YOUNGO health perspective and demands on climate negotiations

The YOUNGO Health Working Group advocates for youth participation in a green post-COVID-19 recovery and UNFCCC negotiations, highlighting the link between planetary health and human health. The authors call for governments to treat climate change as a health emergency and increase their Nationally Determined Contributions to meet Paris Agreement objectives.

• The authors assert that human and planetary health are interconnected, noting that climate change is considered the most significant global health threat of the 21st century. They cite research suggesting that climate-driven shifts in global bat diversity may be linked to the zoonotic emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2.
• Youth have demonstrated their capacity to drive community-level health and climate action, such as Bangladeshi and Rohingya youth preventing COVID-19 infections in Cox’s Bazar and medical students in Peru collaborating with the Ministry of Health on health promotion and mental health since February 2021.
• The YOUNGO Health Working Group demands that governments recognize climate change as a health emergency and increase their climate action commitments within their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs) to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
• The document highlights the role of youth-led pressure in institutional change, citing the University of Massachusetts as the first major public university system to divest from fossil fuels in May 2016 due to pressure from medical students.

APA

Iturregui, R. S., & Mariyam, D. (2021). YOUNGO health perspective and demands on climate negotiations. Global Climate and Health Alliance. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/blog/youngo-health-perspective-and-demands-on-climate-negotiations/

Chicago

Iturregui, Rodrigo Sánchez, and Deena Mariyam. YOUNGO health perspective and demands on climate negotiations. Global Climate and Health Alliance, 2021. https://climateandhealthalliance.org/blog/youngo-health-perspective-and-demands-on-climate-negotiations/.

Wikipedia

{{cite press release |last1=Iturregui |first1=Rodrigo Sánchez |last2=Mariyam |first2=Deena |title=YOUNGO health perspective and demands on climate negotiations |publisher=Global Climate and Health Alliance |date=13 September 2021 |url=https://climateandhealthalliance.org/blog/youngo-health-perspective-and-demands-on-climate-negotiations/ |access-date=23 October 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@misc{iturregui2021youngo, author = {Iturregui, Rodrigo Sánchez and Mariyam, Deena}, title = {{YOUNGO health perspective and demands on climate negotiations}}, publisher = {Global Climate and Health Alliance}, year = {2021}, month = sep, url = {https://climateandhealthalliance.org/blog/youngo-health-perspective-and-demands-on-climate-negotiations/}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }