The Climate Youth Negotiators Programme is run by the Youth Negotiators Academy to prepare young negotiators for meaningful participation in UN climate negotiations. It combines self-paced study, live virtual sessions and an in-person simulation held before the annual climate COP.
Participants enter through nomination by their country focal point and must have a meaningful role in their Party’s delegation. The public programme pages do not offer a direct individual application route.
Benefits & funding
- Self-paced learning modules delivered through the UN CC:Learn platform.
- Live virtual sessions with experts, practitioners and other participants.
- A multi-day, in-person negotiation simulation in the COP host country.
- The public pages do not state a participation fee or promise universal travel funding; this record classifies the training itself as free, while travel support should not be assumed.
Eligibility
- Applicants must be 18–35 years old.
- Applicants must be nominated by their Country Focal Point.
- Nominees must be guaranteed a meaningful role in their Party’s delegation.
- No degree, work-experience, residency or gender requirement is published.
- No separate nationality list is stated as an eligibility rule; access depends on nomination through a participating country’s focal point.
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Age requirement
18–35 yrs
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Application process
- 1The prospective participant should contact the relevant Country Focal Point about nomination for the next CYNP cohort.
- 2The focal point nominates a young leader who will have a meaningful delegation role.
- 3The nominee follows the programme instructions supplied through that nomination route; the public site does not provide an individual application form or deadline.
Program timeline
Date not published
Country focal-point nominations for the next annual cohort.
Alternate weeks during the cohort
Live sessions, each offered twice for different time zones.
Before COP
Multi-day in-person negotiation simulation in the COP host country.
Next-cycle dates not published
The official site does not state the next opening, deadline, start or end date.