The World We Want: Youth Voices On Climate And Health, Ep.05 - Nathan Metenier

In this series, podcast host Jonathan Foster takes a closer look at the lives of youth leaders and activists, discussing the current climate, environment, and health crisis and the possibilities, alternatives, and ideas for transformational change.

Listen to what global youth leaders really think about the handling of our intensifying Climate and Health Emergency.

In this 5th episode in the series we speak to Nathan Metenier, a 22 years old climate and environmental activist and one of seven members of Antonio Guterres’ Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change. He is part of the leading youth climate networks in Europe, notably as Advocacy Manager of Youth and Environment Europe, co-founder of Generation Climate Europe and the only young member of the European Environmental Bureau.

Nathan talks passionately about how we need to introduce more representation and diversity into the internal power structures of institutions. He talks about mechanisms for change including creating a more robust civil society and how his own journey to climate activism helped him to realise that the climate emergency is a social as well as a scientific challenge and that the Greta Effect is also about being part of a family of like-minded people.

Links to organisations mentioned in the episode:

Youth and Environment Europe - www.yeenet.eu

Generation Climate Europe - www.gceurope.org

Youth for Nature - www.youth4nature.org

This podcast is brought to you by the Prince Mahidol Award Conference and the Swedish Institute for Global Health Transformation (SIGHT) in collaboration with FHI 360, The World Health Organisation, The World Bank, The British Medical Journal, USAID, and Foster Media.

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Theme tune written and produced by Caleb Fawcett. Find him on www.calebfawcett.com