POP Mentors, Ana Hanhausen and Ash Pachauri were invited as youth panelists by Earth Odyssey to join their webinar series about youth and women for sustainable development.  The current webinar entitled “Empowering Youth to Secure a Sustainable World” was held on December 27, 2020.  Earth Odyssey’s vision and mission is to mobilize youth and women to participate actively and contribute to establishing road maps of action in order to secure the future of generations to come. Earth Odyssey is devoted to supporting the concerted and collaborative effort necessary to propel active participation of governments and policy makers,

Panelists in addition to  Ana Hanhausen and Ash Pachauri included Chibeze Ezebiel (with his four-year grassroots campaign, the Ghanaian Minister of Environment canceled the construction of a 700-megawatt (MW) coal power plant and adjoining shipping port to import coal. The coal power plant would have been Ghana’s first. Ezekiel’s activism stopped the coal industry from entering Ghana and steered the nation’s energy future away from coal), Kehkashan Basu (founder-President of Green Hope Foundation, United Nations Human Rights Champion, winner of the 2016 International Children’s Peace Prize and winner of the first-ever voices youth Gorbachev-Shultz Legacy Award for Nuclear Disarmament), Helena Lindemark, founder of the #2022Initiative Foundation, innovator, Eugen Oetringer, and Ukpeme Akpan Okon, Ambassador for Peace based in Nigeria, Joerg Altekruse, renowned film director and film author from Youth4Planet, and Heiner Benking, founder of heiner2020.earth 4futures.org.

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