The event was held on Friday, 15 October. You can leave your email below to get the recording.

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🧍🏼‍♀️🧍🏽‍♂️Youth want climate action,  
🌎Climate action requires climate finance,  
💪Climate funds are key players in mobilizing climate finance  

The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) has been working on a consultation note called “Towards a Youth Engagement Strategy (YES)”, a youth-led document that aims to provide recommendations for how the CIF can better engage and support young people. This event is part of an ongoing dialogue with youth for incorporating more voices into the consultation note, by hearing from youth groups who have reviewed the latest draft of the note.

Youth engagement is about climate justice and intergenerational equity- the ambition of climate action taken today will directly impact their entire lives going forward. Youth can be an integral part of mobilizing climate finance and their advocacy can play a key role in the magnitude of climate finance commitments.

This makes it imperative to support young people in gaining a better understanding, capacity, and agency to engage in climate finance. However, there remains a huge potential for climate finance to better engage and benefit young people. Climate funds like the CIF are well placed to address this challenge, by not only building the capacity of young people in climate finance but also helping the process to ensure that priority needs, and voices of young people are considered when investments are made today- investment and infrastructure that today’s young people will live with for their adult lives. This event- and the consultation note- is a step in that direction, and part of CIF's broader ambition towards engagement with young people.

Youth invitees (comments will also be gathered from the audience):
Olumide Idowu, Director of Communications, African Youth Initiative on Climate Change  
Arshak Makichyan, Climate Activist and Member, Fridays for Future, Russia  
Bruno Rodriquez, Co-Founder, Jovenes Por El Clima  
Anish Shrestha, Asia Regional Focal Point, UN Global Indigenous Youth Caucus  
Ariane Desrosiers and Nikhil Kamath, Core Team members, Asian Environmental Youth Network