Coventry should sign up to the UN Youth and Civil Society Pledge
The UN Youth and Civil Society Pledge is one of the planned outcomes of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Action Summit to be held in New York on 23 September 2019.
UN member states, regions and cities would pledge to consult youth and the public in the formulation and implementation of climate action policies. Coventry has already undertaken to do exactly this in its public consultation in over the new Climate Strategy.
This is an opportunity for Coventry to lead the world in one aspect climate change public engagement.