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🇨🇱Chile·Extreme events
Satellite monitoring with AI for risk management of extreme climate events in Chile
In Chile, Chucaw, a startup co-founded by the young Isis Riquelme at age 21, responds to fires, droughts and other extreme weather events with a platform that combines artificial intelligence, satellite data and local knowledge to anticipate risks. Deliver reports and alerts to municipalities and communities so they can act in time. It has already implemented pilot projects with insurance companies, forestry and agricultural companies and municipalities, and was awarded CORFO's Expande Seed Capital.
Measure
Other
Territory
N/A
Youth participation
Chucaw was co-founded by Isis Riquelme at age 21; Today he is its CEO. In 2023, United Nations Youth recognized her among 500 young people who contribute to the SDGs for her work in Chucaw. The young team is involved in the design of AI algorithms and the analysis of satellite data.
Restoration of urban wetlands for flood prevention in Llanquihue, Chile
In Llanquihue (Los Lagos Region), the Legado Chile Foundation, created by young professionals, faces flooding due to extreme rains by restoring degraded urban wetlands with green infrastructure that restores the soil's ability to absorb water. It transformed micro-gardens into socio-ecological parks, removed more than 900 tons of garbage, planted more than 6,000 native trees and trained the community with the Naturalist School program.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Valdivian temperate forests
Youth participation
The foundation was created by a team of young professionals between 27 and 28 years old. Boys, girls and young people participate through the Naturalist School program, volunteer days of reforestation with native flora, wetland cleanups and educational contests.
Regenerative agriculture to strengthen the adaptation of productive systems to climate change in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula
Youth for Conservation of Honduras (JPC), led since 2025 by APAH, trains young people as environmental promoters to promote sustainable agricultural practices in the face of soil degradation and climate variability. In September 2026, Class XVI received training in regenerative agriculture in El Merendón, including soil conservation, organic fertilizers and natural crop management, to strengthen agricultural resilience to droughts and changes in rainfall.
Measure
Agriculture
Territory
Broadleaf forest and cloud forest
Youth participation
The Association of Environmental Promoters (APAH), founded in 2020 by graduates of Jóvenes para la Conservación Honduras (JPC) and with 230 members, has led the program since 2025. Certified youth leaders guide the participants, who lead local trainings in their communities.
Agroforestry restoration for the protection of water sources in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula
In the face of drought, the Wéndeti project, of the youth organization Cipotes Honduras, promotes reforestation and environmental education in El Merendón, San Pedro Sula, a key area for water in the region. In alliance with Aguas de San Pedro, the young people planted 380 trees with the MIAF model (Milpa Interplanted with Fruit Trees), which combines forest restoration and agricultural production to protect the soil and water sources.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Broadleaf forest and cloud forest
Youth participation
Cipotes Honduras is a youth organization founded in 2021 by a group of friends, which today brings together more than 1,000 young university students and professionals. In Wéndeti, it raises awareness and mobilizes young volunteers who participate in reforestation and environmental education sessions.
Restoration of high Andean peatlands through rewetting in the face of variability in water availability in the El Almorzadero páramo, Colombia
In the El Almorzadero páramo (Colombia), the peatlands that regulate water are degraded by drainage and the entry of sheep and horses. Peatlands for the Future, an initiative led by young people from The Ecosystem Carbon Conservation (TECC), restores them by blocking drains to re-wet them and isolating areas; other young people support the monitoring. They have already restored 4 hectares and managed to include the peatlands in the national technical standard for water security (NTC 6766).
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Northern Andean páramo
Youth participation
It is the first youth-led initiative in Colombia dedicated to restoring, conserving and financing peatlands, according to TECC. Its founder, David Santiago Rocha Cárdenas, promotes restoration and research; Other youth participate in soil sampling and monitoring.
Mangrove restoration to strengthen coastal adaptation in the Gulf of Fonseca, Honduras
Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion in the Gulf of Fonseca, the Red de Jóvenes en Acción por el Clima (REDJAC), a youth organization from San Lorenzo, participated together with CODDEFFAGOLF in the project “Youth for the Gulf: Our Home, Nuestro Futuro”, with support from Little Guardians Foundation (Colombia). They planted 1,000 mangrove propagules, an ecosystem that protects the coast against storms and tides, and held environmental education workshops in coastal and island communities.
Measure
Coastal area
Territory
Gulf of Fonseca mangroves
Youth participation
REDJAC, a youth organization based in San Lorenzo that encourages young people to lead environmental projects and campaigns, planted 1,000 mangrove propagules. In addition, he participated in workshops on social resilience in the face of the climate crisis, community work and youth leadership.
Climate education and community intervention with peripheral youth in the face of climate risks in Brasilândia, São Paulo
Brasilândia, on the northern outskirts of São Paulo, is one of the regions of the city with the highest incidence of risk areas. There, the Instituto Perifa Sustentável, founded in 2019 by young black activists from the outskirts of São Paulo, strengthens the adaptation capacity of peripheral youth through climate education. With “Clima de Quebrada”, in 2023 it trained 200 students and 50 teachers from a public school, who together recovered an abandoned space in the neighborhood.
Measure
Education
Territory
Atlantic Forest
Youth participation
The project was created and coordinated by young black activists. Students aged 12 to 14, with the school group, proposed mobilization actions, planned and carried out the intervention in the neighborhood and produced videos for social networks.
Participatory construction of a municipal climate agenda for mitigation and adaptation to floods in Belém, Pará
The Jandyras Network is a network of young Amazonian women from Belém, aged 18 to 35, created to face in an intersectional way the effects of the climate crisis in the city, such as the recurring floods in the outskirts. Launched the Climate Agenda for Belém (2021) and managed to include the Municipal Climate Change Forum in the PPA 2022-2025, becoming a reference in the urban Amazon.
Measure
Policy
Territory
Amazonia
Youth participation
The network was born from a free online training in which 40 women aged 18 to 35 participated, the majority of whom were non-white, who collectively built their own network from it. After graduating, the members become multipliers for other women and young people in Belém.
Community air quality monitoring to minimize the impacts of forest fires in Honduras
Aire Limpio Honduras is a youth-led initiative that strengthens adaptation to climate change through a community air quality monitoring network. With more than 50 low-cost monitors installed in the country, it generates open data on PM2.5 to identify risks associated with forest fires and burning, raise awareness among communities and strengthen their response capacity to protect health.
Measure
Health
Territory
N/A
Youth participation
Young Hondurans actively participate in the implementation of the project, installation and management of monitors, environmental education, community mobilization and use of data to promote public air quality policies.
Environmental education and community restoration in the face of drought in Manaure, La Guajira
In Manaure, La Guajira, children and adolescents from the Wayuu Pesuapa indigenous community created the collective “La Nación Verde” (Wayuu Environmental Children) to respond to the drought, the loss of water in the jagüeyes and the presence of extractive companies. With the support of the NGO Nación Wayuu, they planted more than 500 trees and carried out waste cleaning, wildlife rescue and environmental training sessions among peers.
Measure
Education
Territory
Guajira–Barranquilla xeric scrubland
Youth participation
Wayuu children and youth founded, named "The Green Nation" and support the collective on their own initiative; They are not beneficiaries of an external program but rather the direct formulators and executors of the measure, with technical support from a local NGO.
Conservation and community restoration of peatlands and wetlands in the face of water scarcity in Chiloé, Chile
In Chiloé, Isla Huillín, a group of young people under 35 years of age, faces drought and water scarcity by protecting and restoring peat bogs and pomponales, key ecosystems for retaining water and habitat of the huillín, a species in danger of extinction. Through participatory monitoring with phototrapping and workshops on the water cycle, it brought together more than 15 neighborhood organizations and rural drinking water committees (APR) and delimited critical sectors for water retention.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Valdivian temperate forests
Youth participation
The group is made up of young people under 35 years of age, who have leadership in the management of educational content, coordination of field campaigns, dissemination on social networks and facilitation of community awareness workshops.
Monitoring and environmental education on glacier retreat to confront drought and water scarcity in Chile
In Chile, the Fundación Glaciares Chilenos, led by young scientists and volunteers, addresses drought and the decline of water reserves. To do this, they created the public platform Latitud Glaciar and promoted education and regulatory advocacy. Among their achievements, they georeferenced 210 glaciers, reached 4.5 million people with scientific dissemination, trained more than 400 students and influenced the legislative debate for the Glacier Protection Law.
Measure
Education
Territory
N/A
Youth participation
Founded in 2017 by siblings Felipe and Constanza Espinosa, who were around 29 and 26 years old at the time, and supported by a mostly young volunteer team. Youth lead research, web design, dissemination on networks and school talks on the cryosphere and climate emergency.
Participatory construction of community charters to adapt to extreme climate events in Brazil
The Climate Bills of Rights are political and pedagogical instruments, led by young people, built in a participatory way to identify vulnerabilities and formulate demands for climate adaptation. Created by the Climate Reality Project Brasil, from the Brazil Climate Center (CBC), they have already resulted in 19 Letters launched in all 5 regions and 6 biomes of Brazil, plus an international letter bringing together 8 Latin American countries, mobilizing more than 600 people in territorial meetings.
Measure
Policy
Territory
Amazon, Caatinga, Cerrado, Atlantic Forest, Pampa and Pantanal
Youth participation
In each territory, young leaders are trained through the course "Building Charters of Climate Rights" and begin to coordinate listening and mobilization of their communities, including older leaders. A Young Ambassador for Climate created the Charter for Pará workers.
Adaptive management of Amazonian mangroves by extractive youth in the face of rising sea levels on the coast of Pará
Rede Cuíra is a collective of 13 youth groups, with around 60 black and indigenous young people from 14 Extractive Reserves and 1 Environmental Protection Area on the coast of Pará, which organizes extractive youth in the defense and traditional management of Amazonian mangroves against the advance of the sea and coastal erosion. Through the project "Voltando às minhas raízes" (Fundo Brasil), it has already trained 40 young leaders and reached 584 people directly and 1,168 indirectly in 21 communities.
Measure
Coastal area
Territory
Amazonia
Youth participation
The network operates horizontally between the 13 youth groups: young people from different Resex meet at the Mangrove Youth Conferences to exchange experiences and build the network's action plan together, instead of receiving it ready-made from outside. Each Resex maintains its own local young leadership, such as Erivelton Nascimento Chaves (Soure) and Gê Monteiro (Mestre Lucindo).
Early warning system for the protection of forests and communities against forest fires created in Argentina
Wildfires are detected late and spread before response arrives. Satellites on Fire, created in Argentina by young people, is an early warning platform that combines satellite images, cameras on towers and artificial intelligence to detect fires in minutes, send alerts by WhatsApp, SMS or email and estimate how the fire will spread. It currently operates in 21 countries and monitors 50 million hectares.
Measure
Other
Territory
Global reach
Youth participation
The youth lead the project from its conception, technical development and management. In 2020, at just 16 years old, its founders programmed the first predictive algorithms with AI to respond to forest fires in Córdoba. They validated the technology together with fire stations and local brigades, consolidating a solution that scaled to the regional level under the direction of a team made up mainly of young professionals.
Ecological restoration and afforestation of native species in the face of fires in Argentina
RestaurAcción, an Eco House program launched in 2021 with youth participation, restores degraded areas and forests with native species in eight Argentine provinces, creating biodiversity corridors together with communities, municipalities, schools and companies to strengthen the resilience of ecosystems in the face of climate change. It has already planted more than 13,000 native specimens in more than 60 community restoration events, with more than 8,000 people involved.
Young people participate in community planting and restoration events and receive socio-environmental training. The program is articulated with the Eco House Network of Schools for Sustainable Development to train environmental leaders, and seeks to generate youth leadership opportunities.
Environmental education and food resilience through food rescue and recycling in Tenango del Valle, State of Mexico
In central Mexico, drought and water stress affect food systems and increase the vulnerability of families with fewer resources. In Tenango del Valle, the SUSANA youth initiative strengthens local food resilience: it rescues food that is about to expire and turns it into food pantries for vulnerable families, with school and community brigades that also recycle PET to finance the operation. In 2025 it will benefit around 1,700 people.
Measure
Education
Territory
Temperate mountain ranges
Youth participation
SUSANA was created by Nally García Medina and is led by young people, who organize school and community brigades to collect PET and food, raise awareness among students about recycling and using food, and set up food pantries for vulnerable families.
Strengthening coastal capacities and resilience through mangroves in Río Lagartos, Yucatán
In Río Lagartos (Yucatán), in the face of rising sea levels and coastal vulnerability, the Raíces project (WWF Mexico and UNDP Mexico) articulates the protection and restoration of mangroves with the strengthening of community capacities. In this framework, 150 primary, secondary and high school students participated in the Environmental Challenge, designing local mangrove conservation proposals for climate resilience and receiving the Resilience Badge.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Tropical dry forests
Youth participation
Youth act as key agents in the community protection of mangroves within the Raíces project, promoted by WWF Mexico and UNDP Mexico. Through the Environmental Challenge in three local schools, 150 students were trained as ecological stewards and designed local adaptation and resilience initiatives.
Community mangrove restoration with a gender perspective in Yucatán, Mexico
In Chelem, Progreso (Yucatán), in the face of rising sea levels and coastal erosion, the intergenerational community brigade "Las Chelemeras" implements ecological restoration of mangroves with leadership of young women. Through manual opening of hydrological channels, clearing and reforestation of black mangrove, they recovered more than 50 hectares of ecosystem that function as a natural coastal protection barrier for the fishing community.
Measure
Ecosystem restoration
Territory
Tropical dry forests
Youth participation
The intergenerational women's brigade has young leadership: Leslie Daniela Ruiz Hernández received the 2024 Youth Merit Award for this project. The youngest members take on the heavier manual tasks, such as opening channels and removing sediment.
Restoration of native highland forests (Polylepis australis) as a strategy for adaptation to drought and protection of hydrological basins in the mountains of Córdoba, Argentina
In the mountains of Córdoba (Argentina), the loss of high-altitude native tabaquillo (Polylepis australis) forests degraded the basins that supply water to 80% of the provincial population. Bosques de Agua, a project led by youth, reforests and restores these forests in the Pampa de Achala Water Reserve to recover soil water regulation in the face of increasingly extreme and frequent droughts. He has already planted 450,000 tabaquillos and incorporated 209 hectares into a nature reserve.
Measure
Water
Territory
Dry Chaco
Youth participation
The initiative was created in 2021 by Juan Manuel Martín (32 years old) and Juan Pablo Moretto (29 years old) and a large part of the more than 700 volunteers who participated in planting and nursery days are young people and students who individually joined the organization's open calls.
Installation of climate shelters as an adaptation measure to urban heat islands in Córdoba, Argentina
In Córdoba, Argentina, heat waves affect the wait time of public transportation users, especially older adults and people with disabilities. Shelters 360 is a pilot project promoted by young FAUD-UNC students that adapts a bus stop by incorporating a green roof, sunshades and vertical modules with vegetation, with the aim of reducing the heat island effect and improving the accessibility of the space.
Measure
Health
Territory
Espinal
Youth participation
Young people are the protagonists of this project. Students of Architecture (FAUD-UNC) and Electronic Engineering (FRC-UTN) designed and technically developed the prototype, participated in co-design tables and in the site survey, and articulated with municipal actors and companies.
Planned relocation and community support in the face of sea level rise in El Bosque, Tabasco
Faced with rising sea levels and coastal erosion in El Bosque (Tabasco), the youth organization Nuestro Futuro A.C., made up of young women, accompanied the community legally and socially in the process that culminated in 2024 with the first official climate relocation in Mexico: 51 families were moved to safe homes. The case positioned climate displacement on the national and international adaptation agenda.
Measure
Infrastructure
Territory
Tropical moist forests
Youth participation
Nuestro Futuro A.C., made up mostly of young women, has legally supported the relocation of El Bosque. Community youth leaders have also emerged that defend their rights and participate in national and international advocacy spaces, such as the IACHR and ADAPTAMX.
