Background and Objectives 

Activity 8 of the 2nd three-year work plan of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform (LCIPP) focuses on the role of Indigenous youth and youth from local communities, and specific ways to advance the engagement of youth in designing and implementing climate policies and actions at all levels, including the UNFCCC process, such as at COP 29. 
 
The deliverables of Activity 8 include: 

1. Knowledge-gathering devoted to intergenerational knowledge-sharing, intergenerational equity, strengthening relevant practices on the ground, and enhancing youth engagement in climate policy development and implementation at all levels with a view to developing recommendations on how to enhance the leadership of Indigenous youth and youth from local communities. 

2. Recommendations from Indigenous youth participants and youth participants from local communities, ensuring gender and sociocultural balance, on the promotion of their participation in the activities of the FWG, as well as opportunities to enhance knowledge-sharing, capacity-building, and policy for integration under the UNFCCC process. 

In preparation for COP29, FWG co-leads for activity 8 conducted informal consultations with Indigenous youth and youth from local communities. These informal consultations (Session 1 and Session 2) gathered inputs from participants from different regions on effective ways of designing the annual youth round table at COP29. Youth from all UN Indigenous sociocultural regions provided valuable insights on thematic topics for discussions during the roundtable, the format of the roundtable proposed strategies for the FWG to disseminate key messages from the roundtable. These inputs have been incorporated to inform the overall structure and focus of the annual youth round table at COP29.