We created this toolkit under the ACP MEAs 3 Youth Empowerment and Training Initiative (YETI) Europe. The overall objective of this YETI was to empower us, a pool of 16 selected young individuals, with sufficient expertise and skills to become influencers and youth leaders ca- pable to train, support and empower other young people and provide inputs to global, national and local positions on pro-environmental behaviour, management and gover- nance. Throughout the programme, we developed the ca- pacity to bring about youth-led environmental change by engaging with UNEP personnel and experts from around the world, conducting research, completing training on key environmental issues, and participating in side events such as the Youth Environment Assembly.
Growing up in Europe eager to engage in environmen- tal issues, we have experienced that many of us and our peers have the ambition to contribute to pro-environ- mental change but are often wondering “how?”. So we decided to translate all the expertise and insights gained throughout the programme in this common toolkit to in- spire other young people aiming to become influencers of pro-environmental change.
We thank the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the European Union and all the experts involved in YETI for their support and guidance.
