Young people demonstrate initiative during crises
Youth groups in Satkhira have been at the forefront of supporting the impoverished, climate-vulnerable communities and building their adaptive capacities and resilience.
Marking the 5th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, the High Level Climate Champions launched of Race To Resilience — the sibling campaign to Race To Zero — at the UN-convened Climate Ambition Summit.
At the Summit, Zakiatu Sesay, a community leader from Freetown, Sierra Leone, said: “I’m here to launch the Race To Resilience through which the High-level Champions aim to catalyse action from non-state actors to help make 4 billion people from vulnerable groups and communities, like me, more climate resilient by 2030.”
The campaign sets out to catalyse a step-change in global ambition for climate resilience, putting people and nature first in pursuit of a resilient world where we don’t just survive climate shocks and stresses but thrive in spite of them.
Led by the High-Level Climate Champions for Climate Action – Nigel Topping and Gonzalo Muñoz – Race To Resilience aims:
Through a partnership of initiatives, the campaign will focus on helping frontline communities to build resilience and adapt to impacts of climate change, such as extreme heat, drought, flooding and sea-level rise.
Join the Race To Resilience
Non-state actor-led regional, national or global networks and initiatives are now welcome to join the Race To Resilience.
Initiatives must agree with the vision and goals of the Race To Resilience, and meet the criteria:
To register your interest please fill out this form and send it to resilience@climatechampions.team
For more information on the criteria, please see here.
Please note that individual companies, NGOs or organizations are not able to join the Race To Resilience on their own, but can through the approved partner initiatives. These will be live from 25 January 2021 after launching at the Climate Adaptation Summit.
Youth groups in Satkhira have been at the forefront of supporting the impoverished, climate-vulnerable communities and building their adaptive capacities and resilience.
From Peru to Indonesia, climate vulnerable people have acted to cope with climate change and build community resilience to natural hazards.
Over the past decades, few concepts have gained such prominence as resilience, but the content has often lacked a clear definition.