The Challenge
There is no doubt that today’s youth will bear a larger burden from climate change over the course of their lives than today’s adults. However, despite their considerable investment in the outcome of climate-related choices, youth rarely have equal access to decision-making spaces, funding, or other resources that could help them to play an active role on climate change.
Our Solutions
In 2013, Global Greengrants Fund launched a new advisory board, a mechanism for identifying grantees and awarding funding to grassroots activists. The Next Generation Climate Board brings together a group of accomplished climate activists, all under 30, to recommend grants and provide mentorship to young people pursuing cutting-edge climate change initiatives worldwide. This board is the first of its kind in the world funding youth-led action on climate change.
Youth are innovative and creative. But far more important than this is our willingness to change our way of doing things, our readiness to challenge the conventional, and our understanding that we are in this for the long haul.
– Next Generation Climate Board advisor Winnie Asiti
Ekai Nabenyo Takes a Stand Against Climate Change in Northern Kenya
Ekai Nabenyo is teaching his pastoralist community in northern Kenya how to cope with scarce water and spiking temperatures, made worse by oil and gas companies. He’s part of a growing global movement of young climate activists taking a stand against the climate crisis.
