R E P O R T - Green Foundation Ireland

In this talk, Katie Reid (participation lead for the Assembly) hosted a conversation with some of the children and young people involved about their experiences, calls to action and hopes for the future. [...] The Young People's Assembly met over two weekends in October 2022 and aimed to ensure Ireland's youngest citizens have their say around how Ireland responds to the challenge of biodiversity loss and to dovetail with the Citizen's Assembly on the topic. [...] It details their activities over the two weekends and captures their key recommendations, including a vision of the future they would like to see: "an Ireland where we are connected to and care for the rights of nature (and each other) so that biodiversity is restored and protected and we live and grow up in a healthy, clean and fair environments." After receiving the final report, the Minister of. [...] The Journey So Far: Meeting the Participants Katie Reid, who worked in Scotland with children in their Assembly, was delighted to help the Irish team develop the workshops on biodiversity loss, and was fantastic in this Green Foundation Ireland talk at exploring the findings of the research with the children. [...] As a gentle but provocative host of the conversation, Katie wondered as it's six months since they did the project, what are they feeling now? Oisín talked of being more aware of the issues of biodiversity and noted how everyone talks of climate change, but biodiversity loss is as big a problem, yet often not discussed on the same level.