Yoko Watanabe and Nina Kantcheva discuss the Nature for Life Hub, a virtual partnership between UNDP and 40+ organizations, which centers the voices of youth, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and other environmental activists in conversations surrounding climate action and activism. These populations have often been silenced, erased, and ignored from climate-related discussions and decision-making processes, but they each hold important knowledge about environmental protection and conservation that is crucial to keeping ecosystems intact and reversing biodiversity loss. By highlighting organizations run by the world’s youth and other passionate earth defenders, Nature for Life Hub empowers people on the frontlines of the climate movement who fight to establish and protect the rights of nature.
