OPINIONISTA: Don’t neglect our biggest asset in the climate crisis battle — our youth

Sweden’s Greta Thunberg and Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate have shown that age is not a limiting factor when it comes to climate activism. Although political intervention, global climate targets and policy changes are crucial, there is an energy and urgency that youthful passion brings to the crisis, driving awareness and leading to action.

But in our experience as the creators and implementers of a national youth green initiative, our learners are innovative and creative enough to tackle some of the environmental challenges they face in their communities when they are given the right kind of guidance and input. We’ve learnt that “green leads to green [money]” – taking care of the planet can create jobs. But there are too few that connect environmental opportunity with job creation. There has to be an incentive to want to do better, and we’ve identified through our programme that accepting environmental responsibility leads to financial opportunity.

Our programme is one of the few in the country that empowers learners to learn and engage about the climate crisis, and how to mitigate and adapt against it – but we need greater participation between organisations such as ourselves, government and the private sector to maximise impact.

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