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BrazilExtreme events

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.

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BrazilFlood

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.

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BrazilExtreme events

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.

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BrazilSea level rise

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).

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