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Sustainable finance work area

Sustainable Finance Working Group

Integrates youth voices in climate finance, green investment, and financial policy reform.

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Sumedha TanwarLuke Hatton
Sumedha & Luke2 Focal Points leading this group
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Pioneering the Environmental Pillar of One Health

Three core strategic pillars anchoring CYMG's environmental health research, multilateral diplomacy, and youth capacity building.

01Promote youth participation in sustainable finance policy
02Connect finance, climate, and environmental governance priorities
03Support collaboration across youth and institutional stakeholders

Focal points

The youth leaders and specialists driving CYMG's environmental health mandate across global policy, scientific research, and multilateral negotiations.

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What's happening

Current activities and the latest updates, resources, and events from this group.

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Links & One Health Toolkit

Useful links, resources, position papers, and partner platforms related to environmental health and One Health.

More about Sustainable Finance Working Group

A closer look at this group's history, highlights, and engagements.

Sustainable Finance Youth Coalition (SFYC)

Youth constituencies formed a coalition to engage in international sustainable financial governance

The Sustainable Finance Youth Coalition, launched at COP28, aims to promote sustainable finance practices and raise ambition in policies while encouraging collaboration among various stakeholders and advocating for youth participation in decision-making processes.

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The coalition will also focus on raising awareness about sustainable finance and advocating for change within the finance industry, providing educational resources and capacity building to young people and finance professionals to help them better understand sustainable finance and how it can be implemented.

Watch the Session: SFYC Launching at COP28 >>

Convened by

The SFYC currently comprises representatives of the following youth constituencies while providing a universal engagement for all youth and youth-led organizations in the space:

Children and Youth Major Group to UNEP

YOUNGO

Commonwealth Youth Climate Change Network

240424 SFYC WHITEPAPER FINAL .pdf

SFYC White Paper

The White Paper, launched at UNEA-6, discusses the importance of sustainable financial systems as an enabling framework for the just transition. It makes the case for a global financial system reform that duly accounts for the concept of intergenerational justice. This paper is an invitation to stakeholders and financial institutions alike to engage, collaborate, and expand the frontiers of a transformation justice agenda in sustainable financial systems.

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Download the paper