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We want to leverage the power of World Obesity Day to start cross-cutting conversations. Looking at health, youth, and the world around us to see how we can address obesity together. As such, for World Obesity Day 2024, the Global Obesity Coalition – consisting of UNICEF, WHO, and the World Obesity Federation – is hosting a global youth-led webinar to unlock conversations around how this topic affects the lives of young people around the world and the concrete change young people are demanding. The online global event will service as a moment for those decision makers working in UN agencies, academia, civil society, and government to listen up. Objectives To receive a stock-take of the global obesity crisis, how it’s affecting young people, and how young people can get involved with the WHO Acceleration Plan to Stop Obesity. To hear and understand the lived realities of young people in a diverse set of countries. To investigate what it will take to spark a global youth movement to address these realities. To establish what young people are asking for, and how to deliver. Join us on 4 March at 2pm CET (1pm GMT) for this exciting virtual event.