YOUNGO is the official Children and Youth Constituency of the UNFCCC (YOUTH + NGO = YOUNGO). It’s a network of youth organisations and individuals who get involved with international climate change policies and actions within the UNFCCC and the UN.
YOUNGO consists of many youth-led organizations, groups, delegations, and individuals working in climate change-related fields. YOUNGO is organized in different Working Groups that focus on different aspects of the UNFCCC negotiations and beyond, and work to ensure that perspectives of young and future generations are taken into account in the international decision-making processes. Besides that, YOUNGO members observe and report on climate negotiations and the implications of their outcomes.
YOUNGO is one of the nine Civil Society Constituencies of the UNFCCC. It is a network of children and youth organisations, groups, and individuals who identify themselves as children or youth below the age of 35 years. YOUNGO is by youth, with youth, for youth.
UNFCCC stands for United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
The UNFCCC secretariat (UN Climate Change) is the United Nations entity tasked with supporting
the global response to the threat of climate change. The Convention has near universal membership (197 Parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement.
The main aim of the Paris Agreement is to keep the global average temperature rise this century as close as possible to 1.5
degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
The UNFCCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
The ultimate objective of all three agreements under the UNFCCC is to stabilize greenhouse
gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that will prevent dangerous human interference with the climate system,
in a time frame which allows ecosystems to adapt naturally and enables sustainable development.
