Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship 2026 – YOA

Deadline: August 1, 2025

Applications for the Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship 2026 at the moment are open. The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship is a 5-month program that brings collectively a various group of gifted younger clear vitality and local weather leaders from rising nations.

The Yale Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship presents an OPPORTUNITY for 16 younger local weather and clear vitality practitioners from throughout the Global South to broaden their technical abilities, deepen their skilled networks, and alternate views with prime international clear vitality and local weather change leaders. Climate Fellows are drawn from all kinds of professions, starting from public servants to entrepreneurs, vitality firm professionals, financiers, journalists, educators, researchers, civil society representatives, authorized advisers, and legislators.

This 5-month, three-part initiative is predicated out of Yale’s International Leadership Center with partnerships all through the college. Fellows interact with distinguished Yale college and a community of prime practitioners to discover key points within the international clear vitality and local weather change agenda.

Program Details

Yale Orientation Week | February 16-20, 2026

• This 5-month fellowship begins with a one-week, in-particular person orientation program at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, from February 16-20, 2026.
• Fellows will interact in a collection of interactive periods with distinguished Yale college and practitioners to set the phrases of the worldwide local weather change debate.
• Fellows will discover the wide selection of local weather change initiatives housed at Yale and delve into slicing-edge scholarship on a broad vary of fresh vitality and local weather points.
• Among the facilities and establishments which can be featured within the orientation program are the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture, the Yale Open Lab, the Yale Center for Business and the Environment, the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and the Yale Office of Sustainability, which manages the University’s web zero aim.

Remote Learning Journeys | March-June 2026

• From March by means of June 2026, Climate Fellows will arrange and perform a collection of interactive distant periods with prime worldwide consultants on the complete vary of coverage points related to local weather change and the clear vitality transition. Sessions are spirited journeys permitting for improvement of communities of follow in specialties and in depth mentoring alternatives.

Paris Closing Week | June 15-19, 2026

• The fellowship concludes with an in-particular person week in Paris, from June 15–19, 2026.
• Fellows will meet with prime worldwide local weather change analysts; share views gleaned all through this system; and consolidate skilled and private contacts developed by means of peer studying and exchanges of views.
• Fellows can have networking alternatives with employees members from the International Energy Agency and the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), French central authorities and municipal officers, and representatives of civil society organizations, assume tanks, academia, and the non-public sector.
• Fellows may even current coverage suggestions on particular clear vitality and local weather-associated challenges to a worldwide advisory board, publish these findings, and preserve contacts by means of an alumni community.

Eligibility

• Applicants needs to be between 5 and 10 years into their skilled careers, with demonstrated accomplishments at a regional, nationwide, or worldwide stage. While there isn’t a minimal or most age requirement, they’re searching for younger leaders who’re nonetheless on the rise of their careers.
• Applicants should be representatives of the Global South. They sit up for welcoming a various illustration from creating Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America/Caribbean.
• Applicants should be fluent in English. An glorious command of the English language is important to efficiently collaborating in this system.
• Climate Fellows should be out there to totally take part in all elements of this system, together with in-particular person for 2 weeks of this system: the Yale Orientation week (February 16-20, 2026), and the Paris closing week (June 15-19, 2026).  Fellows should even be out there to take part within the 5 distant studying journeys and to work on a collaborative group challenge between March and June 2026.

Selection Criteria

• An established document of accomplishment in a career linked to scrub vitality and local weather change.  They search to determine a various group of Fellows from throughout a number of stakeholder teams, starting from authorities officers, to entrepreneurs, vitality firm/utility professionals, bankers/financiers, journalists, educators/researchers, civil society representatives, authorized advisors and legislators. 
• A dedication to creating a optimistic influence on the native, nationwide, or worldwide stage.
• Demonstrated promise of a future profession in management at each the nationwide and probably international stage. 
• An eagerness to develop and deepen skilled networks and to profit from publicity to prime international leaders within the clear vitality and local weather change house. 

Application

The application deadline for the 2026 Emerging Climate Leaders Fellowship is August 1, 2025.

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