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YOUTH CLIMATE CORPS BC FOCUS AREAS

Your community has a robust climate focus and has identified climate mitigation and adaptation projects or has a climate action plan that needs to be prioritized.

 

We are here and ultra-motivated to support you in realizing your goals by co-creating the Youth Climate Corps of your community. Climate change is the greatest challenge for youth. We will support you in creating a program that empowers young people to inspire and implement solutions to the climate crisis through employment, training, and leadership development.

 

Below are Youth Climate Corps BC focus areas in climate action with which we can create real impacts together in your community.

Local Food Security

Local Food Security

We reinforce your local food security by helping producers and distributors in your community.

Energy Efficiency

Energy Efficiency

Through simple retrofitting youth enhance homes, buildings and manufacturing facilities so they use less energy to function.

Wildfire Risk Reduction

Wildfire Risk Reduction

Your community can become better fire-adapted. By training a youth workforce that knows how to mitigate wildfire risk reduction.

Youth Leadership Development

Youth Leadership Development

Leadership development helps expand the capacity of youth to perform in leadership roles within a disruptive world. By building resilience we empower youth within your community.

Community Engagement

Community Engagement

Completely integrated into your community we build the network and create the links between the different specialists. We contribute meaningfully to your community’s activities and develop functional capabilities that enable youth to participate fully.

Ecosystem Restoration

Ecosystem Restoration

We help reverse the degradation of the ecosystems in your environment, such as landscapes, lakes and oceans to regain their ecological functionality.

Education

Education

Part of the curriculum is to help youth understand and address the impacts of the climate crisis, empowering them with the knowledge, skills, values and attitudes needed to act as agents of change.

In Youth Climate Corps, crew members are between 17-29 years old; they earn wages, gain work experience, build networks, and develop themselves personally and professionally. Meanwhile, they complete projects that both benefit their own communities and support global efforts to act on the climate crisis.

If you or your organization wants to learn more about how to team up with us and move forward on projects in your community, or if you are interested in funding one of our projects related to our different focus areas, we are here to support you. 

We are committed to maintaining and growing respectful relationships in every region where we work.

 

YCCBC recognizes that colonization has deeply disrupted Indigenous Peoples’ relationships with their lands, communities, and cultural practices. We understand that the climate crisis is rooted in ongoing systems of colonialism and resource extraction—systems that became possible through the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples from their homelands.

We believe that Indigenous sovereignty is essential to building just futures and liveable worlds. YCCBC is committed to listening, learning, and walking in solidarity with Indigenous communities and to supporting Indigenous-led climate action across the province.

ABOUT US 

Youth Climate Corps BC develops the climate leaders of tomorrow by training a workforce of young people who know how to work together, communicate powerfully, and get things done on projects that contribute to climate resilience in communities across British Columbia.

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YCCBC headquarters is grateful to be located on the traditional and unceded lands of the Sinixt, the Syilx, and the Ktunaxa. 

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