The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) with the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has designed and conceptualized a Youth Fellowship for Sustainable Palm Oil (YfS). The objective of this programme rolled out in February 2020 is to offer one of its kind opportunities to youth (young professionals between 18 yearsto 25 years to take charge by engaging and shaping the sustainability/SDG agenda based on their own ideas and actions.

The certificate fellowship pursues to engage youth specifically on SDG 12 (responsible production and consumption) and SDG 13 (climate action). At the end of the fellowship, each of the candidates are expected to submit an idea/plan that they want to implement in the next one year. The idea/plan may be a business model or an initiative at anindividual/ community or an organizational level. The plan should incorporate ways in which the candidate aims to prevent deforestation and combat climate change through the uptake of sustainable palm oil in India.

Number of applicants applied for the felowship. After a rigorous process involving written application and interview, four candidates were shortlisted. Currently, the selected candidates are being mentored by sustainability practitioners on the above ideas/actions relating them specifically to SDG12 and SDG13.