Several Japanese media featured a training session held as part of the Global Youth MIDORI platform (GYM), a new capacity development programme for youth launched by ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ-IAS and the AEON Environmental Foundation. The programme aims to empower young people to develop solutions for biodiversity loss and other global challenges.
The training session concluded with a speech contest. The top two students ¡ª Shiho Ito (Global Studies Program, Akita International University) and Taira Ishiguro (Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, the University of Tokyo) ¡ª will participate in the upcoming UN Biodiversity Conference in Cali, Colombia (CBD COP 16) as a part of the ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ delegation.
The news articles (in Japanese) can be accessed below.
