Highlights of the Youth We Can! afterwork – Juniors, seniors: together, we are stronger!Every second Wednesday of each month, the Youth We Can! Afterworks shines the light on committed and passionate young people who share their experiences and their vision of...
On September 6th, the Youth We Can! initiative held its annual event as part of the 12th Convergences World Forum in Paris. Young people and adults gathered at the Grand Auditorium of the Palais Brongniart to discuss youth engagement for climate. A look back at this...
Digital tools and sustainable development goals (SDGs), which synergies? In this interview, Antoine Bertout, Director of Famoco, fintechs specialized in payment systems, takes a look at this essential question for the achievement of SDGs.To what extent do digital...
Although the increase in the carbon tax in France was not the main reason for the upsurge in energy prices in 2018, it was nevertheless this tax that catalysed broad discontent and gave rise to the yellow vest movement. After being “frozen” at its 2018 level by the...
No one is unemployable, there are many useful activities and money is not lacking. These are the three premises on which the “no more long term unemployment in local communities” (TZCLD) experimentation is based. Initiated by Patrick Valentin, vice-president of the...
According to the United Nations, USD 5,000 to 7,000 billion of global investments are required annually by 2030 to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including $ 4,500 billion in emerging countries and markets1. Official development assistance for the...
While the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) have achieved results, particularly in reducing extreme poverty1, they have been widely criticised for turning the extremely poor into the “relatively poor”2. Ban Ki Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations from 2007...
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) offer vast potential for women and girls; from ending poverty, to improving education and health, to agricultural productivity, and creating decent jobs”.This quote from Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN...
History will probably remember her as the initiator of a global revolution. When Greta Thunberg started her high school climate strike in August 2018 – every Friday, in front of Stockholm’s Parliament – she put climate issues on front page news. While alone at first,...
Protests about the climate emergency are on the rise and are calling for a fair ecological transition. Young people are undertaking climate strikes and, in recent months, some yellow vests have even joined the movement asking for a green and yellow convergence, under...
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