The #GenerationRestoration Youth Hub is a diverse and growing global community bringing together youth leaders and practitioners across different fields and industries, in support of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. The Youth Hub is co-convened by 1t.org – at the World Economic Forum and Global Landscapes Forum – Youth in Landscapes Initiative. The Youth Hub partners with Good to Nature to engage youth leaders for #GenerationRestoration in China.
Youth Hub Overview
Our Mission
The Youth Hub fosters collaboration, shared action and learning to help accelerate the global youth-led restoration movement. Our vision is that young people are meaningfully engaged in ecosystem restoration efforts both on the ground and at the policy level.
Meet the young leaders who are driving action on nature and climate who attended Davos this year
Nature & Climate Engagement Series
The Youth Hub is codesigning a Nature & Climate programme that covers topical questions encountered by youth leaders on their journey to understand how to make real impact in the face of climate change and nature loss.
The programme is open to all the youth climate activists, ecopreneurs and leaders who are members of the Youth Hub, as well as the World Economic Forum Global Shapers community.
Climate Youth Negotiators Programme
1t.org supports the Youth Negotiators Academy, that through its first programme the Climate Youth Negotiators Programme, a global intergenerational programme, is redressing the systemic inequality of youth representation and leadership in multilateral negotiations and decision-making.
The programme is co-founded by four #GenerationRestoration Youth Hub members and is supported by a wide range of global stakeholders.
Youth Challenge Winners
In 2021, 1t.org ran the UpLink #GenerationRestoration Youth Challenge, a global call for youth-led solutions to conserve and restore ecosystems in support of one of humanity’s greatest challenges — climate change.
The solutions address a range of ecosystem challenges, including deforestation and forest degradation and decline in pollinators, and the lack of conservation training and opportunities for young people to become equipped with the tools to protect nature.
Climate Leaders Programme
In partnership with Goodwall, 1t.org contributed to the #ClimateLeaders program gathered the voices of youth around the world and brought them to 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) to influence the debate on climate change.
The best ideas in the fields such as finance, science, technology, or education were showcased at the in Sharm-El-Sheik, helping turn ideas into action.
The project was supported by UNICEF, YOMA, Generation Unlimited, Friends of Bata, JA Worldwide, and 1t.org, an initiative of the World Economic Forum.
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Youth Hub Members
Youth Hub Members
Meet the members of the Youth Hub for #GenerationRestoration, a growing and diverse community of almost 100 youth leaders and organizations.
Jimena Ramirez
Paria Al Awadhi
Paria Al Awadhi is an Emirati female business development and brand strategist with a proven record in building global conglomerates and start-up businesses through integrated business development and marketing communication strategies, cross business & cross markets. Excited to help brands evolve to reach their full potential using creative & innovative approaches. Paria’s previous role was with Siemens leading the Expo 2020 premier partnership as the Head of Program Management, Expo 2020. Paria led the vision and was a spokesperson for the blueprint of future smart cities at Expo as well as being responsible for key account management/ smart district business development. She also previously worked for other global conglomerates such as GE. Paria has broad sector experience including; healthcare, aviation, digital, energy and government affairs. She is continuously bridging the gap between the private and government sectors.
Currently an Associate Director for EY leading the business development team for the UAE market as well as supporting the start-up ecosystem as a fellow through On Deck Health while being the out-going curator for the Global Shapers Community in Dubai.
Empathetic and committed, she thrives in creating meaningful strategic commercially driven campaigns adapted by key metrics, customer feedback & current market trends. Core expertise: Innovation-driven strategies, branding, strategic marketing, product marketing, customer segmentation, campaigns, social media management and international partnership building.
Paria is passionate about education, mental health, food, the arts, books to learn from, paintings that spark an intriguing discussion, the next travel destination and start-up ideas.
She is enthusiastic about learning more everyday.
Shantanu Jagtap
Shantanu is a young community leader, social innovator and social entrepreneur. He believes in innovation as the key component in bringing social change, development, cohesion & empowerment of people & communities.
He is currently the Curator of the Global Shapers Community Baramati Hub and has been an impact officer in 2023-24. Here, he is actively involved in understanding the needs & challenges of rural communities & working to create socially inclusive, vibrant & sustainable rural communities in Baramati India. From 2020-He is actively contributing his expertise in community building, ground level execution, project planning & KPIs/impact measurement & impacting lives through Project Saamarthi, Project Grass & Roots and Project Forces of Change. He also looks after the financial planning for the projects of the hub as the Treasurer.
He is currently working as Planning & Logistics Executive at Cummins India, where he is involved in strategically building green and resilient supply chains.
Shantanu has also founded “Wasteino”, with an aim to create local ecosystems so that there is value addition to the locally available agriculture and cattle waste which will empower the farmers & rural communities in India. At wasteino he innovates to create wealth out of waste by making biodegradable products out of waste as a replacement to plastic products & renewable energy out of waste.
From 2018 to 2020 he has lead “Team Ambush”, a group of young individuals which works with an ideology & goal to “Innovate, Design & Bring mechanisation in the field of agriculture in India by solving the farming challenges through mechanised solutions. The team participates in a National level competition organised by SAE India (Society of Automotive Engineers) namely SAE TIFAN (Technology Innovation Forum for Agricultural Nurturing). Team was able to successfully design and manufacture “Krushirath 3.0” (A self propelled 4 wheel onion harvester) which received All India Rank 1 and also received best design award. The event is organised by various organisations such as John Deere, Ansys, Mahindra, Cummins, Altair, BKT, ARAI, Kirloskar Engines, etc
He has also received various recognitions from the government of India & various other reputed institutions for his work in the field of nature-based solutions.
Shantanu is passionate advocate of nature-based solutions & creating inclusive developments putting forward sustainable models for creating social entrepreneurs from rural communities.
He loves connecting with people from the world who are & willing to drive change!
Shantanu holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He believes in going out and creating a meaningful impact!