Grassroots and Youth-Led Climate Solutions From The Gambia.

ABSTRACT: Climate change and environmental degradation are among the greatest threats to human health. Youth campaigners have very effectively focused global attention on the crisis, however children from the Global South are often under-represented (sometimes deliberately) in the dialogue. In The Gambia, West Africa, the impacts of climate change are already being directly experienced by the population, and this will worsen in coming years. There is strong government and community commitment to adapt to these challenges, as evidenced by The Gambia currently being the only country on target to meet the Paris agreement according to the Nationally Determined Contributions, but again children's voices are often missing-while their views could yield valuable additional insights. Here, we describe a "Cli

SUBMITTER: Bonell A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9021377 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature