On International Youth Day, climate experts convened across digital space to articulate what many sense but few act upon: that Africa's response to an accelerating climate crisis will rise or fall on whether its young people are resourced with real power, not merely invited to observe. The webinar, hosted by Planet, People and Peace Foundation, reframed youth engagement not as generosity but as structural necessity — a recognition that those who will live longest with the consequences of today's decisions must be given authority over them. In a continent already absorbing some of the world's m