Human Ecology and the Youth - Lessons from COP27 and CHOGM 2022 with Youth Environmental Activist Abhiir Bhalla

 Monday 23 January 2023, 6:30 - 8:00 pm
The Smoking Room at the NLC

On Monday, 23rd January the NLC Commonwealth Forum in conjunction with CHEC, is hosting a reception from 6.30pm to 7.00pm, followed by a discussion (7.00pm - 8.00pm ) to welcome CHEC Youth Advisor Abhiir Bhalla, a prominent Youth environmentalist, to the UK for a series of Commonwealth Roundtable events. The drinks reception (at £15 per person, payable in advance to the NLC, registration may be made on the NLC website) will be followed by a brief talk, covering:

• COP 26 (Glasgow, 2021) and most recently COP 27 (Sharm El Sheikh) in November 2022, where he attended the Youth Meeting just prior to the opening of COP 27. 

• Commonwealth Youth and Peoples Forum in Kigali, Rwanda, in June, during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM)

• Thoughts on India’s succession (from Indonesia) to the G20 Presidency for 2023

Lord Graham Tope CBE will welcome Abhiir and guests.

The evening will be chaired by NLC Commonwealth Forum Vice Chair, CHEC Honorary Secretary, and Climate Reality Leader Emily Robinson.

An active youth environmentalist at a global level, Abhiir has been working in the field of environmental conservation for over 8 years. Identified by the BBC World News as amongst the foremost youth environmentalists in 2020, Abhiir and his work have been featured prominently in the national and international media.