Overview

• About 45 participants aged 13 to 25 from across Maharashtra met in Andheri for a day-long consultation hosted at the All India Institute of Local Self-Government.
• Organisers Indian Youth Climate Network, UNICEF India and Sattvic Soul Foundation led participatory workshops that generated locally grounded policy recommendations.
• Sessions focused on urban flooding, heat waves, water stress, biodiversity loss, sustainable mobility, waste management and circular economy in line with the SAPCC.
• Mumbai’s inputs will be consolidated with outputs from Hyderabad, Jaipur, Patna, Guwahati and other cities into the Indian National Youth Statement feeding into YOUNGO’s Global Youth Statement at COP30.
• UNICEF’s Yusuf Kabir called for integrating the Children’s Climate Risk Index into Maharashtra’s social-sector planning to support evidence-based, child-sensitive climate policies.