A new Youth Award for the 2024 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards was proudly announced by the International Association of Horticultural Producers ( AIPH ) and the Global Youth Biodiversity internet ( GYBN ) on 6th December 2022 at the Youth Summit in Montréal ahead of the 15th Conference of the Parties ( COP 15 ) to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity ( CBD ) .
As companionship gather in Montréal for COP 15 , GYBN and spouse organized and hosted a Youth Summit to drive impulse and build solidarity towards what will doubtless be a critical moment in the history of our major planet . At this auspicious event , AIPH and GYBN are proud to have denote the launch of a new Youth Award , which is set to be jointly brought to life as part of the 2024 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards .
Greener citiesAnnouncing the Youth Summit on behalf of AIPH , Mr. Anthony O’Neill , President of the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association ( CNLA ) , articulate : “ The world-wide youthfulness constituency is central to our collective hereafter . Building greener urban center is core to the bequest we hope to leave behind for future generation . ”
Mr. Tim Briercliffe , Secretary General of AIPH , articulate : “ AIPH welcomes this partnership with the GYBN , which will firmly unify youth dream with the inspiring action mechanism cities are take to shape a greener , hefty , and more sustainable urban future . We are so pleased to be join forces to ensure that the voice of young people is heard in the 2024 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards , and we look forward to strengthening our engagement with the youth to inspire a lasting legacy for future variant . ”
This newfangled Youth Award will be decided by a new Youth Jury , whose compiling will be led by GYBN , and who will take from the 18 finalist the top incoming most likely to inspire the youth and satisfy their needs for a secure , healthy future . The Youth Award will be present at the 2024 Awards observance alongside the Category Winners and is envisaged to be an intact part of each future variation going fore .
The Youth Summit , under the theme of “ Driving transmutation for our future with nature , “ brought together over 300 young masses from around the world alongside Ministers , Mayors , and other dignitaries . Taking situation as a two - day side effect of the COP from 5th-6th December 2022 , it render a global chopine for the spring chicken to engineer , electronic internet , ascertain raw science , telephone exchange cognition , and partake their hopes and ambitiousness for COP15 and the Post 2020 GBF . At COP 15 from 7 - 11 May 2025 , leaders from around the world will negotiate and adopt the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework ( GBF)- a raw globular agenda to guide biodiversity natural process through 2030 . The Youth Summit was made possible in collaboration with the Government of Quebec , the Government of Canada , and the Secretariat of the UN CBD , as well as with the generous reenforcement of various donors .
The Global Youth Biodiversity web ( GYBN ) is an international mesh of juvenility organizations and individuals from every global realm who have merge together with a mutual end : preventing the going of biodiversity and preserving Earth ’s natural resource . Since 2010 , GYBN has served as a platform where young multitude can enter and collaborate in the decision - create cognitive operation . GYBN is formally realise as the international coordination platform for spring chicken participation in the CBD .
orbicular thinkingAs the world ’s champion for the power of plants , AIPH leads planetary thought process on the successful consolidation of plants and nature- the living green- into the built environment . The AIPH World Green City Awards recognize and celebrate sheer and innovational action that harnesses the power of plants and nature to create liveable , inclusive , and lively metropolis . The inaugural 2022 edition of the AIPH World Green City Awards , which has of late been concluded , draw in entries from close to 60 top cities and proved the immense succeeder of this unique flagship initiative- the world ’s first global awarding where plant and nature are the core focus .
“ The passing of nature is one of the greatest challenge of our clock time . How we represent now to stop this loss will determine what time to come today ’s youth will revel tomorrow . We are proud to be induct the Youth Award with AIPH to prove how the youth are decisive to shaping the global movement for immature cities . It is , after all , these cities which the youth will inherit and stay to transform in the future , ” said Swetha Stotra Bhashyam , Global South Focal Point , GYBN .
The AIPH World Green City Awards 2024 version was late launch at the 2022 Awards Ceremony , held as a gala dinner at the IUCN Leaders Forum in the Special Self - Governing Province of Jeju , the Republic of Korea , in October 2022 .
EcosystemsAIPH and GYBN and their growing web of cooperator tempt all cities , large and minuscule , to enter the 2024 version of the AIPH World Green City Awards . In doing so , city will demonstrate their challenging commitments to nature by showcasing the action they are get hold of to protect , maintain , and rejuvenate the ecosystems which not only bear out our current livelihoods but are also essential in safeguarding a just , clean , and sound environment within which the youth can live and boom well into the hereafter .
The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow . Thus , this seasonable annunciation in the margins of COP15 is welcomed by both AIPH and GYBN . These system , both with global influence , are proud of to be collaborating to exhibit first - hand how metropolis - led action for nature has the potential to inspire youth - led action and vice versa . This partnership will stand as a leading example of the power of come together to advance the global imperative to embrace nature - based solutions in the coming Post 2020 X .
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