Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change
Sat, Aug 09
|Virtual Summit
Time & Location
Aug 09, 2025, 12:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Virtual Summit
About the event
The third Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC) will be held 9 August 2025, circling the Earth with the Sun across three 8-hour time zones in 24 hours (00:00 GMT – 24:00 GMT) on the United Nations International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples. GIYSCC-2025 is hosted again by Future Earth with Science Diplomacy Center™ coordination in collaboration with the Africa and Asia Regional Chapters of the International Network for Government Science Advice (INGSA) among many key collaborators (please see below).
This “virtual dialogue by, for and among Indigenous youth with global inclusion” builds on GIYSCC-2024 and GIYSCC-2023, which was hosted by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), involving 2100+ registrants from 136 nations and representing nearly 290 languages in the first two years (please see PAST SUMMITS) during this International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032.
A legacy contribution from GIYSCC-2023 is the invited Nature Commentary that Indigenous Youth Must Be at the Forefront of Climate Diplomacy, building a Global…