{"id":10691,"date":"2020-08-17T08:08:05","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T05:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=10691"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:12","slug":"why-african-youth-matter-in-global-environmental-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/08\/17\/why-african-youth-matter-in-global-environmental-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Why African Youth Matter in Global Environmental Discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year, August 12 \u00a0marks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/development\/desa\/youth\/iyd2020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">International Youth Day<\/a>, with this year\u2019s theme being Youth engagement for Global Action. Here,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Queen_Sylvia_of_Buganda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sylvia Nagginda<\/a>, the Nnabagereka (Queen) of Buganda,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/vanessa_vash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Vanessa Nakate<\/a>, a Ugandan climate change activist and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/people\/musonda-mumba\">Musonda Mumba<\/a>, Head of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Terrestrial Unit, reflect on some of the initiatives that are ensuring youth voices are heard in environmental decision-making.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The year 2020 has seen the world grapple with an unprecedented global pandemic as the climate crisis looms on. The impact of these is being felt across the African continent, especially by women, children and youth. Many parts of Africa have suffered extreme weather events such as floods and droughts, which disrupt lives and livelihoods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The world\u2019s youngest countries \u2013 in terms of the average age of the population \u2013 are in sub-Saharan Africa, according to the United Nations\u2019&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/population.un.org\/wpp\/Publications\/Files\/WPP2017_KeyFindings.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">World Population Prospects 2019<\/a>. The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nnabagereka.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nnabageraka\u2019s Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;focuses on bringing the voice of Uganda\u2019s youth to the forefront of global issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Established twenty years ago, the foundation embodies the philosophy of&nbsp;<em>Obuntubulamu<\/em>&nbsp;(similar to&nbsp;<em>Ubuntu<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 \u201chumanity towards others\u201d).&nbsp;It encourages young people to anchor themselves in the idea of community rather than individualism, training them on societal engagement, environmental and economic issues, so they can become champions of sustainable development.&nbsp;The foundation works closely with UNEP&nbsp;and other UN agencies.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unenvironment.org\/news-and-stories\/blogpost\/why-african-youth-matter-global-environmental-discourse\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, August 12 \u00a0marks\u00a0International Youth Day, with this year\u2019s theme being Youth engagement for Global Action. Here,\u00a0Sylvia Nagginda, the Nnabagereka (Queen) of Buganda,\u00a0Vanessa Nakate, a Ugandan climate change activist&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}