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Hybrid Event in Celebration of the International Youth Day 2025

Youth Power for our Common Future: Unlocking Community Level Action for Climate & SDGs through Digital Innovation & Art

Date: Tuesday, 12th of August 2025

Time: 10 AM EDT / 4 PM CEST – 12 PM EDT / 6 PM CEST

Locations: the hybrid event will be held 

in person at ◾UN HQ NY (Conference Room E) ◾UN Office in Nairobi (UN Habitat led UN system wide celebration of IYD 2025) ◾IAAI GloCha office in Klagenfurt and ◾Rotary@COP30 Committee office in Brasilia 

and online on Streamyard, with live and on demand broadcasts on Youtube, LinkedIn, X and UN WebTV (https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1f/k1fftakv0g) 

Registration: https://forms.gle/stbtBEcpstdKhEVq9 (needed for on-site participation at UN HQ NY!)

Organizer and Partners:

  • International Association for the Advancement of Innovative Approaches to Global Challenges IAAI
  • GloCha Global Challenges Foundation New York Inc.
  • Mission of The Bahamas to the UN in NY
  • UN Habitat Youth Programme
  • International Organization of Youth IOY (former IYC)
  • Rotary@COP30 Committee
  • Major Group for Children and Youth

Thematic blocks:

  • Localization, Mobilization and Empowerment of Action Potentials of Youth: UN Habitat programs and GloCha Global Challenges Action Empowerment & Emerging Technologies Partnership
  • The COP30 Global Mutirão: Mass Mobilization for Climate Action and the Power of Youth
  • GloCha & Rotary COP30 Digital Innovation Pavilion: A space for youth empowerment 
  • Outline of a youth focused COP30 legacy initiative: Digital Public Infrastructure for Climate Action Empowerment 

This hybrid event will be a coordinated, globally- linked celebration showcasing youth-led, community- based climate and SDG action, enabled and amplified by Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and anchored in the run-up to COP30.

🔗 Conceptual Anchors

  1. Local Youth Action = Global Impact: Showcasing that empowered youth at the community level are essential agents of change for climate and SDGs.

As a global community we need to know who is doing what, where, how and with what kind of resources and impact, so that global goals implementation can be coordinated and incentivized more effectively. Digital tools – especially Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) – are the key to success. 

  1. DPI as Enabler: Highlight how digital identity, action registries, impact documentation tools, and Web3 wallets can make local youth actions visible, fundable, & impactful globally.

The COP30 presidency is calling everyone everywhere to take action with the Global Mutirão. This is a unique global governance innovation which will thrive with the power of youth.

  1. Road to COP30: Positioning the event within the lead-up to COP30, The COP30 Global Mutirão: Mass Mobilization for Climate Action campaign and the Global Challenges Action Day campaign.

🎯 Key Objectives

  • Celebrate, expand and elevate youth-led local initiatives.
  • Introduce DPI tools for SDG/climate youth action.
  • Engage global philanthropy, service organizations, universities and public sector leaders.
  • Build momentum for youth engagement at COP30 in Brazil.
  • Create visibility and start conversation on feasibility of the proposed COP30 Legacy Initiative DPI for Climate Action Empowerment. 

Draft Agenda

  1. Opening Segment 
  • IOY – (UN HQ New York) 4 minutes & GloCha (Klagenfurt) 2 minutes & UN-Habitat: Doug Ragan & Sabrina (Nairobi) 2+1 minutes & Rotary (Brazil) 2 minutes Intro – Hi and preview of what will be presented during the event
  • MGCY – 3 minutes
  • Partner from UN DESA Youth Programme – 3 minutes
  1. COP30 Presidency Youth Champion Message and Keynote Presentations
  • Marcele Oliveira, Youth Champion of the Presidency of the UN Climate Conference 2025 – COP30: Global Mutirão – Call for Action (pre-recorded Videomessage)
  • Amb. Stan Smith, Mission of The Bahamas to the UN in NY – Diplomatic keynote, UN80, Global Challenges Action Day initiative et al. (10 minutes)
  • Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Coordinator for scientific and technological affairs and bilateral relations, Department of Climate, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Brazil – COP30 Presidency’s Theory of Change and the Systemic Role of Digital Public Infrastructure, Innovation and Youth (8-10 minutes)
  1. Audience engagement – Slido (1 word, several entries possible): 4 minutes x2
  • “My #YouthPower/#PeoplePower for Our Common Future”
  • “What Roads (Digital Public Infrastructure) are Needed to bring my contribution to the Global Table?”
  1. International Youth Day 2025 Celebration – Impressions from UN Office Nairobi
  • IYD 2025 Video Message Anacláudia Rossbach, Executive Director of UN Habitat 
  • Video Report of the IYD2025 Celebration Event at UN Office Nairobi – prepared by Sabrina
  1. Presentation of Event Partners and their Youth Empowerment & Digital Innovation Programs
  • The Global Challenges Action Empowerment Partnership GloCha – 
    • Miroslav Polzer, Klagenfurt – GloCha Digital Public Infrastructure for Global Challenges Action Empowerment for the Management of Global Mutirao Self Determined Contributions
    • Susanna Choe & Alexandre Caldas – Planetary Futures Center & Globes initiative 
  • Rotary@COP30 Committee – Alberto Palombo & Rotaract/youth representative, Brasília-Brazil – (2×4 minutes)
  • International Organization of Youth IOY/IYC
  • Long Beach City College – Long Beach City College Public Health Innovation Lab and Global Change Ambassadors’ program partnership with GloCha in the context of environmental health, ecology and humanitarian issues  Ruby Guillen intro 3 min., Frank Henry-Ala, LBCC Public Health Assistant Professor, 5 min)
  1. “Call for Partners” Global Mutirão Artwork (& Music) Crowdsourcing Call: #Together #DigitalArt4Climate for the COP30 Digital Innovation Pavilion & Venice Climate Week 2026 – Sol Moran Broza 
  2. Discussion and Interventions from additional on-site participants at UN HQ NY

Contact: Miroslav Polzer, IAAI GloCha, https://www.linkedin.com/in/miropolzer/ , polzer@glocha.info 

🧠 Communications Hashtags

#YouthPower2030 #IYD2025 #YouthForClimate #DPI4Youth #LocalActionGlobalImpact #RoadToCOP30 #WeTheYouth #GlobalChallengesAction #RotaryCOP30 #DigitalArt4Climate

References:

Rio+20 Global Youth Music Contest in Support of the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development 2012, Documentation – presented on International Youth Day 2012 (link), (video)

IAAI Press Conference at the UN Bonn Climate Conference SB62: GloCha X Global Mutirão: Engaging Everyone in Building a Climate Safe Future, 24 Jun. 2025 (video on UNFCCC homepage)