The Pact actively engages with institutional stakeholders to drive investment in green skills and jobs.
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Process
- Submit suggested commitment/ contribution using the draft commitment template which will be shared after submitting your expression of interest
- Discussion and agreement on commitments with Green Jobs for Youth Pact team
- Commitments will be published on this page
- Joint communication of commitment and roadmap for the year
- Accountability system: Report of progress on a yearly basis
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Why commit?
Ramboll: Empowering Youth for a Low-Carbon Future – Sub page for more information
- Train 1,000 young people globally by 2025, with a focus on women, underserved, and marginalized communities.
- Equip youth with skills in sustainable engineering, decarbonization, and biodiversity restoration.
Plan International: Championing Green Skills and Youth Empowerment – sub page for more information
- Equip youth, especially young women, with digital, financial, and green entrepreneurship skills in countries like the Philippines, China, Lebanon, Ecuador, Colombia, and Ghana by 2025.
- Conduct evidence-based research on green skills, leveraging their annual reach of 52 million youth.
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Who can make a commitment?
Ministerial endorsement for the Pact:
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UNEA-6 Resolution on Sustainable Lifestyles
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Forum of Ministers of Environment LAC adopted two decisions strengthening Pact’s role
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African Ministerial Conference on the Environment with Green Jobs for Youth on agenda
At the Summit of the Future, UNEP hosted a breakthrough side-event with member states, private sector and UN partner making new commitments to generate green skills and jobs in their countries. Ministers from India and Armenia plus high level representatives from Cuba and Cyprus made new commitments and confirmations of support with private sector partners Ramboll and LinkedIn also agreeing to support the programme. This side-event which was addressed by the Executive Director of UNEP was backed up by the first event, the Youth Forum on the Future of the Environment, co- organized by the Children and Youth Major Group (CYMG) to UNEP, focused on the transformative potential of green jobs for young people.
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Types of commitments?
- Times Higher Education: Times Higher Education (THE) will explore how can Universities support their students to have job market-ready and relevant green skills, to explore the inter-relationship between universities and the local economy they are situated in and taking an innovative approach to explore what more could Universities be doing to support this outcome.
- ARIUSA - Plastics: Identifying scalable models for green skills offerings to advance a circular economy for plastics, in collaboration with 74 universities in LAC.
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Criteria for a strong commitment?
At its core, the Green Jobs for Youth Pact places youth at the heart of the green transition:
- Embedding youth leadership: Through a dedicated Youth Advisory Group, with representatives from global 6 expert youth constituencies, the Pact embeds youth leadership at every stage of its design, implementation, and scaling, ensuring young people have a direct voice in shaping initiatives and programs that affect their futures. For more information, check the Youth Advisory Group members list here.
- Aligning with global commitments: The Summit of the Future and the Declaration on Future Generations reaffirm the collective responsibility to embed youth perspectives in global and national decision-making processes. The Pact contributes to the Summit’s focus on “Youth and Future Generations”, one of the five chapters of the Pact for the Future, which includes clear commitments on “strengthening meaningful youth participation at the national and international level”.
- Youth Consultations with SOS-International between April and June 2024 with call to actions for each stakeholder group:Green Skills and Green Jobs Report - Students Organizing for Sustainability International (sos.earth)
- Youth Engagement for Sustainable Lifestyles: Over 3,700 young people participated in the Sustainable Lifestyles Academy's online programs, promoting sustainable lifestyle practices globally.
- Youth advocacy through dialogues at UNEA-6, Summit of the Future, High-Level Political Forum
