Academy for Global Youth Leadership Empowerment (AGYLE)

ACADEMY FOR GREEN YOUTH LEADERSHIP EMPOWERMENT (AGYLE)

AGYLE offers a holistic training programme (face-to-face training,practical activities, mentoring, online trainings) to youth stakeholders,directly or indirectly engaged with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) process with the objective of empowering youth on green economy, climate change, climate finance to facilitate youth-led climate action.

While the concept of youth training focusing on green economy and climate related matters is not a novel concept – several initiatives are already involved in youth engagement – there exists a huge opportunity to learn from these initiatives and form a collaborative platform to bring together youth stakeholders in the UNFCCC process. In doing so, the project can leverage and strengthen youth connections while avoiding duplication of effort. The objective of this academy is to build upon and add value to existing youth engagement frameworks that would empower youth to participate in and promote the green economy and the climate action agenda by engaging with the UNFCCC processes at the global, regional and national levels.

Areas of Training:

1. Explaining key elements of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the role of climate action in the broader context of sustainable development.
2. Identifying & articulating the interrelations and interdependencies between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in five critical dimensions of Sustainable Development: People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace and Partnership.
3. Identifying and executing best practices to ensure coherence and mutual reinforcement between the Paris Agreement on Climate Change and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
4. Explaining existing tools and instruments to mainstream sustainable development and climate action into national development policies and planning.

Key Outcomes

TTrain youth from different stakeholder groups on key aspects of green economy and climate change.

TImprove the support of youth to global green economy and climate action efforts including aspects related to finance, technology and capacity-building.