THE YOUTH HARBOUR

ABOUT US

ABOUT US


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The Youth Harbour is a place of support, convening, and collaboration. We are committed to building climate-resilient communities by providing flexible, trust-based support to the youth-led climate movement in the form of financial, technical, and networking assistance.

Financial Support

Skills Support

Networking Support

The Youth Harbour Principles

YOUTH-LED, YOUTH-SERVING - ALWAYS

We believe that youth are the best agents of change and that’s why we are investing in them. Youth are powerful, passionate, and competent and the adult-centric world continuously underestimates and ignores the demands of youth. We are passionate about ensuring that youth are empowered and supported to take action and carry these experiences with them into their personal and professional lives.

EQUITY AND ACCESSIBILITY

We seek to support innovative work that takes bold climate action and supports communities most deeply affected by the climate crisis. To do so, we are committed to making our processes as equitable and accessible as possible through clarity and transparency by demystifying climate jargon and language, providing consistent and clear communication within capacity, and ensuring we accommodate folks that may not be able-bodied, speak other languages than English, and experience barriers to climate work. We will review our strategies regularly to ensure that it continues to meet the needs of the community we serve.

RELATIONSHIPS OF TRUST AND MUTUAL RESPECT

We seek to create, nurture, and maintain long-term supportive relationships and we are committed to collaborating with existing community partners and helping them amplify their impact.

WE’RE IN A CLIMATE CRISIS, AND WE ACT LIKE IT

We are at a nexus point where the actions that we take now greatly impact if we’re able to make it under the 1.5 degree mark. Climate change may not be the most important issue in every context, but it certainly is the most urgent, as failure to address the climate crisis heavily impacts our ability to address other inequalities and injustices.

RESPONSIBILITY AND RECIPROCITY

We encourage work that brings underrepresented communities, particularly Indigenous communities, to the forefront of the climate movement and defends communities whose health and livelihoods are threatened by environmental exploitation. We are committed to align ourselves with the Calls to Action outlined by the Truth & Reconciliation Commission.

Our Grounding Truths

1

Climate change will have the greatest impact on the future of young people, and with the most at stake and least ties to the status quo, youth have the most agency and motivation to create solutions that match the speed and scale of the climate crisis.

2

Youth organizing is impactful and innovative, especially in fostering the political will, culture shift, and societal change needed to enable the deployment of meaningful climate solutions.

3

The nature of youth organizing is responsive, trust-based, and emergent and therefore the supports that enable youth action should complement the ways in which youth organize.

4

Youth voices are essential to include and have represented in climate decision-making spaces, and thus youth must be meaningfully consulted as equal partners.