Local Youth Conference on Climate Change in Turkmenabad.
The Local Youth Conference on Climate Change, Turkmenistan 2023, continued in Lebap province.
Students at the local youth conference on climate change in Lebap Velayat.
Participants at the conference.
On 16 October, Martin Walley, Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy in Ashgabat, travelled to Turkmenabat to support the Lebap element of the Local Youth Conference on Climate Change (LCOY) Turkmenistan 2023. The conference is jointly organised by the British Embassy in Turkmenistan, the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Turkmenistan, the Government of Turkmenistan and the Embassy of the UAE in Turkmenistan. The event was held at the Turkmen State Pedagogical Institute and was aimed at educating and raising awareness of problems related to climate change and ways to tackle this global problem among youth from Lebap Velayat.
Martin Walley, British Embassy Deputy Head of Mission at the British Embassy; Magtymguly Akmuradov, Counsellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan; and Eldar Latypov, British Embassy project officer at the conference.
Mr Walley noted during his speech:
We are grateful for the continued engagement with our esteemed partners to support the youth of Turkmenistan on our key priority to maintaining global temperature rise to 1.5°C within reach. It is a busy and vitally important agenda which will continue for years to come. This year, as we approach COP28, we want to make sure that all the voices of Turkmen youth from all Velayats are heard and that is why we have personally come to Lebap.
We specifically decided to visit Lebap this time because we believe that every young person of Turkmenistan has the potential to make a difference to climate change – for the benefit of Turkmenistan, as well as for the benefit of the whole world. We are very grateful to the SDG Youth Ambassadors, UNICEF and UNDP experts for all their positive energy and leadership in supporting the youth, which was the most important element to make this, and other events in Mary and Dashoguz, a success.
Climate change lecture for the students at Zehin Yoly school.
During his visit to Turkmenabat Mr Walley also visited Zehin Yoly private education centre, the biggest in Lebap Velayat, where he delivered an interactive lecture on climate change and the importance of living greener and more sustainably to leave a better planet for our future generations.