The Global Indigenous Youth Summit on Climate Change (GIYSCC), now in its third year, will take place again on August 9th – circling the Earth with the Sun across three 8-hour regions in 24 hours (00:00-24:00 GMT) on the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples during this International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032.
In its first two years, GIYSCC-2023 and GIYSCC-2024 involved 2100+ registrants from 136 nations representing 280+ languages. Please see the archive on the GIYSCC-2025 website.
On this Earth Day – on behalf of the Indigenous Youth Leaders with this “virtual dialogue by, for and among Indigenous youth with global inclusion” – it is an honour as well as pleasure to share that the GIYSCC-2025 registration is open!
The GIYSCC-2025 theme is “Water and Society”, welcoming Indigenous youth contributions from:
- Region 1: Asia and Oceania (00-00-08:00 GMT);
- Region 2: Africa, Europe, Middle East (08:00-16:00 GMT); and
- Region 3: South America, North America, Arctic (16:00-24:00 GMT).
As a legacy contribution – with their invited Nature Commentary that “Indigenous Youth Must be at the Forefront of Climate Diplomacy” – the GIYSCC-2023 Indigenous Youth Leaders initiated a Global Partnership of Indigenous Youth in the spirit of SDG 17, addressing climate action with SDG 13 and quality education with SDG 4 as well as with other United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).
Additionally, the GIYSCC-2023 Indigenous Youth Leaders have contracted with Springer to produce two volumes in the Informed Decisionmaking for Sustainability book series:
- (Volume 1) Climate Action with Global Inclusion: Youth Leadership, Indigenous Knowledge, and Climate Resilience; and
- (Volume 2) Climate Action with Global Inclusion: Social, Historical, and Governance Dimensions of Climate Change in Indigenous Territories.
