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Youth Climate Impact Alliance (YCIA)

A Future Shaped By Youth Themselves

A participatory platform where youth action expands into global impact through solidarity and capacity building.

About This Program

This participatory alliance program integrates diverse practical programs of youth in Korea and abroad into a single hub, and connects the collective voice of youth to the global forum, thereby maximizing impact.

BGI aims to function as both a bridge and a forum for public discourse, enabling youth action to continuously expand and become formalized.

Core Activities

Policy Proposal Support

Serve as a channel to deliver creative action ideas to domestic and international policymakers, while supporting related networks.

Youth Solidarity Conference

Operate a regular consultative body where domestic and international youth organizations come together to discuss responses to future crises, including climate and the environment, and to produce joint declarations.

Global Youth Voices

Support youth organizations in hosting joint events within the international community so that they can lead global discourse.

How It Works

Youth Organizations

Moving beyond one-off actions, establishing sustainable networks, formally documenting outcomes, and expanding access to domestic and international policy channels.

Partners

Providing various forms of support, such as office space and funding, to enable the sustainable activities of youth organizations, and connecting mentoring from relevant domestic and international institutions to help expand youth initiatives.

BGI

Connecting youth organizations with relevant domestic and international institutions, serving as a forum for knowledge and experience sharing.

Who's Involved

클리마투스 컬리지
우리들의 미래
GEYK
GYCC

Expected Impact

SDG Contributions

SDG 6 - Clean Water & Sanitation
SDG 7 - Affordable & Clean Energy
SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities & Communities
SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption & Production
SDG 13 - Climate Action
SDG 14 - Life Below Water
SDG 15 - Life on Land

Youth

Expansion of a solidarity-based foundation, formal recognition, and opportunities to access global policy

Partners

Substantive ESG management, and identification of talent and ideas

BGI

A neutral SDGs hub, connecting youth, policy, and global forums

Roadmap

2026
  • Launch of BGI and signing of MOUs with key domestic and international partners
  • Official launch declaration of the Youth Climate Impact Alliance
  • Launch of BGI’s first global campaign
2027 - 2029
  • Identification of global agendas and establishment of regional impact hubs
  • Establishment of the Global Youth Voices events as a recurring initiative
  • Continuation of activities and expansion of impact

For a Better Future, For a Better World

When your support connects the voices of youth, change becomes reality.