What Kazakh Youth Can Bring to Tackle Climate Issues

I had the distinction to characterize Kazakhstan on the seventeenth UN Youth Convention on Local weather Change (COY17), held in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, the place younger folks from all around the world got here along with one objective – to make the planet a greater place for all of us. 

Ayaulym Sarybayeva

Younger changemakers from 140 nations gathered to alternate concepts and share experiences on how they’re engaged on this concern of their nations and communities to avoid wasting the Earth on Nov. 2-4.

Younger persons are the long run brokers of change. Due to this fact, the COY17 convention bolstered the capability constructing of younger folks. They discovered about inexperienced financial system and waste administration, water shortage, international meals safety, and renewable power. Additionally they discovered from representatives of worldwide organizations methods to interact younger folks in local weather motion.  

As well as, the convention allowed individuals to enter a multinational atmosphere via intercultural alternate, thus creating an open house for expressing concepts and discussing tradition. We now have seen that the world will get smaller and cozier once we peacefully collect and talk about what is important for younger individuals who demand motion, not guarantees or phrases.

The most important impression of the convention was attending to know like-minded folks worldwide and realizing that you’re not alone on the way in which to fixing international issues. Individuals exchanged concepts and mentioned attainable methods to collaborate for a sustainable future. It’s aspiring to be taught extra about totally different pupil and youth organizations for local weather motion in different nations. Some have constructed an academic platform, and others engaged younger folks via social media. 

As a content material creator and digital neighborhood builder, I try to lift consciousness amongst younger folks from Central Asia by introducing them to vital matters, public lectures, and supplies. I’m impressed to behave, train others and have interaction youth in constructing a greater future for one another. 

Paticipants of the seventeenth UN Youth Convention on Local weather Change (COY17) held in Sharm el-Sheikh.

Why ought to Kazakh youth interact in local weather motion?

Younger folks have countless potential to create revolutionary options that is probably not a precedence for his or her authorities. Due to this fact, younger persons are the first brokers of change in constructing a sustainable future, as they would be the ones who will make the businesses of the long run and maintain positions of accountability.

Constructing a sustainable future should begin with schooling and consciousness of the challenges going through our area and the world. However, first, we should work to coach aware youth and provides younger folks the proper values. Ecology classes needs to be launched into the varsity curriculum, or no less than particular classes needs to be offered to all college students of colleges and universities. 

As an educational nomad who has lived in a number of Western nations, together with Glasgow, Scotland, the place COP26 passed off final 12 months, and the Scandinavian nations, I’ve come to consider that educating habits contribute to folks’s day by day actions and their relation to our planet. However this isn’t essentially restricted to the actions of people but additionally to the political will of the federal government to deal with the issue and work in direction of sustainability. So younger folks also needs to attain out to native authorities to make their voices heard and name for actual motion.

To satisfy their wants, we want extra representatives of ladies and rural areas, these most affected by local weather issues. We should acknowledge that local weather change will have an effect on the lives of each particular person, and it might be too late if we don’t give it due significance.

Alone we are able to convey a distinction, however solely collectively we are able to change the world. 

The textual content of the youth assertion could be discovered right here. 

The writer is Ayaulym Sarybayeva, a 23-year-old pupil of the South European Research Erasmus Mundus Worldwide Joint Grasp’s Programme within the U.Ok., Spain, and France. Her principal research space is Politics and Society in Southern Europe, the Arab World, and the Mediterranean.