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THE YOUTH Open Dialogues on Climate Change is an international project which brings together stakeholders to create a meaningful dialogue on the climate crisis. This has been done on a regional, national and international level, with a final summing up event at Cop26 in Glasgow. The regional body responsible for initiating the dialogues in Africa is the African Network of Young Leaders for Peace and Sustainable Development. Our writer Dominic Naidoo spoke to the team who put together the inaugural Open Dialogues on Climate Change event for South Africa. This is who they are and what they had to say.
BY DOMINIC NAIDOO
SHAMIELA REID Reid has a background in environmental science, sociology and gender studies and is the Country coordinator for the 16th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth. “Young people are key stakeholders in South Africa’s climate change response and just energy transition. They will not only inherit the decisions taken today but also implement them going forward.”
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