What do young people feel about Climate Change?

 

This edition brings you voices of young people from across the world as they engage with us in a month long conversation over Climate Change and their Emotions.

Free Certification Course - Climate Change: Understand. Reflect. Empathize. Act.

Is there really a co-relation between Climate Change and Emotions? Yes, and that's what this course helps our future changemakers with! This free digital-interactive certification course is for both middle school children (grades 6-8) as well as in-service middle school teachers. The course not only includes information on key climate change-related concepts, the science of Climate Change, causes, impact, adaptation and mitigation, but also focuses on building skills such as self-awareness, emotional regulation, critical inquiry, perspective-taking and compassion. To sign up, register here.

Young People on Climate Change & Emotions

The youth can slow down Climate Change, but let's talk about their feelings first! Through this video series (in collaboration with UNEP, UNICEF South Asia, UNICEF India, United Nations in India and North American Association for Environmental Education) we bring to you young voices from across the world who through their journey highlight the gap that exists in understanding the co-relation between Climate Change and emotions and why it should be the need of the hour for teachers, students and schools to be active stakeholders in Climate Education. Watch here.

Become Better Stewards of the Environment: Podcast on 'Nature & Emotion'

Catch Dr Anantha Duraiappah, our Director, in conversation with Peter Singer, a professor of bioethics and best known for his seminal work 'Animal Liberation' on ‘Nature & Emotion’ as they layout the need to build an emotional relationship with the environment based on empathy and compassion, the onus to take complete responsibility for saving our planet and the much larger context of taking action right at this moment. Listen here.

#MGIEPChat: What do you feel when you hear 'Climate Change'?

What do young people feel about 'Climate Change'? Are they hopeful, anxious, worried or scared? How is it that they wish to contribute and what is it that they want you to do? This and so much more was discussed in our last Twitter Chat aka #MGIEPChat with young changemakers Quek Yew Aun (Co-founder Reef Stakes & Marine Biologist) & Archana Soreng (Member of UN Secretary General's Youth Advisory Group on Climate Change). Read their chat thread here.