Open-Ended Working Group-4 on the Post-2020 GBF
The Fourth meeting of the Open-ended Working Group on the Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework took place from 21st to 26th June 2022. The meeting was convened to prepare for developing the post-2020 global biodiversity framework. The negotiating process sought to culminate the adoption of a post-2020 global biodiversity framework by the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)…
Inger Andersen (Executive Director, UNEP): “Bring Ecology into the Houses of Worship and Houses of Worship Into UNEA”
The delegation of the Catholic Youth Network for Environmental Sustainability in Africa (CYNESA) at the resumed session of the Fifth United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA 5.2) took part in a dialogue with the Executive Director for the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), Mrs. Inger Andersen
Young People Feature Predominantly at the High-Level Ministerial Segment of the AMCEN
Yesterday, in Durban, South Africa, the Ministers of Environment and other delegates including those from the African Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) participated in the high-level ministerial segment of the Seventeenth Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). In the meeting where incessant reference to the youth…
UNEA 4 Beautiful and Diversified!
In all forums I participated in, my perspective of the youth lacking voices was changed. This is because I came to understand that in most of the forums available, the youth are only interested in those that will earn them a living, which is disheartening. If the church is ready…
Reflections of a First-Time Attendee to the Fourth edition of UNEA
From early morning Major Groups briefings to late evening deliberations, and from attending various side events to listening attentively to country-specific national statements! The first week was characterized by the Major Group (7-8 March); and The UN Science-Policy Business Forum on the environment (8-10 March)… a moment of darkness overshadowed and dampened…
CYNESA's Mission is to offer the platform through which young Catholics across Africa, respond to the twin challenges of Environmental Degradation and Climate Change, from the perspective of Catholic social teaching on care for creation, paying attention to the most vulnerable.