Help Delegate to Participate on the 22nd Youth Assembly / United Nations

The objective of this collective funding is to allow the participation of Brazilian delegate Natan Barbosa at the 22nd Session of the Youth Assembly (https://www.youthassembly.nyc/) to be held at the UN headquarters in New York (USA) from August 9 to 14, 2018. The forest engineering student will meet delegates from over a hundred countries to discuss and generate international reports to enhance the implementation of 17 Sustainable Development Objectives. The main theme to be spoken by the delegate will be climate change and global forests.

Context

Nowadays, Brazilian forests are all over the news whether for the great biodiversity and richness or the high rates of land use change that advance with use of deforestation and burning. The Carbon Zero Program (www.carbonozero.ufv.br) is a youth led initiative coordinated by Natan Barbosa and the Environmental Economics and Forest Management Study Group. Since its creation in 2010, it has already sensitized thousands of young people and adults to rethink their consumption habits by the inventory and neutralization of urban and rural emissions. Natan Barbosa will be the spokesperson for this program and put the most important environmental conflicts on discussion for international delegates.

About Natan Barbosa

Natan is a 24 years old student of forest engineering at the Federal University of Viçosa (Brazil). Since very young, he is very engaged on social and environmental causes due to the influence of the Boy Scout Movement. He has acted on campaigns of clothing, food and toys donations and others of great impact on society. He applied for Forest Engineering because on his believes on the potential of forests to promote social, economic and environmental benefits for the community.

During his exchange program in USA, he volunteered as an international mentor for the International Programs Office (University of Idaho), treasurer at the Brazilian Student Club (University of Idaho) and member of the Student Association for Fire Ecology Club (University of Idaho). He has worked in numerous social projects to assist Moscow residents and contribute for a better community. But Brazilan government removed many resources from education programs and most of the Brazilians had to return home.

Costs

To secure his participation at the 22nd The Youth Assembly, which will take place at the United Nations (New York), Natan will have to purchase the Core Package which includes accommodation, meals, local tranportation food and shuttle It will cost him $1.600 US dollars. (https://www.youthassembly.nyc/)