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On the shoulders of Giants

The environment and action on climate change lost three highly experienced and hugely talented champions in October 2023, in Saleemul Huq, John Vidal & Pete Betts. But the work that they did will endure, and the remarkable new generations of climate activists will benefit from it as they take up the baton and run the next relays.

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COP28: The Final Text

COP28 has concluded with the signing of the “UAE Consensus”. What is included in this final text and what does it mean?

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The Production Gap: A Key Challenge for COP28

On 8 November 2023, the Stockholm Environment Institute, E3G, International Institute for Sustainable Development and UNEP published “The Production Gap: Phasing down or phasing up? Top fossil fuel producers plan ever more extraction despite climate promises.”

Read about this important intervention here.

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Mock Education Minister’s Summit Held

On the 12th & 13th August our friends at MOCK COP held a Mock Education Minister’s Summit, resulting in a Youth Statement on Quality Climate Education. The statement represents the first ever unified youth definition of quality climate education.

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Upcoming Biodiversity & Climate Film

We are working on our third film, on Biodiversity and Climate Change, and plan to have it made in time for COP28, but almost as important, we are keen to contact youth climate groups who may be interested in showing it and discussing it with their members, so if that includes you, please get in touch!

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What happened at the Bonn Climate Talks?

Two weeks of climate talks were held in Bonn, Germany, concluding on 15 June 2023, as part of the preparation for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28) due to take place in Dubai, UAE from 30 November to 12 December 2023. Find our summary here.

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Held v State of Montana

In this very significant case, which has now gone to trial, and is being closely followed especially in U.S. legal circles, 16 young people from the U.S. State of Montana are bringing a legal challenge against their State government, saying that it is failing to deliver the promise in the State’s constitution for a right to a clean and healthy environment. It is one of the first real tests in a court of law of the constitutional right to a clean and healthy environment and will test the extent measurable impacts of climate change can be legally attributed to individual states.

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UN 2023 Water Conference - an Interview with Clara Brown

In March 2023 the United Nations convened 10,000 participants in a landmark conference on water and SDG 6 - Clean Water and Sanitation. We wanted to find out more about the participation by young people in the critical debates on water and SDG 6, so we managed to contact Clara Brown, the Contact Point for the YOUNGO Water and Climate Working Group, who kindly answered some of our questions.

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