The Go Green Campaign, started in 2018, is an initiative of International Cooperative Alliance Asia-Pacific Committee on Youth Cooperation (ICYC), to link youth and SDGs on a single platform and create an identity for cooperatives as a sustainable model for environment and society. This year, ICYC will organise Go Green Campaign 3.0 in the month of July to fit with the 2020 theme for International Day of Cooperatives (July 4, 2020), Cooperatives for Climate Change.  

The “World Goes Green with Africa, America and Asia-Pacific”, will be held in partnership with the Africa Youth Network, Americas Youth Network (CRJ) and ICA Sectoral organisation Cooperative Housing International (CHI). The Campaign is divided into three Regional Youth Weeks: the first from July 1 to 7, will be celebrated in the Asia-Pacific; the second from July 8 to 14, in Africa; and third from July 15 to 21, in the Americas. The campaign will display the role of youth and cooperatives can play through self-help and solidarity.

ICYC takes this opportunity to call for speakers for its upcoming webinar on the Go Green campaign. The webinar will focus on SDG13: Climate Action, Youth, and COVID19. Interested volunteers are requested to send in their names to ahsanalithakur@yahoo.com. More information about the Go Green Campaign and call for speakers can be viewed here.