Nico's Natural World
UN Child Ambassador for the SDGs
recent posts
- 1,000km Challenge for our Global Youth Council
- Futures 2025: Youth Stories on Climate and Sustainability
- VoFG Hosts Roundtable on International Day of Education
- Young Voices Rising for Biodiversity and Climate Action: CBD COP16
- New article on protecting our fenlands and showcasing new artwork—take a look!
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Category: SDG 14
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The much-anticipated anthology Futures 2025: A Compilation of Short Stories from Young Authors from Around the World is now available, offering a unique and powerful collection of narratives that span continents and cultures. Edited by young sustainability leader, climate activist and scholar Nico Cordonier Gehring, Futures 2025 brings together twenty-eight award-winning short stories written by talented young authors from…
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I was honoured to speak at the Leadership Roundtable: Youth Voices in Biodiversity Governance as part of the Biodiversity Law and Governance Day during COP 16. Hosted by the Voices of the Future Generations Children’s Initiative (VoFG CI), the Global Youth Council on Science, Law & Sustainability (GYC), and the Youth Negotiators Academy (YNA). I…
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Artwork by: Nico Cordonier-Gehring Check out my new article Protecting our Fenlands: A Short History of East Anglia Biodiversity Ravages, Resistance and Rewilding published by the Global Youth Council on Science, Law & Sustainability (GYC). Here’s a sneak peek! Introduction The cultural, economic, and political history of the Fenlands, including my Cambridgeshire home in East Anglia,…
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Submitted by Nico Roman (13, Canada, UK, Switzerland & Germany), Child Ambassador of the Voices of Future Generations (VoFG) Children’s Initiative & Co-Chair, Cambridge Schools Eco-Council, as one of the VoFG Child Authors, Child Ambassadors & Friends Thank you very much for the opportunity to comment on the draft of General Comment 26, which will guide governments by explaining how…
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Are you interested in learning about the links between education, Indigenous rights and sustainability? Are you inspired by the leadership of children and youth to advance the global Sustainable Development Goals? Would you like to help implement the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, by encouraging Indigenous children’s voices? TO REGISTER CLICK HERE…
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On Sunday, June 12, 2022, I joined the Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative to host a virtual storytime as part of the Festival of Nature. The Festival of Nature is the UK’s largest free celebration of the natural world. (We) Children from around the globe took the audience on a magical journey by sharing our…
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I’m happy to announce that I’m a junior editor of an international online journal for and by youth. Harmony was launched in the UN’s COP26 climate change events in Glasgow on November 6, 2021. This online journal was built on special links that the youth created during the global pandemic lockdowns. They hosted a series…
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We rallied outside Great St Mary’s at 5:30 pm on Friday, Sep 24. Then on Sep 25, 2021, we were l at the Cambridge Climate Fair on Parker’s Piece. For the last 18 months, the Covid-19 pandemic has overtaken all other issues of discussion. We made a stand with thousands of other youths across the…
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KSC Eco-Mural & Vision for Green Recovery BUILD BACK BETTER – THE MURAL The IDEA THE ARWORK PROCESS
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I’ll be chairing Free Online Eco-Seminar Mini-Series for Students – Register Now! Together with the Voices of Future Generations Children’s Initiative, the Cambridge Schools Eco-Council has been organising a mini-series of free 60 minute Online Eco-Seminars to raise awareness of key sustainability challenges and solutions, while schools have been forced online in many countries. Children,…
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