Several Japanese media featured a training session held as part of the Global Youth MIDORI platform (GYM), a new capacity development programme for youth launched by UNU-IAS and the AEON Environmental Foundation. The programme aims to empower young people to develop solutions for biodiversity loss and other global challenges.
The training session concluded with a speech contest. The top two students — Shiho Ito (Global Studies Program, Akita International University) and Taira Ishiguro (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, the University of Tokyo) — will participate in the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia (CBD COP 16) as a part of the UNU delegation.
The news articles (in Japanese) can be accessed below.
