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T1 Youth Encounter for Sustainability
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 environmental education
K1 university and college
K1 higher education
K1 partnership
YR 2014
FD 2014-02
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/12213
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/12213
NO The Youth Encounter on Sustainability (YES) was established in 2000 to help develop the leadership capacity for a sustainable future.This was as a result to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in 1992 - “Agenda 21”. Agenda 21 called for allnations to “develop and put into effect their own national strategies, plans and policies for sustainable development, and to be preparedto deal with the common challenges facing human kind”. The YES program ‘Equips Young Leaders to Address Global Challenges’(sustainable development, energy systems, urban planning, ecosystem management, food and water, governance and entrepreneurshipamong others disciplines) through trans-disciplinary and transcultural teaching, debates, workshops, discussions, projects, case studies,group work.
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 16, 2026