a “virtual dialogue by, for and among Indigenous youth with global inclusion” will circle the Earth across three 8-hour times zones in 24 hours on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples.

The Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC) is being convened by, for and among Indigenous youth, who will participate in designing the agenda and invite the participants on 9th August 2023.

In a complementary context, the Summit will precede the United Nations International Youth Day on August 12th.

The Summit will involve online and hybrid sessions by design of Indigenous youth teams who are stimulating the South-North dialogues within and between the three 8-hour regions.

Considerations of digital access are explicit from the start: seeking to identify local communication hubs within regions; taking advantage of remote satellite linkages where possible; and pre-recording where online access is unavailable.

It is anticipated that one of the hybrid sessions will be hosted at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, enabling Indigenous youth to interact directly with the United Nations.

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