Frank Siebern-Thomas, Head of Fair, Green, and Digital Transitions, Research Unit, DG Employment - Social Affairs and Inclusion at the European Commission, and Agata Meysner, President of Generation Climate Europe, the largest coalition of youth-led networks on climate and environmental issues at the European level, will highlight the challenges and opportunities that are shaping the biggest labour and environmental transformations of our time, shedding light on the importance of enabling youth in just transition discourses, activism, and policymaking.
This public event takes place in the context of the international policy workshop Enabling the Youth for Just Transitions, co-organized by the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy and UNRISD. The workshop takes place in the context of the AHCD project Protest and Engagement, from the Global to the Local: Mapping the Forms of Youth Participation In Europe.