Matilda Ramge is the new UN Youth Delegate for Sustainable Development

Since 2002, the German Federal Youth Council and the Federal Ministry for the Environment have been sending two youth delegates as part of the German government delegation to international UN processes on sustainable development. At the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development (HLPF) in New York, they represent the perspectives of young people from Germany on the 2030 Agenda and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals. They contribute these voices to political processes - for example by speaking at conferences, contributing to resolutions and engaging in dialogue with diplomats and experts.

The youth delegates for sustainable development are each selected for two years and rotate according to the zip fastener model, so that a new position is filled each year and there is a junior-senior structure in the delegate duo. This ensures continuity and, above all, expertise.

Matilda is involved with BUNDjugend. Among other things, she is active in the climate working group and in the DBJR's coordination centre for youth participation in climate issues. It is important to her to emphasise the opportunities and possibilities for effective implementation of the sustainability goals and to make environmental and sustainability policy socially compatible. To this end, it is important to her to consider and demand social issues, equality and fair participation.

For her, effective youth participation is a crucial prerequisite for the inclusive and intergenerational implementation of the 2030 Agenda. In the spirit of "Our Common Future", it wants to work with and for young people to bring fair and sustainable solutions to the sustainability goals into political spaces and represent them effectively there. With a view to 2030, it is important to Matilda to continue to maintain an encouraging narrative around the SDGs during her term of office and to continue to think about them "beyond 2030". 
If you are interested in an exchange, workshops or further cooperation, you can contact Matilda by email.

Matilda's assumption of the office of Youth Delegate marks the end of the regular term of Audrey MacLeans, who held the office in 2024/25. We would like to take this opportunity to thank Audrey MacLean for her extraordinary commitment.

You can find out more about the work of the two youth delegates on their website: https://jugenddelegierte.dbjr.de/