The Philippines’ Youth Entrepreneurship
Machakos Clean Energy Revolution is a
Act provides entrepreneurship and
clean energy project implemented by 60
financial literacy training as mechanisms
parents and graduates of the Jitegemee
to facilitate youth entrepreneurship.
Children’s Program in Kenya.
UNDP and ILO are exploring a partnership
Guides Solar Power and Sustainable
to build strong links between climate and
Development is a GEF-funded project
youth employment. For example, UNDP’s
focused on providing renewable energy
NDC Support Program, in collaboration
to the Girl Guides Association, an
with ILO, is piloting a project to measure
organization servicing female youths in
social and employment impacts of NDC
the Bahamas.
policies in Zimbabwe and Nigeria. Youth representatives have been actively involved in this process. The group Student Energy is developing a Global Youth Energy Outlook for launch in 2021 in an
ENERGY AND TRANSPORT
entirely youth-led research project.
In Barbados, a secondary school with 1,100 students implemented a biodiesel project to raise awareness among
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fuel for diesel vehicles. The school club
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collected used vegetable oil from homes and handed these over to the Sole Proprietorship, who produced biodiesel and glycerin from the oil and paid the school club for each bottle sold.
Are you engaged in your community in the fight against climate change? July 2020; Standing up for climate change at #COP24, November 2018; Youth voices on environmental issues for Aarhus Convention June 2018; Climate change for UN Committee on the Rights of the Child September 2016. 2 Including Unless we act now, An Environment Fit for Children, Are Climate Change Policies Child- Sensitive?
NDC PARTNERSHIP
environmentally-friendly alternative
youth about the use of biodiesel as an
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