⚠️ Draft programme for preview — sessions, times and rooms are illustrative and will be confirmed with the official agenda.
Badge collection, welcome coffee and networking as delegations arrive from across the region.
Challenge briefing: 48 hours to prototype solutions for regional adaptation, energy and finance challenges.
Facilitated matching of participants into cross-border teams around the three conference themes.
Mentored working session with regional experts rotating between teams.
Traditional welcome dinner in the shadow of Nizwa Fort with local storytelling.
Final prototyping stretch, pitch coaching and jury preparation.
UNFCCC processes, YOUNGO coordination and the road to COP31 for first-time negotiators.
Top teams pitch prototypes to a jury of practitioners and investors.
Winning solutions matched with regional incubation and funding partners.
High-level opening with dignitaries, organising partners and youth representatives.
Regional realities of water, heat and food security — and the youth-led responses already working.
Green jobs, entrepreneurship and the skills MENA youth need for a low-carbon economy.
Unlocking finance for youth-led action and opening decision-making tables.
Facilitated breakout circles drafting inputs for the regional policy paper.
Delegates negotiate as country blocs in a live simulation of the UNFCCC process.
Consolidating four days of inputs into the official MENA youth statement for COP31.
Formal adoption and handover to UNFCCC and regional partners.
Certificates, thanks and the road ahead to COP31.
Every session feeds the regional policy paper and the MENA youth statement carried to the UNFCCC process.
