Barely 4% of young Latinos see enough climate action

By FYH News Team

Published on June 1, 2022

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Barely “4% of young climate activists in Latin America and the Caribbean believe that their governments are taking adequate measures” in the face of the climate crisis, says the coordinator of the LatinClima climate change communication network, Katiana Murillo.

He does so in an article in the EFEverde blogosphere a few days before the commemoration of World Environment Day (June 5) in which he points out that young people “they seem to understand very well that, without climatic stability, there can be no political stability either and that also from politics you have to work for the first ”.

However, in a very turbulent region at the political level, “Latin American youth is still not sufficiently taken into account as an important force, despite its great importance for generational change,” he warns.

Far from waiting to be taken into account, they are opening their own spaces and in countries like Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico or the Dominican Republic they are carrying out participatory processes to elect young representatives to be part of the negotiating teams of their countries at the next climate COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh (Egypt).

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And it is that, recalls Murillo, according to the latest IPCC report on mitigation “It is still possible to avoid the most drastic effects of climate change that would occur with an average increase in global temperature of more than 1.5º Celsius.”

“The sooner young people get to that decision making, before they can work for a world that sooner rather than later will be entirely in their hands”, Murillo points out in the gallery, the full text of which is available at www.efeverde.com of the EFE Agency.

LatinClima was created in April 2015 by the Ministries of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica; of Housing, Territorial Ordering and Environment of Uruguay; and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Teaching Center, with seed support from the German Agency for International Cooperation.

It also currently has the support of the Tropical Science Center and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). (YO)

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