Sana’a -- Two young climate activists from Yemen will attend Global Power Shift in Istanbul, Turkey next week, a major summit dedicated to building a global youth movement to solve the climate crisis.

Out of the thousands of young people from all over the world who applied to attend the Global Power Shift Summit, 500 participants were selected from 133 different countries.

The Yemeni participants are:

● Moneer Al-Omari, the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Social Research and Development Center (SRDC), a quantitative, qualitative, market and development research institution.

● Mustafa Al-Sufi, - National Youth Development Specialist - at United Nations Volunteers (UNV) Yemen.

The five-day summit will be a showcase for the strategies and tactics behind many of the most successful social movements and campaigns of the last few years.

During the summit, youth activists will share organizing strategies, learn about innovative online tools, map out new climate campaigns, and hear from environmental leaders and activists from around the world.

After the summit in Istanbul, the participants will return to their home countries to help organize national Power Shift summits, mobilizations, and other climate campaigns.

“The Social Research and Development Center (SRDC) is set to start several climate change initiatives aiming to measure the perceptions and raise awareness of Yemeni people towards the issues and challenges posed by the climate change,” said Mr. Al-Omari.

"Climate change affects us all, but it is young people who will inherit the impact of climate change in the decades to come. And it is also young people who will rise to this challenge. To do this, it is critical that young people who have the energy and commitment to tackle climate change, have the skills and the support they need to be active change agents both at the grass-roots and the global level," said Mr. Al-Sufi.

Global Power Shift is being organized by the international climate campaign 350.org, with support from partner organizations, Avaaz, Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, and others. 350.org is named after 350 parts per million, what many scientists consider is the safe upper limit of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.