Dear All,   I hope you are doing well. We are pleased to share several exciting opportunities in the climate space that may be of interest to members of our Community of Practice. Please note that the purpose of this communication is solely to inform you of available opportunities and does not come with any funding commitment from us or any guarantee of participation. Youth Global Forum 2026  Youth Global Forum 2026 is a one-of-a-kind international gathering that brings together young changemakers from around the world to lead dialogue on the future they want to build. Organized by the Centre for Global Dialogue and Leadership (CGDL), an independent Canadian public policy institute, the forum aligns with key European Union youth frameworks, including the EU Youth Strategy 2019–2027, the EU Youth Dialogue, and the European Youth Work Agenda. Location: Madrid, Spain Conference Dates: January 15 – 18, 2026 Submission Deadline: November 25, 2025 Read more and submit your applications Weekly Bulletin Issue 35: October 5 - 11, 2025 https://thecgdl.org/ygf2026/ Youth Climate Change Conference 2025 The Youth Climate Change Conference 2025 will bring together inspiring young people from across Namibia to share ideas, learn, and take action toward building climate-resilient communities. This two-day event will provide a platform for youth voices to shape the future of climate action in Namibia. It is open to young people aged 18 to 35 years who are passionate about environmental issues and climate action.    Location: Ondangwa, Namibia Application Deadline: October 19, 2025 Conference Dates: November 4-5, 2025 Read more and submit your applications 14th UNESCO Youth Forum The 14th edition of the Youth Forum, held immediately before UNESCO’s General Conference, will focus on the theme, “Climate Action and Social Impacts, particularly for young people”. This echoes the call from youth leaders around the world: climate action cannot wait. The Forum will identify ways to accelerate progress to achieve more impactful climate action and positive social change.   Location: Samarkand, Uzbekistan Conference Dates: October 27-28, 2025 Read more and submit your papers Youth Future Summit 2026  https://forms.office.com//pages/responsepage.aspx?id=TuNZ1IESlEqgsDFgaWqB7Tdll0jfEvFOnSoKfBiskh9UQVdLOTJOMFZNT1JIQVZZMUNUQUROOVlUSi4u&fromie=true https://indico.un.org/event/1018596/ The Youth Future Summit 2026 builds on the vision of the United Nations Summit of the Future 2024 and the World Program of Action for Youth (WPAY), creating a global platform where young leaders can shape the policies, ideas, and innovations that will define the next generation. The global capital of diplomacy, participants from over 120 countries will explore the most pressing challenges of our time, from climate action and artificial intelligence to sustainable development and global governance, while directly engaging with the institutions and leaders driving change worldwide    Location: Geneva, Switzerland Conference Dates: February 5-8, 2025 Read more and register to attend Our Planet, Our Health: 2026 Climate Action Convention The 2026 Our Planet, Our Health Convention will convene health professionals, researchers, community leaders, and policy experts to tackle one of the most urgent issues of our time: the growing impact of climate change on health. Held in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, the convention provides a unique opportunity to shape a tiered local to national agenda at the intersection of climate and health—at a critical time as climate disasters grow worse and federal action is stalling.   Location: Arlington, Virginia & Online Convention Dates: February 28 – March 3, 2026 Read more and apply IPCC Cities Reviewer Webinar https://thecips.org/yfs2026/ https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/2026-our-planet-our-health-convention/ Wellcome Trust has partnered with the University of Alberta to support experts across the climate and health sector to be involved in the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) process. The IPCC Cities Reviewer Webinar will help potential reviewers learn more about becoming a reviewer for the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities First Order Draft (FOD).   Location: Nairobi, Kenya Conference Date: 15 October 2025 Read more and register to attend Call for Expressions of Interest - MENA Hub for Action Research on Climate Change & Health (MARCH) The MENA Hub for Action Research on Climate Change & Health (MARCH) is pleased to announce the Call for Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for the MENA Hub for Action Research on Climate Change & Health (MARCH). Eligible academic organizations and research institutes are invited to participate in this call to advance research in the MENA region on environmentally sustainable and climate-resilient health systems.   Submission Deadline: Wednesday, November 12, 2025. Read more and make your submissions Call for Applications: FLN Delegates 2026 https://ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IPqnZ8-mRcOh2UShZKZFRA#/registration https://www.aub.edu.lb/MARCH/Pages/-call-for-proposals.aspx Are you passionate about making change? Are you keen to learn more about how international negotiations work? Are you determined to ensure that young people are included in the process of climate policy and decision-making? The Future Leaders Network is seeking passionate young people to represent us as part of our delegations to the Y7, Y20 and COP.   Application Deadline: November 28, 2025 Application Outcome: January 23, 2026 Read more and register to attend Climate Change and Human Health Seed Grants The Burroughs Wellcome Fund aims to stimulate the growth of new connections between thinkers working in largely disconnected fields, who, together, may change the course of climate change’s impact on human health. The Fund is primarily, but not exclusively, interested in activities that build connections between basic and early biomedical scientific approaches and ecological, environmental, geological, geographic, and planetary-scale thinking. Public outreach, climate communication, and education efforts focused on the intersection of climate and health are also appropriate for this call.   Application Deadline: Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis through July 2026. A review will be conducted quarterly. Award value: Between $2,500–$50,000 Read more and apply https://futureleaders.network/delegate-applications/ https://www.averydennison.com/en/home/company/avery-dennison-foundation/grantmaking.html#process PCP WISE Call for Tenders The PCP WISE group of 12 buyers has officially launched its Call for Tenders to co-develop next-generation water intelligence products and services powered by Earth Observation (EO). This three-phase Pre- Commercial Procurement (PCP) will fund R&D services from solution design to prototype development and field validation, targeting TRL 8 solutions. The aim is to create innovative EO-powered intelligence tools to monitor the Soil-Water-Vegetation (SWV) system and help predict, prevent, and manage water-related crises such as floods, fires, and droughts   Application Deadline: January 7, 2026  Award value: €11,765,339 Read more and apply Climate Skills Global Collaboration Grants As part of the Climate Skills program, the British Council will offer grants for partnerships between the UK and Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and Vietnam. The grants will support the delivery of youth green entrepreneurship training and capacity strengthening activities, developing international connections between the UK and Brazil, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Vietnam.   Application Deadline: November 14, 2025 Award value: Up to £85,000  Read more and make your submissions UNICEF Climate Innovation Challenge https://pcp-wise.eu/call-for-tenders/ https://opportunities-insight.britishcouncil.org/short-articles/opportunities/launching-soon-climate-skills-global-collaboration-grants Through the Climate Innovation Challenge, the UNICEF Venture Fund will identify, recognize and support innovators developing scalable solutions to protect children’s health and build long-term resilience of the systems they depend on for their well being. Recognizing the urgent and multidimensional threats climate change poses to children, the UNICEF Venture Fund will catalyze innovation in two key areas: Climate and health, and Climate adaptation, resilience and disaster risk management.   Application Deadline: October 21, 2025 Award value: US$100,000 Read more and submit your applications REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL (RfP) FOR THE EAST AND SOUTHERN AFRICAN REGIONAL HUB FOR RESEARCH AND POLICY ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND HEALTH 2025- 2028 This Call for Proposals welcomes applications from research entities and multi-stakeholder consortia positioned to contribute high-quality, impactful research on the climate-health nexus within Eastern and Southern Africa region. Applicants must be based in or have active collaborations within the countries indicated under the eligible countries above.    Application Deadline: October 21, 2025 Award value: Up to USD 250,000 across 2 categories Read more and submit your applications https://www.unicef.org/innovation/unicef-climate-innovation-challenge https://amref.org/eoi/east-and-southern-african-regional-hub-for-research-and-policy-on-climate-change-and-health-2025-2028-eoi-no-amref-19-09-2025-020/ ATO - ClimatEducate Project  The ClimatEducate Project is a climate change education project of the Alpha Team Organization-ATO, a Philippines-based youth non-profit organization. The project's current focus is to further create innovations and sustained outputs for climate change education (CCE). The project team believes that it will improve if open-minded and flexible climate advocates and educators will join and work with its highly diverse and objective-based project team.   Application Deadline: October 12, 2025 Read more and submit your applications HSC Youth Ambassador Program 2026 The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) is committed to fostering a just and inclusive transition toward a sustainable future, one that is shaped collaboratively with those who will be most positively impacted by it. As an HSC Youth Ambassador, you’ll have the chance to actively shape and contribute to formats taking place on the conference. Being part of the Youth Ambassador Cohort means getting engaged with the Conference, its topics and your fellow Ambassadors early in the lead-up to the conference, helping bring the HSC to life.   Application Deadline: 15 October 2025 Read more and submit your applications Sierra Leone’s Adaptation Innovation Cluster https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf692t1PnSmLf2kGYcGXfxOMWFnxkTUtVe6J0tVlkS3vw0WlA/closedform https://www.sustainability-conference.org/en/hsc26youth Join the Adaptation Innovation Cluster program and help strengthen climate resilience and entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone’s Water, Energy and Food (WEF) sectors. The Adaptation Innovation Cluster is part of the program ‘Promotion of climate adaptation technology and business model innovations and entrepreneurship in Sierra Leone – CATBIE’, which is supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), implemented by UNIDO, executed by Sierra Leone’s Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency (SMEDA) on behalf of the government of Sierra Leone.   Application Deadline: October 31, 2025 Read more and submit your applications DesirMED Climate Ambassador Application DesirMED, the EU initiative set up to help people in the Mediterranean regions adapt to climate change, is looking for 100 climate ambassadors.   Application Deadline: December 31, 2025 Read more and submit your applications Climate & Health Equity Fellowship https://www.climate-kic.org/open-call/call-to-join-sierra-leones-adaptation-innovation-cluster-driving-climate-solutions-in-the-water-energy-and-food-sectors/ https://www.climate-kic.org/open-call/desirmed-climate-ambassador/ The Climate and Health Equity Fellowship was launched by the Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health and the National Medical Association, in recognition of the fact that climate change is both a health emergency and a major health equity issue. The purpose of this fellowship is to increase the number of physician leaders in climate and health equity from racial/ethnic groups that are underrepresented in medicine (URiM).    Application Deadline: 15 November 2025 Read more and submit your applications Dalai Lama 2026 Fellowship Program 2026 Dalai Lama Fellowship is seeking 15-20 changemakers from around the world for the 2026 Dalai Lama Fellows program. Applicants should have a current engagement with or well-articulated plans for a social change project and sustained engagement with the project throughout the fellowship year.   Application Deadline: 10 November 2025 Read more and submit your applications Hazel M. Johnson Fellowship Programme https://medsocietiesforclimatehealth.org/latest-news/open-now-2025-climate-health-equity-fellowship-applications/?utm_source=chatgpt.com https://asiafoundation.org/programs/education-and-leadership/leadex/asia-foundation-development-fellows/ Applications for partner organizations to participate in the 2026 Hazel M. Johnson Fellowship Program are now open.  To help combat historic discrimination and lack of compensation in the environmental and climate space, Black Girl Environmentalist launched the Hazel M. Johnson Fellowship to uplift early-career Black women, gender-expansive people, and others in the United States.   Application Deadline: 14 November 2025 Read more and submit your application UNU-WIDER Visiting Scholars Programme 2025 The Hamburg Sustainability Conference (HSC) is committed to fostering a just and inclusive transition toward a sustainable future, one that is shaped collaboratively with those who will be most positively impacted by it. The HSC Youth Ambassador Program addresses this imbalance by providing a platform for young changemakers to contribute their perspectives, shape the conversation, and influence global action.   Registration Deadline: 15 October 2025 Read more and submit your applications   If you have relevant opportunities to share with the Community of Practice, please send them to Gina Edward-Uwadiale at G.edward-uwadiale@cgiar.org for inclusion in future communications. https://blackgirlenvironmentalist.org/hazel-m-johnson https://www.sustainability-conference.org/en/hsc26youth mailto:G.edward-uwadiale@cgiar.org