Our Focus
Youth4Climate: Powering Action
Youth, Innovation and Climate Change
Youth4Climate: Powering Action brings together existing and new online and offline resources, tools, capacities, partnerships, networks, and movements by and for youth, with a strong focus on implementation, for more sustained impact on climate on the ground.
Objectives:
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Boost youth-led and youth-inclusive climate action on the ground by strengthening the identification and support of concrete and innovative youth-led solutions and nurturing a vibrant ecosystem for youth at all levels.
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Sustain meaningful and long-term engagement with and for youth, by making possible the generation and exchange of knowledge, opportunities, experiences, and resources in a new global virtual space.
Energy Portfolio
RENEWABLLE ENERGY ACCESS
The Energy Portfolio focusses on the promotion of renewable energy access, with particular attention to the African context in coordination with the UNDP global initiative for renewable energy.
The Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have started to work together to contribute to the achievement of SDG 7. Meeting the UN-Energy’s ambitious objective to bring clean, reliable, and affordable energy access to 500 million people by 2025 and responding to the 2021 High-level Dialogue on Energy, UNDP and the Italian Government will work together to assist countries unlock finance to scale up the diffusion of off-grid energy solutions and other effective clean and sustainable solutions.
Geographical focus: In the initial phase, the partnership will focus on a set of 8 countries: Algeria, Nigeria, Zambia, Kenya, Rwanda, Comoros, Mozambique, and Eswatini. Starting from these target countries the partnership will aim at fostering partnership and synergies at the regional level.