ABSTRACT In this article, we focus on the advocacy of youth from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in the U.N. COP process through interviews (n = 12) with youth from the MENA region who participated in or organized around the 2022 COP 27 climate negotiations in Egypt. The perspectives of youth climate advocates in the region are relatively absent in the existing scholarly literature and there is a significant need for additional research about youth climate advocacy beyond the activism of white, western and wealthy young people (see Neas, S., Ward, A., & Bowman, B. [2022]. Young people’s climate activism: A review of the literature. Frontiers in Political Science, 4. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2022.940876). Through thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews (n = 12) supplemented by context drawn from digital media about youth climate advocacy in the MENA region, our findings characterize the: (1) priorities and claims; (2) perceptions of influence and participation; and (3) motivations for and challenges to youth climate advocacy across the region. We argue for intersectional analysis of youth climate advocacy in the COP process and beyond and describe the importance of examining the uneven spatial politics of climate change and transnational youth advocacy.