On 10th march 2018 NYCA have Organized  hiking series with the slogan “I love my lungs” considering the Heath,Clean air and interaction,sharing within the youth.It was the way of sight seeing the beautiful nature .This time we are hiking to Nagi gumba,this walk was aim to  provide  peacefulness from the modernized and urbanized zone.About 35 energetic youth participated in this hiking .They appreciated the initiation and requested for next hiking sooner.

On 25th January 2018 Nepalese youth for Climate Action together with Clean Energy Nepal-CEN organized Green Discussion program on the topic “Solid Waste Management and Its Condition in Nepal.” in presence of Mr Bhusan Tuladhar-Regional Technical Advisor South Asia-UN-HABITAT as a Resource person among 45 enthusiastic youth from different institutional Background.

Climate Change is a global concern among today’s generation with its increasing extremities and unpredictable consequences. Countries like Nepal who are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change impact are facing several threats on livelihood and economy. Empowering and educating youths make them aware on its consequences towards resilience future with adequate knowledge on adaptation and mitigation to the climate change impacts was deemed necessary. In this regard, Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) together with Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) organized two days Regional Conference on Climate Change.  The main objective of the conference was to engage and empower youths and built strong networks to act against climate change. The conference was jointly supported by Southern Voices on Adaptation (SVA), Tulsipur Sub-Metropolitan City and Nepal Public Awakening Forum, Rukum from 16^th to 17^th January, 2018 in Tulsipur, Dang.

Around 60 youths from Mid-western region benefited from the conference. Mr. Ghanashyam Pandey, Mayor of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City, said that we have to change our behavioral practice first to reduce the effect of climate change.“Cycling, using electric vehicles and walking for shorter distances could be the best ways to minimize the air pollution and traffic as well”, he added.

Mrs. Maya Acharya, Deputy Mayor of Tulsipur Sub-metropolitan City shared her delight to be a part of the conference and requested youths to act responsibly to march towards the “Clean Tulsipur Green Tulsipur” initiated by the sub-metropolitan. ”Every sector needs to progress equally for a better future and for this youth can to play key role”, she stressed.

Mr. Jhakendra Kharel, Information Officer at the sub-metropolitan discussed about the dynamism of youth and their roles to combat climate change. “Inspiration, aspiration, perspiration, celebration and satisfaction are the key factors for any work to be completed successfully”, he said while motivating the youths.

Mr. Shree Man Neupane, Executive Director of Human Welfare and Environment Center  (HWEPC) was among the speakers had presented ideas on Climate Change Adaptation from the local perspective..

Mr. Rajan Thapa and Mr. Damodar Dhital from CEN facilitated the conference. Mr. Thapa presented about the basic skills and ingredients required for designing and developing an effective campaign. Facilitating the group work, he guided several campaigns with constructive feedbacks and means for successfully implementing the campaign. Besides, he also briefly outlined the concepts of Climate Change Policy, National Adaptation Program of Action (NAPA), Local Adaptation Plan of Action (LAPA) while discussing about initiatives from the government in response to climate change impacts.  Mr. Dhital during the technical session presented on “Understanding the Basics of Climate Change Science”. He discussed about the climate change science, its causes and effects and some of the responses to climate change. He further facilitated the group work on Campaign Designing.

On December 11, 2017 Nepalese Youth for climate Action-NYCA together with Clean Energy Nepal-CEN organized post cop in presence of the panelist Dr.Ram Prasad Lamsal (Joint secretary Ministry of population and Environment-MOPE), Manjeet Dhakal (Advisor to LDC chair at UNFCCC), Ugan Manandhar (Deputy director, WWF), Ganesh shah-Former ministry of Environment and Dr.Maheswar Rupakheti (Institute for advanced sustainability studies, Germany) and the youth participants from different institution. The main objective of the program was to address the outcome of the cop23 that was held in Bonn, Germany from Nov 6-17.

On 16^th November, 2017 “World Climate Stimulation: A Role play in Negotiation” was organized by Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) and supported by Plan International Nepal. Around 40 participants were present at the program from different educational background. They were given opportunity to build climate change awareness and enable participants to experience some of the dynamics that emerge in the UN climate negotiations. All the participants were divided into 6 groups and assigned to be a delegate representing various countries such as China, India, United States of America, Developing countries etc. Brief description of the program was given and upcoming COP 23 information was shared in presence of Executive secretary of UNFCCC Patricia Espinosa .The main target of the program was to let participants involve into the negotiation process and finalize an agenda at the end. The negotiation exercise was divided into 3 rounds to meet the 2 degree Celsius agenda.

With the aid of C-ROADS the data came from each of the regions were entered into the software and analyzed through the graph whether we were able to meet the agenda. With the strong stand onthe development by China and US we were not able to reach the agenda but we could reach up to 2.42degree at the end. To show the disastrous outcome at the end we covered the developing nations with piece of cloth to show that developing country will soon be drowning if same trend of GHGs emission exists. Sadly, the participants were so involved with the role play they couldn’t come up with the agenda and also there was limitation of time. Overall feedbacks from participants were good. They thoroughly enjoyed being part of role play negotiation process.

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) entered into force in 1994,aimed at reducing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. All the signatory member states to the convention attend the Conference of Parties (COP) every year.   This year, the 23 rd session of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP23) is being organized from 6-17 th , November, 2017 in Bonn,Germany and will be presided over by the Government of Fiji.During the COP, people especially youths around the globe try to pressurize the world leaders by demonstrating different activities, awareness programs and campaigns. Youths across the world observe the Global Day of Action on the first Saturday during the COP. On the occasion of Global Day of Action, 2017, Nepalese Youth for Climate Action (NYCA) together with Clean Energy Nepal (CEN) organized “COP23 Ground Action Event” supported by Plan International. This year, the Global Day of Action was observed on 11 th November, 2017. About 500 viewer viewed the event .Event highlighted climate change impacts in different sectors of the environment, the role of individual efforts to combat climate change, impact on children .NYCA successfully organized ground action events to aware and empower youths and pressurize stakeholders and policy makers to take actions. These activities was instrumental in bringing Nepalese youths together to discuss on climate change and sustainable development issues, sensitize them for climate action and collectively push local and central governments to mainstream climate change issuesin development process.

On Nov 2,2017 As the part of precop NYCA-Nepalese Youth for Climate Action organized the Discussion series with Mr.Rajan Thapa program manager from Clean Energy Nepal (One of the delegate from Nepal for COP 23) in the presence of youth from different institution .
The main objective of the program was to make the youth familiar with the COP(conference of parties) ,negotiations and focus agenda from Nepal for COP23.

Nationwide Cleanup campaign is a community-based, environmental initiative that initiative that inspires and empowers communities to clean up, fix up and conserve their Environment.Nepalese Youth for climate Action( NYCA )have been organizing cleanup campaign every year. This year to NYCA together with the cleanup Nepal conducted the nationwide cleanup day on the September 16 th 2017.NYCA central team personally conducted cleanup from satdobato to lagankhel where as our regional chapters of Pokhara and Chitwan had also done their cleanup campaign respectively. Altogether 107 participants were participated and they had collected total kg of waste from their respective sites. The main objectives of cleanup program was to aware the community people about waste segregation, cleanliness and waste management.

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