First Open Ended Working Group on the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
The strategic plan for biodiversity 2011-2020 adopted in Nagoya, Japan during COP 10 in 2010 is expected to expire as the decade is already over. This necessitated the recent COP 14 meeting in Egypt to debate on coming up with a design process towards the adoption of the post 2020…
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…
The African Civil Society Group meets with the UNEP Director of Governance Affairs
Right after the opening of the 17th Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN), which is taking place at the Olive Convention Centre in Durban, South Africa, the African Civil Society Group held a meeting with the Director of Governing Affairs at the UN Environment Programme (UNEP),…
CYNESA at the Regional Multi-Stakeholder Consultation Meeting for Africa in Preparation for the AMCEN in Durban, SA
Between 9th and 10th November 2019, about 57 representatives of different Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) comprising mainly of the Major Groups and Stakeholders (MGS) to the UN Environment Programme held a 2-day consultative meeting ahead of the Seventeenth Regular Session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN). The…
CYNESA at the Southern African Faith Communities’ Faith Policy Conference
More than 50 faith leaders representing over 10 faith communities congregated at the eMseni Christian Centre in Gauteng, Johannesburg, South Africa from 5th-7th November to develop policy
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.