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STORY: STOCKHOLM / STOCKHOLM +50 YOUTH
TRT: 2:40
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 01 AND 03 JUNE 2022, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
01 JUNE 2022, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
1. Wide shot, exteriors
03 JUNE 2022, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
2. Wide shot, meeting room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Jayathma Wickramanayake, Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth:
“First, the people most affected by COVID19, who are also the most vulnerable and marginalized before the pandemic must be front and center in the recovery. This includes young people who are not only disproportionately affected, but are also the ones who will inherit the consequences of the decisions that are made today.”
4. Wide shot, meeting room
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Jayathma Wickramanayake, Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth:
“Young people, especially young women, are often sidelined or excluded from decision making. Sustainable and inclusive recovery depends on young people's engagement and their ownership as full-fledged partners and not as beneficiaries. If the diversity of our communities are reflected in the tables that make decisions on the COVID19 recovery, then we will make better and more inclusive decisions for people and for the planet.”
6. Wide shot, meeting room
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Jayathma Wickramanayake, Secretary-General's Envoy on Youth:
“Young people are demanding action on protecting digital rights, including the rights to be connected. They are calling on governments to build sustainable digital ecosystems and businesses to adopt rights respecting technologies that cause no harm to people and to the planet. So I hope at Stockholm+50, we can all commit towards a world where the interests and needs of younger and future generations are valued over short term political gain and profit.”
8. Wide shot, meeting room
9. Wide shot, climate activists at Stockholm+50
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Sumaiya Harunany, Climate Activist from Kenya:
“Our message is very clear. Stop the fossil drilling. We have the solutions. Let's implement them. We have the knowledge. Let's use it. And we have nature. Let us restore her. We cannot eat coal. We cannot drink oil, and we cannot adapt to loss and damage.”
11. Wide shot, climate activists at Stockholm+50
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Isaac Ssentumbwe, Climate Activist from Uganda:
“Stop financing projects and instead seek opportunities to finance genuine renewable infrastructures to help meet the region energy needs and in a clean and right compatible manner in the decades to come. And all we ask for as the young people, all we ask for our people back home is climate justice.”
13. Wide shot, climate activists at Stockholm+50
Speaking at a leadership dialogue event, UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake said, a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the pandemic “depends on young people's engagement and their ownership as full-fledged partners and not as beneficiaries.”
A leadership dialogue named “achieving a sustainable and inclusive recovery from the coronavirus disease pandemic” was held today (03 Jun) at the Stockholm+50.
UN Youth Envoy Jayathma Wickramanayake said that the only way to truly rebuild and recover from the COVID19 pandemic and other compounding crisis is to do it in a sustainable and inclusive manner. This requires transformational change at a systems level, meaning we need to change not only what we do but how we do it.
Jayathma shared three key recommendations. First, she said, “the people most affected by COVID19, who are also the most vulnerable and marginalized before the pandemic must be front and center in the recovery. This includes young people who are not only disproportionately affected, but are also the ones who will inherit the consequences of the decisions that are made today.”
She continued, “young people especially young women, are often sidelined or excluded from decision making, adding that “if the diversity of our communities are reflected in the tables that make decisions on the COVID19 recovery, then we will make better and more inclusive decisions for people and for the planet.”
Second, she said that investing in key sectors are pivotal to ensuring positive, transformational and systemic change. Especially green, digital and key economies. This also includes investments in universal quality and relevant education and training. Decent jobs and protection. Social protection as enablers. And accelerators for an inclusive and sustainable recovery.
Lastly, digital development and connectivity is key. The Youth Envoy reiterated, “young people are demanding action on protecting digital rights, including the rights to be connected. They are calling on governments to build sustainable digital ecosystems and businesses to adopt rights respecting technologies that cause no harm to people and to the planet.”
Jaythema said, “I hope at Stockholm+50, so we can all commit towards a world where the interests and needs of younger and future generations are valued over short term political gain and profit.
At Stockholm+50, youth climate activists also gathered to voice their concerns.
Sumaiya Harunany, a climate activist from Kenya said, “our message is very clear. Stop the fossil drilling. We have the solutions. Let's implement them. We have the knowledge. Let's use it. And we have nature. Let us restore her. We cannot eat coal. We cannot drink oil, and we cannot adapt to loss and damage.”
Isaac Ssentumbwe, a climate activist from Uganda said that more investment should be made in renewable infrastructures to “help meet the region energy needs and in a clean and right compatible manner in the decades to come.”
He said, “all we ask for as the young people, all we ask for our people back home is climate justice.”
