Youth Environment Assembly 2025

Youth advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet

UNEP Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

November 29-30 & December 7, 2025

3 Event Days
500+ Participants
70+ Countries
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About the Youth Environment Assembly

The Youth Environment Assembly (YEA) is the largest global gathering of youth advocating for environmental action within the UN Environment Programme. Organized by CYMG, YEA serves as the official youth forum leading up to the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA), ensuring meaningful youth engagement in its processes and decision-making.

The 2024 Youth Environment Assembly brought together over 450 youth delegates, with $200,000 raised to support 250 in-person participants, including 50 international and 200 local delegates.

In line with the UNEA-7 theme of "Advancing sustainable solutions for a resilient planet", the YEA has three core objectives:

Youth Advocacy in UNEA-7

Ensure meaningful youth participation in UNEA, including policy discussions and decision-making, while advancing youth-led priorities like the Global Youth Declaration.

Capacity Building

Equip youth with the knowledge and skills to engage in UNEA-7 through advocacy workshops, policy training, and position-building sessions.

Collaboration & Network-Building

Strengthen global collaboration, movement-building, and partnerships between youth, policymakers, and stakeholders.

YEA Agenda

09:00 - 09:45 (GMT+3)

Arrival & Registration

Delegates arrive and complete registration.

09:45 - 11:15 (GMT+3)

S.1 Opening Plenary

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  • Constituency updates on achievements towards UNEA-7
  • Updates on post UNEA-6 resolution engagement
  • Updates on regional forums
  • Any structural changes in constituency, P&P
  • Short capacity-building
  • Overview of YEA & UNEA-7 processes

11:15 - 11:30 (GMT+3)

Coffee Break

11:30 - 13:00 (GMT+3)

S.2 Reforming the Multilateral Environmental Architecture

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High-level plenary session taking stock of challenges in today's environmental governance system and opportunities for reform.

13:00 - 14:00 (GMT+3)

Lunch & Networking

14:00 - 15:30 (GMT+3)

Parallel Sessions

S.3 Financing the Future: Reform for the SDGs

Exploring how the financial system should be reformed to facilitate environmental action.

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S.4 Generation Restoration

Youth-led ecosystem restoration for repairing nature and sustainable communities.

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15:30 - 16:00 (GMT+3)

Parallel Sessions

S.5 Children and Youth Rights in Environmental Governance
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S.6 Protecting the Stratosphere: Next Steps for Ozone and Climate Protection

Exploring the present and future of the Montreal Protocol and Kigali Amendment.

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16:00 - 16:15 (GMT+3)

Coffee Break

16:15 - 17:30 (GMT+3)

Consultations on UNEA-7 draft resolutions

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Interactive breakout session to collect inputs on resolutions and finalize CYMG positions.

17:30 - 18:00 (GMT+3)

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