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Youth panel at ECOSOC urges youth-led solutions to Africa’s water and climate crisis
Summary
At the ECOSOC Youth Forum SDG Media Zone, youth leaders from the UN Secretary-General’s Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change and the African Diaspora Youth Hub said climate impacts on water, health and education require youth-driven, financeable adaptation projects that create jobs and protect common goods.
A panel at the United Nations’ ECOSOC Youth Forum on climate and the Sustainable Development Goals urged youth-led approaches to water security and climate adaptation, arguing that local solutions and new financing must center young people.
Eugenia Boateng, founder and executive director of the African Diaspora Youth Hub, described a solar-panel project in rural Tanzania that lit a secondary-school library and illustrated how lack of electricity and water harms education and menstrual health. "Without light, you're not able to learn properly," Boateng said, linking energy access to learning outcomes and to broader health and sanitation problems she encountered during a visit to a rural…
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