COY1
Montreal Canada
2005
COY2
Nairobi Kenya
2006
COY3
Bali Indonesia
2007
COY4
Poznan Poland
2008
COY5
Copenhagen Denmark
2009
COY6
Cancun Mexico
2010
COY7
Durban South Africa
2011
COY8
DOHA
QUATAR
2012
COY16
The 16th UN Climate Change Conference of Youth
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COY9
Warsaw
Poland
2013
COY10
LIMA
PERU
2014
COY11
PARIS
FRANCE
2015
COY12
MARRAKECH
MOROCCO
2016
COY13
BONN
GERMANY
2017
COY14
Katowice
Poland
2018
COY15
Madrid
Spain
2019
From the very beginning, the youth of the world has been actively engaged at the Conferences of the Parties (COPs) which are organised by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
In 2005, we formally gathered for the first time in Montreal ahead of COP11 to make our voices heard at the first Conference of Youth (COY). In 2009, the UNFCCC secretariat and the member States of the Convention officially recognised youth as an observer constituency of its own, and confirmed their status in 2011, to represent the formal voice of Youth in UNFCCC processes. This youth constituency is called YOUNGO.
Over the last few years, COY has grown massively, with huge international participation.
In 2010, less than 500 people got the chance to attend the event in Cancún; but only five years later, over 5,000 activists and change makers participated in COY11 in Paris!
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LCOYs
Since 2015, COYs have also been decentralised. Around the world, Local COYs are happening every year; they can be regional or national and are known as LCOYs.
The regionalisation gives advocates an opportunity to analyse climate related topics of national and/or regional importance in-depth before further discussing them in the main COY.