Anthony Oyakhilome Justice is a United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network Millennium Fellow and Campus Director for the Class of 2020. He is a student at the University of Port Harcourt in Nigeria.

Increasing Youth Participation in Climate Action

Participants in the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Network Rivers Hub during a community service exercise at Eleme in Rivers State, Nigeria. 29 August 2020. yalirivershub Photo/Instagram
A participant speaks at the Intergenerational Town Hall, which provided an opportunity for young leaders to engage with world leaders during the United Nations Youth Climate Summit in New York, 21 September 2019.

Young people, who constitute the majority of the population in many countries, are becoming a driving force in pursuing a low-carbon and climate-resilient future.