Grantee Highlight
Youth-Centered Climate Movements
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In 2024, Global Greengrants made 669 grants in 91 countries totaling $5.63M to youth-centered climate movements through the Next Generation Climate Board (NGCB) and across the advisory network.
For more than a decade, Global Greengrants has made grants at the intersection of youth and climate. Youth are the roots of the climate justice movement—their contributions are critical in ensuring movements thrive and future leaders’ voices are included now.
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Global Greengrants supported many powerful youth-led and youth-serving climate groups around the world in 2024. A few highlights of this work include:
- ABRAKADABRA created written materials, a socio-environmental film club and reading circles, and performances to educate and empower gender diverse youth in Tláhuac, Mexico. These efforts helped push back against sexual and gender discrimination and protect local ecosystems from the threats of industrialization and climate crisis impacts.
- Festival Internacional de cine de Fusagasugá (FICFUSA) hosted audiovisual and storytelling workshops with the rural youth of Sumapaz, Colombia to articulate social and environmental challenges of the region, including gender inequality, unemployment, environmental degradation, river contamination, and more. Creative engagement with difficult topics supported youth capacity to tell their own stories, advocate for the rights and health of their community, and envision alternative futures.
- League of Queens International Empowerment hosted a town hall on gender and social inclusion in local natural resource governance processes in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria, a region where women are excluded from decision-making about resources, despite their critical role in using those resources to cook and manage households. The town hall increased local women’s knowledge of climate change and its impact on the region’s resources, increased their capacity to advocate within the community, and promoted inclusive community decision-making processes.
- Siasi ʻo Tonga Tauʻatāina To’u Tupu Vaini trained youth in the village of Vaini, Tonga on innovative farming techniques such as raised bed gardening, tower gardens, and greenhouses. These trainings supported crop diversification, increased yields and food security in the face of recent environmental challenges, and supported long-term sustainability and self-reliance.
Support for youth-led groups is key to building stronger climate movements—when we support youth, we invest in the future and expand what’s possible today.