Youth experiences, actions and projects for improving the status of the environment will be presented at the First Global Summit on Youth Initiatives for Sustainable Development, to be held Aug. 26-30 in the Colombian Caribbean city of Cartagena. The event is being organized by the non-governmental Tayrona Group Corporation, with backing from the Colombian Ministry of Environment, Housing and Territorial Development.

A the meeting, delegates from around the world will look at youth challenges in the context of countries' compliance with the agreements made at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002.