Veena Balakrishnan

Intersectional Environmentalist | climate justice

[Universal Rights Group @URGthinktank]

🗣️At the #HRC54 panel on #youth and #HumanRights, Evelyn Adzovi Addor, Climate Negotiator for #Ghana, @ecocareghana & @youthnegotiator highlights:

🔹Youth’s limited space in finding solutions to climate crisis often takes place in the form of tokenism
🔹When given the opportunity, young people can make significant contributions to climate governance➡️Training, funding, and climate education are needed
🔹#OHCHR must take #LossAndDamage seriously and investigate its impact on human rights violations➡️L&D is ‘the injustice of all injustices’

📺Watch live:https://t.co/rKi2eIAsnP

[The Elders @TheElders]

The Elders believe young people must be included in #climate negotiation spaces as equal stakeholders.

Today at #ACS23, Graça Machel spent time with African participants of the Climate Youth Negotiators Programme (@youthnegotiator) looking ahead to #COP28.

[Tina Stege @EnvoyRmi]

In honor of @Beyonce 🙏 being around the corner from the Bonn #SB58, here's my slightly less formal take on the last two weeks of #climate talks:

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

#SB58 @UNFCCC

An special night with special people ✨

We are very much grateful for hosting our first dinner, a year after the Programme started. Our sincere gratitude goes out to you for being a pillar of support in bringing the CYNP to life, from the very beginning.

[Veena Balakrishnan @veenabalakrish]

What beautiful questions @LauraJessieCook shared with me to reflect upon. Never enjoyed this exercise more before ♥️

[Veena Balakrishnan @veenabalakrish]

This was a pretty packed 60 minutes, and @AlokSharma_RDG left the conversation with more items on his To-do list than me. That says something

[Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma @AlokSharma_RDG]

Very good to catch-up again with ⁦@MarieClaireGraf⁩ ⁦@veenabalakrish⁩ & ⁦@sophie_daud⁩ from the ⁦@youthnegotiator⁩ Academy to discuss the Climate Youth Negotiator Programme and the vital role of younger people in climate negotiations

[Saleemul Huq @SaleemulHuq2]

India could be first country to get heatwaves that shatter human survivability limits https://t.co/Su1dZb4vPx

[SREnvironment @SREnvironment]

2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Good time to forgive debt of low income nations in exchange for human rights commitments.

[Siemens Infrastructure @SiemensInfra]

People are in the center of the #energytransition. It is not possible to manage a power grid without knowing about the people using it. Help us model people’s swarm behavior and incorporate #bigdata into energy management.

Submit your ideas and join 🌎 #TechForSustainability!

[Amy Campbell @amykjcampbell]

Meeting COP 26 CEO Peter Hill & the director for climate finance at BEIS with the @youthnegotiator’s on the final two days of negotiations, loss and damage progression and future youth & civil society representation at COP 28 - @COP27P @CoP27UKYouth

[Rt Hon Lord Alok Sharma @AlokSharma_RDG]

Great to meet with youth representatives and negotiators at #COP27

Discussed the ongoing negotiations & the Global Youth Statement

Encourage all negotiators & decision makers to read the statement:

https://t.co/JwrsuUv00O

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

It was great to meet with outgoing COP President Alok Sharma and other youth groups to discuss how to amplify young people’s role in UNFCCC processes. 🇺🇳

We need to both have a seat at the table and the tools to fully participate!

[Veena Balakrishnan @veenabalakrish]

Ran into the Former UN Human Rights Commissioner @raad_zeid while looking for his wisdom on how to tackle some of the challenges we’ve been witnessing at @COP27P negotiations. It helped settle my mind a little.

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

Today we’re meeting with the esteemed @lordstern1, who is also a member of our advisory council, to discuss how we can boost youth leadership within the UNFCCC.

Lord Stern also gave our youth delegates some tips to overcome hurdles in the topics they’re negotiating!

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

Co-founder of CYNP Sophie Daud moderated a panel today on training the next generation of climate negotiators 💪.

One of our very own youth negotiators, Carola, also spoke to bring her own experiences into this crucial discussion!

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

We met some of our amazing donors at @BoschStiftung!

Our negotiators explained how their CYNP training has empowered them to participate fully in the negotiations and now the youth negotiators work so hard to support one another.

[Veena Balakrishnan @veenabalakrish]

This chat is incredible. @youthnegotiator from 27 countries following different negotiations at @COP27P supporting, sharing and rooting for each other ♥️

[Mr. Climate @OlumideIDOWU]

Today, I'll be speaking at the Climate Forward @nytimesevents, exploring which initiatives should be scaled up & put into place to ensure clean, healthy air. "We can’t breathe: respecting human rights in a changing climate" at 12:45 PM | 🔗👉https://t.co/41PDhf3Vps #NYTCF @AYICC

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

Reminiscing about the peaceful sailing on the #Nile which ended our wonderful time in Cairo after the in-perso training for #COP27. A much required breather before the intense weeks of negotiatons!
#YouthNegotiators #CYNP

[Youth Negotiators Academy @youthnegotiator]

Our #YouthNegotiators & team are in action @COP27P.
Deepa from Nepal intervening at the Gender Negotiations, Bianca from Peru speaking at the UK Pavilion at an event on Indigenous Leadership & the team with the Minister of Environment from the Dominican Republic.
#CYNP #YouthCOP