Monday 10 June 2024
Panel
Facing Climate Overshoot Risks: Youth Lead the Response
Session co-organized with the Climate Overshoot Commission.
The risk of overshooting the 1.5°C warming goal of the Paris Agreement is looming, posing severe threats to younger generations’ health, food security, water availability, or migration patterns, among many other risks. The Climate Overshoot Commission put forward an integrated strategy—the CARE Agenda—focusing on Cutting emissions, Adaptation, carbon dioxide Removal, and solar radiation modification Exploration. Young people’s perspective is pivotal to enrich, critically envision and support the implementation of the CARE Agenda to address overshoot risks. As temperatures near the overshoot threshold and reach 1.45°C, urgency demands greater space for youth-driven solutions. This session aims at elevating those youth perspectives, particularly from countries with lower emissions and high climate risks, to discuss crucial systemic changes needed to halt overshoot, covering mitigation and adaptation challenges, and exploring emerging technologies' risks and benefits.
Shirmai Chung
Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission
Speaker
Louise Mabulo
Member of the Youth Engagement Group, Climate Overshoot Commission
Speaker
Anita Soina
Global Youth Champion for UN Hosted Sanitation and Water for All
Speaker
Roberto Hernández Juárez
Climate Activist-Researcher, Founder of Youth Building The Future Global (YBTFG)
Speaker
Pascal Lamy
Vice President, Paris Peace Forum
Moderator
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