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🌎 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

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

The Global Dialogues Project brings youth from the Global North and Global South together to co-learn, co-create, and co-advocate for climate justice.
In 2025, the project focuses on Nature-Based Solutions (NbS) through expert-led capacity-building sessions, youth dialogues in each country, and collaborative advocacy planning and implementation — all leading to policy engagement at COP30, supported by We Are Tomorrow Global Partners.
Duration: 13 months — December 2024 → December 2025
Timeline:
- Dec – Mar: Internal planning and onboarding
- Mar – May: Capacity-building on climate justice (UNFCCC, negotiation, advocacy, intersectionality, human rights, climate science)
- Jun – Aug: National youth dialogues and drafting agendas / international report contributions
- Sep – Nov: Advocacy planning and implementation, COP29 preparation
- Dec: Review, reflection and next steps
Theme: Nature-Based Solutions
Participants:
- CEUS — Chile
- Jóvenes por el Clima — Argentina
- Climate Forward Pakistan — Pakistan
- Youth Sustainable Development Network — Nigeria
- PUSH — Sweden
- Umbrella — Georgia
- Gutta Club — Moldova
- Organisation for the Promotion of Ecoclubs — Portugal
Key Outcomes:
- 8 National Youth Dialogues
- 8 Position Papers / Reports addressing NbS within each national context
- 8 Youth Advocates at COP30, one per country, advancing their agendas in global climate negotiations
Duration: 13 months — December 2023 → December 2024
Theme: Climate Justice
The Global Dialogues Project (GDP) brings youth from different regions to co-learn, co-create, and co-advocate for climate justice.
In 2024, the cohort focused on climate justice through expert capacity-building, national youth dialogues in each country, and joint advocacy planning and implementation, culminating in policy engagement at COP29, supported by We Are Tomorrow Global Partners.
Participants:
- Turkey — Yeni Dünya Vakfı
- Nigeria — Earthplus Sustainability Network
- Nepal — Nepalese Youth for Climate Action
- Slovenia — No Excuse Slovenia
- Armenia — Yeghvard NGO
- Yemen — Sahseh Platform
- Bangladesh — Magic Board School
- Portugal — Organisation for the Promotion of Ecoclubs
Key Outcomes:
- 8 national youth dialogues, one in each participating country
- Youth-led agendas and a joint output in consolidated international report.
- Global South ↔ Global North exchanges, with reciprocal travel to attend dialogues and co-develop outputs
- All organizations supported to attend COP29 to advocate their agendas and represent their communities’ voices

Press here for to see the published Agendas!

Structure of the Project

1. Internal Planning

The planning process will begin alongside the other project, in order to be able to fully map and evaluate the human, knowledge, and economic capacities of WAT-GP.
2. Application Process

WAT-GP posts the call for Network Members to apply. The WAT-GP coordinators will make decisions regarding which organisations to prioritise for that year.
3. Onboarding

The participants will be informed on all important matters of how the program will run, the calendar, the guidelines and rules, as well as what to expect from WAT-GP.
4. Capacity Building

The Capacity Building sessions are lead by the T&R team. Participants will attend different sessions with experts who will share their expertise and knowledge with them.
5. National Youth Dialogues

The Participants organise their National Youth Dialogues. Reaching out to diplomatic and strategic supporters is also part of this stage.
6. Agenda Writing

With the input obtained from the National Youth Dialogues, the NYCA will be developed. This will be a crucial tool to advocate with towards national and international stakeholders.
7. COP Advocacy

Participants will start preparing their COP Strategy. When possible, the Participants will be financially supported to attend COP as observers and implement their strategies.
8. Review and Reflection

After the project, evaluations will be hold with the Participants in order to learn about the successes and challenges of the project and its implementations.

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!