✨ Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from all of us at YEE! ✨ Wishing you all a peaceful festive season. See you in the New Year! 🧡

🚨 Environment ministers: follow the call of more than 200 organisations across Europe and be the hero that people and nature need Protect wolves, even when the EU didn’t. We cannot accept this weakening of the laws #HandsOffNature @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Reflecting on #COP30, our SG Stephanny highlights our core mission: putting youth, workers, communities, and science at the center of climate finance and adaptation. The ambition gap is still there. We are still watching. 👀

10 years of the #ParisAgreement. The verdict? 🌍 YEE was at the European Parliament yesterday with Teresa Ribera and climate scientists. The conclusion is clear: we have not done enough. To secure a livable future, We need rapid decarbonisation of our economies, not more delays. #ClimateAction #EU

YEE is in the room where decisions happen. 🇪🇺 Last week, Priscila Mallmann Bianchetti represented Youth and Environment Europe at the Council of Europe for the 5th meeting of the Multidisciplinary Group on the Environment (GME).

Today, on #HumanRightsDay, we are reminded that human rights are not abstract ideals, but lived realities. And one whose protection stands urgent is the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. 🌱 1/5

Read our Secretary General reflections about #COP30 👇🏼

All I want for the holidays is housing we can all afford 💌 Dec 16 the EU unveils a housing plan that could lower rents, cut energy bills & rein in AirBnB rentals. Until then postcards from across Europe are landing on Dan Jørgensen’s desk. 👉 Send yours (free, in minutes): go.wemove.eu/housingxmas

🌎 Gender Day at #COP30 EJF’s Brazil Chief Representative Luciana Leite participated in a panel organised by Brazil’s First Lady & Special Envoy for Women, Janja Lula da Silva. They discussed the impact the #ClimateCrisis has on women and how they are leading the charge to find climate solutions.

🇹🇷 It’s official: Turkey will host #COP31! But wait, weren't Australia & the Pacific Islands the favorites? Here’s the background: for over a year, the WEOG group was locked in a stalemate. With both bids on the table and no consensus, we faced a real risk of the conference defaulting to Bonn.

#COP30 has been evacuated because of a fire in the pavillion areas. YEE delegation is safe! More info coming soon.

🔥 The world is burning, flooding and drying at the same time... and adaptation finance is nowhere near enough. 🚒 EU must commit to at least tripling it — and stop pouring money into fossil fuels. ✊ At #COP30, we call ADAPTATION FINANCE NOW!

President Lula spoke on the eve of #COP30 closing and while much work still needs to be done there’s one clear: it’s time to make polluters pay. #MakePollutersPay #RespectTheAmazon

We have had 48+ hours of radio silence at #COP30. No new texts. The negotiations are happening behind closed doors with little scrutiny. We are here to push for an ambitious outcome – but it is becoming more and more difficult if the door does not open.

Youth are the ones who live longest with the consequences of today’s decisions. At #COP30, youth of European climate movement stand up for intergenerational justice — echoing the ICJ ruling that ambitious climate action is a legal duty, not a political choice. Our future & planet are not for sale!

📹 YEE LIVE FROM #cop30 Currently on the first contact group negotiation for the Just Transition Work Programme, we are very excited to see the support that G77+China are giving to the BAM! Hope that the EU and the rest of Global North countries follow suit in supporting it too

Ten years after Paris, only 3% of climate finance supports #JustTransition policies. 1,000 organisations call for a #JustTransition that makes climate work for the people who live its consequences. Read and sign: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #COP30 #JustTransitionRising #BAM

WHERE'S YOUR AMBITION? In 2023 nations agreed to move away from fossil fuels. Now leaders of rich countries aren’t even offering to do the bare minimum. None have committed to phasing out fossil fuels. 👉 climatenetwork.org/resource/ndc... #COP30 #ShowSomeAmbition #NDCNotGoodEnough #NDCs

Vulnerable hormonal systems + Unrealistic beauty standards + Lack of awareness = Need for regulation of the Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals!

✊ #COP30 in Brazil must be the turning point. The EU & the Global North must own up to their responsibility. 📣 On 14–15 Nov, we will take to the streets all around the world to #DrawTheLine. @climateeurope.bsky.social @yeenetwork.bsky.social @wemoveeurope.bsky.social @actionaideu.bsky.social

Most chemical safety regulations still ignore the fact that we are simultaneously exposed to a mixture of hundreds of substances from various sources.

@srenvironment.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social @saskiakluit.bsky.social @sumarslan.bsky.social

Mélinda Martins represented YEE at the Pan-European Climate Resilience Summit in Vienna. 🌍 She shared how youth networks are key to driving climate action. It's incredibly inspiring to see science, policy, and youth voices unite for a common goal. We're so proud of her!

🌱 Wrapped up an inspiring week in Strasbourg with young environmental defenders. Learning, connecting & building power for environmental justice. 💚✊ #YEE #EnvironmentalJustice

The struggle for a livable planet is inseparable from the struggle for human rights and dignity.

As climate advocates, we cannot be neutral in the face of genocide and systemic oppression. We stand with Palestine and denounce attacks on civic space and youth voices across Europe. Justice and liberation are essential to climate justice. 🔗 Full statement: lnkd.in/dAhSiYQR

The ICJ’s decision on July 23 can redefine international obligations, making it clear that polluters cannot evade responsibility. It will mark a turning point where legal clarity can push for systemic change and for the protection of future generations. 🧵2/3 #ClimateJusticeAtTheICJ

15 July marked the EU Day for Victims of the Global Climate Crisis. YEE’s Alexandros Kassapis joined to share his story on the devastating fires in Greece — and the urgent call for #climatejustice. Watch his powerful words 👇 What do you think about it? www.instagram.com/p/DMLGv0MN_JA/ #YEE

The Climate Action Leadership Programme (CALP) is a unique opportunity for 18 - 35 year olds in Scotland to grow as leaders and take action! Find out more and apply by the 29th of July at midnight: www.2050.scot/calp #Youth #Scotland #Climate #Leadership

Una de las tendencias más preocupantes son las SLAPP (demandas estratégicas contra la participación pública): un arma jurídica utilizada por grandes empresas para silenciar y desgastar a activistas, periodistas y organizaciones ambientales, sociales o económicas www.elsaltodiario.com/tribuna/juic...

What if the Grand Duchess Charlotte had been silenced? 🤐 This morning, we gagged the statue of the Grand Duchess Charlotte to denounce the growing number of SLAPPs – abusive lawsuits used to silence us. 📣 We stand with all those fighting for democracy across Europe today. #StopSLAPPs #TimeToResist

📣 Join us at #SB62, side event: Advancing the Right to a Healthy Environment at the Council of Europe. 🎤 With @samirabenali.bsky.social @duycks.bsky.social & Stephanny Ulivieri. 📍 Hosted by @yeenetwork.bsky.social @ciel.org & WYCJ #SB62 #righttoahealthyenvironment

Last week, our representatives Lizzie and Sophia attended the Wolves Across Borders Conference 🐺 During the conference, they explored human-wolf coexistence. They highlighted how vital youth perspectives are in shaping long-term conservation strategies. #WolvesAcrossBorders #YEE

📉 Only 50% of #EUNECP policies and measures align with needed emissions cuts in key sectors like transport & buildings. 📊 Most lack funding plans. Read the full civil society assessment of National Energy and Climate Plans👉 caneurope.org/content/uplo...

📣 YEE proudly co-signed this powerful position paper alongside civil society organisations from across Europe, coordinated by the Democracy for Transition Coalition. 👉 Read the full paper: meta.eeb.org/2025/05/26/e... #Democracy4Transition #EUDemocracyShield

The EU Democracy Shield is a chance to defend democracy under threat — and to build one that's future-proof. With broad support from environmental and democracy focused organisations, the Democracy for Transition Coalition lays out its position 👉 eeb.org/library/eu-d...

Big news! YEE has been elected Vice President of the @eeb.org Executive Board. We’re proud to amplify youth voices for a just and sustainable Europe. Let’s make change happen! #ClimateAction #EEB #Sustainability

The climate, pollution & biodiversity crisis is harming our health, says Denis Fernando of @friends-earth.bsky.social At next week's @coe.int meeting, Ministers must support a binding instrument legally protecting the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll - foundational to all human rights!

A liveable future for young people & children is a right, not a luxury! As CRIN's Niamh Purcell says, legal protection of the right to a healthy environment would prove the @coe.int is serious about youth & climate justice. Ministers in Luxembourg, we count on your allyship!

"It’s outrageous that in 2025, Europe still hasn’t legally recognized the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll as a basic human right." Today, @coe.int46 member states missed again a key opportunity to legally protect this important right in Europe. Our reaction: www.ciel.org/news/coe-lag...

1/2 Activists from Greenpeace, ASTM, and Fairtrade Lëtzebuerg gathered outside the European Convention Center in Luxembourg to demand the right to a healthy environment for all. 🌍✊

States must act now in a global environmental crisis. Former UN Rapporteur @drdavidboyd.bsky.social urges @coe.int Ministers meeting in Luxembourg to start negotiating a binding instrument on the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll. You've backed it at the UN, now make it real for Europe!

In East Serbia, communities like Bor face water pollution and barren landscapes while mining profits take priority. The @coe.int must legally protect the right to a healthy environment to guarantee the rights of people like student Dejan!

No one should have to fight for clean air, safe water & a healthy planet! We fully agree with Aurora Floridia, Senator and member of @pace.coe.int. It’s time @coe.int Ministers commit to making a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll an enforceable right through a binding instrument!

🏆 In 2025, we’ll launch the first edition of the Civil Dialogue Award! 👉🏼 Read more: bit.ly/43jnEhK Do you or someone you know within an EU institution, agency, or body regularly engage with civil society? Then you may be who we’re looking for! #EUCivilSociety #CivilDialogueAward

MAJOR VICTORY! The Norwegian Supreme Court has ruled in favour of @greenpeace.no and @naturogungdom.bsky.social against the Norwegian State! Three illegal oil and gas fields were approved them without assessing their global climate impact - and must be shut down immediately. #ClimateJustice

Thank you, Aurora Floridia, for your support for the legal protection of the right to a #HealthyEnvironmentForAll at the @coe.int! @pace.coe.int members are once again showing leadership on this crucial issue. Ministers must do the same at their May meeting - time to act NOW & recognise the right!

Last weekend we gathered in artsy spaces and outdoor places to discuss environmental corruption and the case of the destruction of river ecosystems in Athens, Greece. 🇬🇷 Through non-formal education methods, we examined the Kifissos river ecosystem and the legislation. #ReFlowKifissos

Happy #WorldAquaticAnimalDay! 🐟 🐙 🦀 Today we celebrate these incredible and unique animals, who are too often excluded from welfare protections. 🔦Spotlight on bluefin tunas below - these complex, sentient beings certainly don't belong in factory farms.

On Friday, 7 March we took #Aarhus rights to the #UniversityofEasternFinland! Together with students, we explored how young people can hold governments accountable by submitting legal complaints to the EU Commission.