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.
Oluwole Hammond
Wole Hammond is a sustainability and development practitioner with extensive experience in research, stakeholder management, corporate sustainability strategy, and project management. His work has seen him mobilize green investments into cleantech enterprises in emerging markets, support national clean energy policy development in Nigeria, and execute innovation and skills development programs.
Wole is also passionate about transformative leadership and civic engagement. He founded the Africa Forum for Intergenerational Leadership (AFIL) - a platform that engages, convenes, and champions intergenerational collaboration to address Africa's developmental issues in the 21st century. AFIL empowers generations to lead together across key sectors, including government, business, academia. and civil society.
He is a Climate Reality Leader and a 2020 Bakanal d'Afrique Fellow. Wole was previously the Assistant Manager, Environment and Climate at Clean Technology Hub. He recently co-authored a series of country reports titled 'From Risk to Resilience' on four African countries, including Zambia and Kenya. Wole currently serves on the Global Shapers Advisory Council.