11/10/2025
16:00 - 17:00
Youth Pavilion
Why attend
This session will seek insights from youth across landscapes and cultures related to their relationship with nature and how changing behaviours and shifting values towards human-nature connectedness can help change the status quo and therefore inspire transformative change in efforts to tackle biodiversity loss and climate change.
Session Description
Aligning with the motion submission of the same name (Motion 128), speakers from a broad spectrum (e.g. behaviour change science, Indigenous traditional knowledge and conservation) and from across the world will lead a discussion on the importance of human-nature connectedness in affecting transformative change for nature and for humanity. They will present their views and work on this topic and discuss the changing landscape on how people are connecting with nature (physical vs. digital) within an increasingly urban-based population. They will also explore and seek participant input and best practices on their relationship with nature and explore how to measure human-nature connectedness as part of the broad-based action required to bring about a transformation in our societies’ relationships with biodiversity.Organized by
South America Region
Partners
Commission on Education and Communication
World Commission on Protected Areas
Parks Canada Agency - Agence Parcs Canada ( Canada )