On October 18th, 2024, AYN hosted its first Regional Youth Meet-up in Reykjavík, Iceland!

The aim of the Regional Youth Meet-up was to bring together Youth from across the Arctic, but in particular local Youth from Iceland, to get together and discuss important topics for the whole region.

The event started with a number of welcome speeches and several short pitches from organizations, policy makers and projects, which each introduced a particular issue for Arctic Youth.

These topics revolved around:

• Safeguarding Arctic Nature (led by WWF Global Arctic Programme, Sweden)
• Climate Adaptation: Benefits and Challanges (led by University of Lapland)
• Climate Intervention and how they can be used (led by Operaatio Arktis)
• Climate Change and Urban Planning (led by Reykjavík City Council)
• Climate Change and Community Engagement (led by Hólar University and the Icelandic Museum of Natural History)

After these presentations, the participants engaged with each other in fruitful discussions on one of the topics. At the end of the event, participants were encouraged to share their (policy) recommendations to solving the issue with the rest of the attendees.