Climate Action Institute: Six Lessons From The First Ever Youth Climate Action Event


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"Small actions can snowball into big impact," a group of young people in Canada said at a conference last month, and they're right.

The Royal Bank of Canada's Climate Action Institute, which organized the event in May with the help of the World Wildlife Fund, says that 70 young people between the ages of 15 and 22 came away with " actionable ideas" for the agriculture, energy, and housing sectors, but that what they learned "went much deeper than ideas," according to a post on the conference's website.

Among the ideas: using artificial intelligence to reduce waste in agriculture, using lab-grown meat to reduce the environmental footprint of traditional livestock farming, and using AI to help consumers make better choices.

"We know from RBC-Ipsos research that three-quarters of us felt that given the state of the economy, now is 'not the right time' to spend money combatting climate change," the bank's CEO says.

"We need to go deeper to facilitate change by implementing more systems that help consumers overcome perceived barriers to sustainable practices like lack of affordability, reliability, and access by: 1) instilling the benefits, impacts, and outcomes of these choices early on, and 2) encouraging consumers to make better choices that don'

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