Guest blog: TO A DIFFERENT KIND OF HLPF – from a Youthful Soul
Youth with UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the 2019 Climate Change Summit, Luis Alfonso de Alba Maria Auma is from Uganda and runs BLI Global that focuses on fundraising into development projects. She is an active YOUNGO BLT member and IUCN CEC member. You can meet her at the upcoming SG summit with a salted caramel mocha in tow. The High Level Political Forum known publicly as HLPF is one of those UN sessions that you have to attend to appreciate. With the hundreds of side events spewing out your ears, you cannot fail to find one way or other to have your days and evenings fully occupied. I suppose like every other event, it always pays to be prepared. So knowing beforehand (and here I mean, before you travel to NYC), which events and sessions will be most beneficial to you will help make your time at the UN more worthwhile, and avoid that sense of dissatisfaction with the way things are generally done. A friend once told me that the UN system is designed t...