Youth Voices For Planetary Health

Leveraging our existing projects and partnerships with young people, World Obesity has a unique opportunity to help the HCN expand its audiences, as we mobilise youth organisations from food, health and climate spaces to help disseminate the messages produced and take forward the HCN’s work in 2022.

By focusing on youth rather than driving a specific issue ourselves, we open the door to mobilise and create momentum across a wide range of areas relevant to HCN.

In the lead up to COP26, World Obesity will work with youth leaders to produce advocacy videos for social media based on the HCN core messages.

The short videos will be montaged into a digital youth HCN manifesto, which will be launched at The UN Climate Change Conference of Youth (COY).

Following COP26, we will continue to develop the youth arm of HCN, convening a workshop for young people already engaged, as well as other youth leaders who emerged at COP26.

The virtual convening will aim to reflect on COP26, refine the HCN’s existing messages and co-create new strategies to progress the HCN’s work in 2022. In Q1 2022 we will also produce three podcast episodes, hosted on our youth facing platform Healthy Voices.