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CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2025

T he CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2025 will constitute a ten (10) member gender-balanced group from Africa (one from each region: Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central), Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Small Island Developing States, ensuring a fair representation of the global youth adaptation movement.

Roles and responsibilies

Members of the Youth Advisory Panel 2025 will drive youth engagement with the adaptation agenda with GCA. Specifically, they will:

Provide advice to promote youth engagement in the adaptation agenda.
Engage with GCA’s work including sub-regional Youth Adaptation Forums and training.
Support advocacy efforts, such as amplifying adaptation campaigns including the Youth Climate Adaptation Action Day, promoting youth perspectives in adaptation policy- and decision-making, and engaging with the Youth Adaptation Network through Youth Adaptation Forums.
Raise awareness amongst young people on the adaptation agenda and amplify educational resources such as the Toolkit for Youth on Adaptation & Leadership.

Membership
The term of the CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2025 is one year, from January to December 2025.

Contact
For any questions, please contact the Youth Leadership and Education team at youth@gca.org. 

Call for Application: Youth Advisory Panel 2025

At the Global Center on Adaptation’s Youth Exchange Dinner at COP29, the Global Center on Adaptation (GCA) opened the call for applications for GCA CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2025. GCA is seeking 10 young people to join the Youth Advisory Panel 2025. The call will be open from the 15th to the 24th of November 2025.

What is GCA CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel?
The CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2025 will constitute a ten (10) member gender-balanced group from Africa (one from each region: Eastern, Western, Northern, Southern and Central), Asia, Europe, the Americas, Oceania, and Small Island Developing States, ensuring a fair representation of the youth adaptation movement.

The first panel to Prof. Patrick V. Verkooijen was announced at COP26 in Glasgow, with the aim of driving youth engagement with the adaptation agenda. At the same climate summit, international leaders agreed to double adaptation financing to developing countries by 2025.

Successive advisory panels in 2022 and 2023 collaborated with colleagues at GCA to mobilize over 13,500 young people around the world through 12 regional Youth Adaptation Forums as part GCA’s flagship youth consultation process. The CEO’s Youth Advisory Panel 2024 mobilized 15,300 young people through six thematic Youth Adaptation Forums, as well as played a crucial advocacy role in the Youth Climate Adaptation Action Day. They organized Lighthouse Events and developed the petition which called upon global leaders at COP29 to double down on adaptation finance.

If you are a passionate young leader who is committed to climate adaptation, you can apply to be part of the Youth Advisory Panel 2025.