Minister O’Brien welcomes funding for Youth Climate Justice Projects in 2024

• Funding of €457,861 for 10 new collaborative youth projects has been allocated by Minister O’Brien’s Department

• The Youth Climate Justice Fund supports youth-led initiatives related to climate justice at community, regional and national level.

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, today announced that a total of €457,861 has been granted to voluntary youth organisations in 2024 to support youth-led projects in the area of climate justice.

The purpose of the Youth Climate Justice Fund is to promote the engagement of young people in activities, initiatives and programmes that develop and support their knowledge, agency and empowerment in relation to climate justice. Today’s announcement brings the total made available under the scheme since 2020 to nearly €2.5millon.

Welcoming the announcement, Joe O’Brien said:

“I am delighted that funding from my Department has been approved for a wide range youth-led projects that support and promote Climate Justice. I have had the privilege of seeing many of these groups in action and the work that they carry out on the ground is invaluable.”