This brief, co-authored by a young analyst and a colleague from UN Habitat, addresses the nexus of the YPS, climate change, and rapid urbanization. The paper pays special attention to the gendered impacts of climate change on urbanization and on young women in urban centers in particular and draws attention to both the importance and the prevailing deficits of young people’s inclusion in urban planning and governance, including the implications for youth resilience in relation to climate related conflict and potential violence. The brief concludes by stressing the need to involve youth as “inheritors of the future” in answering these challenges and includes recommendations for Member States, multilateral institutions and other political bodies.