🌎 Empower Tomorrow, Shape Today

🌿 Climate Action is the Right Way

🌎 Empower Tomorrow, Shape Today 🌿 Climate Action is the Right Way

GLOBAL DIALOGUES PROJECT

The Global Dialogues Project (GDP) is a 13-month international initiative designed to create learning and exchange opportunities for youth-led climate organizations from both the Global South and Global North.

Each year, the GDP centers around a specific theme related to climate justice — offering expert-led sessions, cross-regional collaboration, and advocacy planning in the lead-up to the annual UNFCCC COP. The project typically engages 8–12 organizations in a process of co-learning, co-creation, and collective policy action.

PROJECT GOALS

Through the GDP, participants strengthen their technical knowledge and strategic capacity in:

  • The UNFCCC and international climate policy systems

  • Climate negotiations and diplomacy

  • Rights-based and intersectional advocacy

  • Human rights and environmental justice frameworks

  • The global climate governance architecture

KEY OUTCOMES

  1. National and Global Visions
    Participating organizations articulate climate visions that reflect the lived realities of their regions and communities — and co-develop positions for global advocacy.

  2. Youth Dialogues & Agendas
    Youth-led national dialogues are facilitated, leading to national-level climate agendas and statements rooted in local demands.

  3. COP & Policy Engagement
    Participants attend the UNFCCC COP and other international climate summits to present their agendas and advocate for inclusive, youth-led solutions.

PROJECT VISION

The Global Dialogues Project envisions a world where:

  • Youth voices from both the Global South and Global North inform and shape global climate negotiations.

  • Bottom-up national and global youth agendas are taken seriously in decision-making spaces.

  • Inclusive, strategic, and effective cross-cultural collaboration becomes the norm in climate action.

PROJECT HISTORY

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Structure of the Project

Capacity Building Sessions

The project starts with 6-8 online Capacity Building sessions about the specific topic of the year. During these sessions, expert speakers from around the world are given a stage to deliver the required knowledge to the participants. This is an important phase of the project, because based on these sessions the participating youth-organisations will be able to host their own National Youth Dialogue.

National Youth Dialogue Bangladesh

In the year 2024, our Network Member YouthNet organized as part of the Global Dialogues Project a National Youth Dialogue in the city of Dhaka. Youth from all over the country came together to provide input for the National Youth Climate Agenda on the topic of climate justice!