Caribbean Climate Leaders Fellowship 2026 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 21, 2026

Applications are open for the Caribbean Climate Leaders Fellowship 2026. The Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre (CCCCC), with funding from the Caribbean Development Bank, invites purposes for the Caribbean Climate Leaders Fellowship — a totally funded skilled growth OPPORTUNITY inserting two rising Caribbean professionals inside the CCCCC delegation at COP31 in Antalya, Türkiye.

COP31 will convey governments, local weather specialists, growth companions, advocates and stakeholders from world wide collectively to advance world local weather motion. For the Caribbean, these discussions are particularly essential. Decisions surrounding adaptation, local weather finance, loss and injury and the Global Goal on Adaptation have direct implications for the way forward for Small Island Developing States.

Through the Caribbean Climate Leaders Fellowship, the CCCCC is investing within the subsequent technology of pros who will assist carry the Caribbean’s local weather agenda ahead. The Leaders Fellowship is designed to present two younger professionals significant publicity to the UNFCCC course of, CCCCC’s regional coordinating position and CARICOM’s local weather priorities, whereas permitting them to make an energetic contribution to the area’s COP31 programme.

Benefits

• They present financial system airfare out of your home nation to Antalya, Türkiye.
• Hotel lodging all through the convention interval.
• Daily allowance overlaying meals and incidental bills.
• Official observer accreditation via the CCCCC delegation.
• Guidance from skilled members of the CCCCC delegation earlier than, throughout and after COP31.
• Pre-COP preparation, position definition and submit-convention data-sharing actions.

Eligibility

• Open to Caribbean nationals between the ages of 18 and 30 who’re early-profession, mid-profession or rising professionals with a robust curiosity in local weather change and sustainable growth.
• Applicants also needs to be at present enrolled in tertiary training, employed, or actively concerned in a number of of the next areas:
  • Youth organisation
  • Non-governmental organisation
  • Community-based organisation
  • Private-sector organisation
  • Public-sector establishment; or
  • Other organisation working in local weather, growth or public engagement.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications will likely be evaluated totally on the power, readability and credibility of the three required statements.

Particular consideration will likely be given to:

• The applicant’s dedication to the Caribbean’s local weather agenda
• The potential skilled worth of the fellowship
• The high quality of the proposed institutional data-switch plan
• The power of the applicant’s local weather-literacy contribution
• The applicant’s skill to speak local weather info successfully; and
• The potential for the fellowship to create impression past COP31

Shortlisted candidates will likely be invited to take part in an interview with a CCCCC choice panel.

Application

• Your CV ought to clearly define your training, skilled expertise, volunteer involvement, local weather-associated work and related expertise.
• You should have a written application of 1,200–1,500 phrases. Your written application should handle the next three areas:
  • Professional growth: Explain how the fellowship will contribute to your skilled growth. Identify the talents, data, expertise and profession trajectory it should assist, and clarify why that is the suitable second so that you can take part.
  • Institutional impression: Explain how your participation will profit your establishment or organisation. Include a practical plan for sharing the data, insights {and professional} networks gained via the fellowship together with your colleagues or neighborhood.
  • Caribbean local weather literacy: Describe how your COP31 participation will translate local weather discussions into accessible info that strengthens local weather literacy and public engagement throughout the Caribbean. A brief supporting assertion out of your establishment or organisation is inspired.

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For extra info, go to Caribbean Climate Leaders Fellowship.