What we want

The Youth Manifesto on Climate Change

The Youth Climate Manifesto presents a unified youth vision for climate action, structured around 11 key demands:

The Youth Manifesto has the following objectives:

Set forth a number of demands that are mission critical to ensuring structural and institutional change to addressing the climate crisis in Nigeria from a youth perspective.
Encourage the Nigerian government to devise strategies and invest in programs and initiatives aimed at reducing the impact of the climate crisis, and steer Nigeria’s economic lens towards a low-carbon development economy.
Promote participation and inclusion of youths in government-led initiatives to bridge inclusion gaps and provide opportunities for them to influence decision-making.
Encourage government and stakeholders to lead on climate by designing local solutions to a global threat.
Reinforce the need to prioritize key social, environmental and economic sectors and shape youth voices through this set of demands as areas of priority that must be addressed.

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Nigeria is in a state of poor health systems and services coupled with a lack of flow of financial revenue to remediate [...]

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Nigeria has developed several policies, strategies, plans and actions to key into the global adaptation goal to enhance [...]

Increasing knowledge about Climate Change remains the pillar for all actions. Therefore, stakeholders and governments sh [...]

The investment needed to accelerate Nigeria’s climate-resilient development and meet the country’s climate commitments a [...]

Lack of political will to drive Nigeria’s transition into a low-carbon economy, inadequate governance structures to impl [...]