Effects of Youth Unemployment to Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia

The existing institutions and legal entities are mainly concerned with the formal and wage employment sector. Employment in the informal sectors despite being huge untapped potential opportunities for youth employability receives minimal attention and a significant proportion of rural youth remain unemployed. This can pose a serious environmental threat to the scarce natural resources, which affect success in terms of sustainable rural development. Quite apart from the negative impact of youth unemployment on limited natural resources, youth unemployment also causes a loss of valuable productive human capital to protect and preserve rural agroecology to minimize or reduce the multifaceted effect of climate change. So, this article aims to investigate the effect of youth unemployment on climate change mitigation and adaptation in rural Ethiopia. Through the systematic review method, this article will analyze and discuss the issues of youth unemployment by reviewing findings, research, policies, and strategies for climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. The finding reveal that as climate action strategies enabling rural youth to engage in diverse range of green job typologies can help to further enhance the potentials of different sectors to contributes for the attainment country’s green economy goal as well as global mitigation and adaptation measures. Therefore, creating an enabling environment for rural youths' employability can immensely reduce the negative impact it has on rural scarce natural resources through the so-called green job for youths.