How can youth and grassroots projects contribute to achieving an healthy planet? Which actions can we make to support a sustainable transition and fight climate change?

Read this insightful blog to find out more and thanks a lot Wanjiku DK for sharing!

Urban Forests of Melbourne

Según Vidal (2020), "en 2008, Jones y un equipo de investigadores (2008) identificaron 335 enfermedades que surgieron entre 1960 y 2004, y al menos el 60% provenían de animales. Cada vez más, dice Jones, estas enfermedades zoonóticas están relacionadas con el cambio ambiental y el comportamiento humano. La interrupción de los bosques vírgenes impulsados por la tala, la minería, la construcción de carreteras a través de lugares remotos, la rápida urbanización y el crecimiento de la población está acercando a las personas a especies animales que nunca antes habían estado tan cerca".

Join us on Thursday 2 June to discuss the Zero waste vision and the particular role mayors and municipalities (can) play!

UNDP is co-organizing this official side event with Avfall Sverige and the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA). The side event can be followed through livestreaming (see below).

Waste Management – Mayors’ dialogue on targeting Zero Waste
Thursday, June 2, 2022
11:30-12:45 CEST, Stockholmsmässan, Room 5
Stockholm, Sweden
Stockholm+50 website: https://www.stockholm50.global/events/waste-management-urgent-issue-be-…
SparkBlue: https://www.sparkblue.org/event/waste-management-urgent-issue-be-addres…
Livestreaming link: https://youtube.com/video/cHV7JknLRSE/livestreaming (will go live during the side event)

Due to gender inequality, men and women experience the effects of climate change differently. This is especially true for women in developing countries that are expected to harvest crops ?, collect water ? and source fuel ?. Yet, lack of understanding and political commitment on these issues translates into gender being often absent from climate policies and green recovery plan – undermining the transformative potential of these interventions.

Similarly, what are the main challenges for a sustainable and inclusive recovery in your country? What are some ways in which we could address these obstacles?

Some options below:
a. Lack of knowledge and/or public awareness
b. Lack of political support and/or leadership
c. Inadequate access to finance
d. Insufficient community involvement and stakeholder partnership
e. Insufficient timely and reliable data to make informed decisions for recovering from COVID-19 and achieving the SDGs

In the news today "As Pakistan and India sweltered during the recent heatwave, the city of Jacobabad hit a record-breaking 51C. Normally the summer heat starts from the last week of May, but this year, for the first time according to the people here, the heat began in March. Now it will continue till August".

Read this insightful article to find out more about how nature based solutions, such as green corridors and parks, can mitigate heatwaves in urban contexts.

Thanks a lot Monica Troilo and Clément Charnaillat for sharing!

Intelligent Revolutions, a Possible Solution for Global Crises

Today, all human-caused crises such as climate change, military conflicts, vaccine injustice, racism, sexism, et cetera are deeply connected to human nature. Our endless hunger for something free, for example, has led to exploiting natural resources in such a greedy way as to bring about massive extinction everywhere, potentially causing our own extinction.
Why are most people reluctant to take action against the climate crisis? It's probably because candidates will hardly become leaders if asking the voters to do more work or to make less money. Besides, is it fair for a few nations to protect the global environment arduously while the rest of the world seems motionless? Is it necessary for a few individuals to sacrifice modern comforts for human future while a growing number of drug addicts, alcoholics and gluttons are wasting much more resources than the few can possibly save?
I think intelligence holds the key to overcoming the dark side of human nature and to promoting the bright side. Making continuous improvements on mental ability is our only way to survive and to thrive in the long term. Without major advances on intelligence in general population, I'm afraid that most would just keep doing business as usual in the midst of global warming. To make great leaps in our brainpower, intelligent revolutions are urgently needed.
To start the revolutions, I suggest providing everybody with so many books and films in digital form that most people would enjoy art and science for a whole life. All creative works should be free for everyone while their intellectual property must be protected.
If intelligent species ever fail in survival, it’s only because they haven’t got enough time to become intelligent enough. Let’s start intelligent revolutions sooner than later.

Only Few days ahead to catch you all at Stockholm+50,
Climate Action campaign Tracker (CACT) is a Capacity Building theme where we track youth, community, local government, stakeholders to connect them in order to action of Climate Action. CACT is a program by which we (YFB) identify people are committed and enthusiastic regarding environment and climate change. By tracking and connecting them through our campaign; we share ideas and initiatives that can prepare the whole nation to face the climate war.
Dear participant let me share the program CACT with you

In a series of articles leading up to Stockholm+50, the youth movement ReGeneration 2030 cover youth activists with clear demands on world leaders to solve the ecological crisis. The “stubborn optimist” Maija Kuivalainen from Finland wants to change the root cause of the crisis - the rotten economic system. According to her, today’s swear words such as degrowth have to become the norm.