She Leads: COP30 Youth Declaration
This group of young climate change activists are committed to addressing the urgent challenges posed to girls and young women by climate change at COP30.
Image credit: André Arruda, with the support of AI image generation software Midjourney.
We are the She Leads1 Climate Cohort for Climate ACTion, a group of passionate girls and young women from East Africa (Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya), West Africa (Ghana, Mali, Sierra Leone, Liberia) and the Middle East (Lebanon, Jordan).
We are committed to addressing the urgent challenges posed to girls and young women by climate change.
With this Youth Declaration, we are representing the voices of thousands of girls and young women from our countries.
It’s time to act now!
“Whenever you cut trees, whenever you leak wastes, whenever you do
Ilham, Ethiopia, 20.
constructions, whenever you burn fossils, whenever you spoil the lakes, remember
us girls and children. We will keep on facing higher rates of violence, starvation,
dropouts, displacement, miss on opportunities and in the worst case be left to
die.”
It is time to act now! Because we witness DAILY that climate change is disproportionately affecting us, girls and young women and marginalised communities, exacerbating existing inequalities.
Despite contributing the least to climate change, girls and young women bear the brunt of its impacts facing increased risks of displacement, health, loss of education, early marriage and gender based violence.
As we approach the COP30 climate negotiations, it is our mission to advocate for inclusive and gender- and age- responsive climate finance, processes and policies that empower, resource and acknowledge us, girls and young women, as key stakeholders in climate action, climate finance, and in all climate policies.
Read our recommendations for COP30 on climate finance, gender and inclusion and climate adaptation in our 2025 Declaration.
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