BYLC’s Global Youth Climate Summit 2021 kicks off
The two-day online summit welcomes more than 500 young change makers, from six different continents. Sadia Tahsin Sadia Tahsin
Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC) hosted the Global Youth Climate Summit, in partnership with the California-based Foundation for Climate Restoration, Resilient Markets and the Centre for Climate Repair at Cambridge. Held from March 11 to 12, it is a two-day online summit, with more than 500 young change makers, from six different continents.
On the first day, the event had three different sessions: Opening Plenary: No time to waste, Fireside Chat: Managing wellbeing of both ecosystems and human beings, and Plenary: Youth stand up to climate change. The sessions were hosted via Zoom, and were moderated by Sandra Kwak, Founder & CEO of 10Power, Ejaj Ahmed, Founder & President of BYLC and Rebecca Peters, DPhil Candidate at University of Oxford and Qu