UNICEF-MERI alliance for environmental education
For environmental education and training of young people to ensure their participation, that they are heard and taken into account.
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The climate emergency is one of the greatest challenges of our time, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean. Environmental education and young people training to ensure their meaningful participation, that they are heard and taken into account, are essential elements to achieve a regional commitment.
Therefore, UNICEF and MERI have signed an alliance in favor of environmental education and thus contribute together to ensure that voices of children, adolescents and young people are heard, to be trained and to be part of the solutions to climate change.
Since signing of the collaboration agreement between MERI Foundation and UNICEF in July 2021, the UNICEF Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean (LACRO) and the UNICEF Country Offices in Argentina, Cuba, Ecuador, Honduras and Peru, with the support of MERI Foundation, have implemented a large number of actions to achieve results for children and youth on climate change and the environment.
Joint actions
Young activists who represented the region at the 2nd Conference on Scientific Evidence and Public Policy: Climate Change in the Americas
Declaration of young leaders in climate action in Latin America and the Caribbean
More information here (in Spanish).
Youth from Latin America and the Caribbean call for environmental education and effective participation in decision making
Developed resources
Community handbook on inclusive disaster risk reduction management
More information here (in Spanish).
De las palabras a la acción: El rol de las personas jóvenes en la acción climática
More information here (in Spanish).
In social media