This report – and accompanying webinar recording – explore how young people across Europe understand and respond to climate justice messaging, alongside key insights and recommendations for how advocates can more effectively and powerfully communicate climate justice.
The concept of climate justice brings a lens of social equity and historical responsibility to climate change, and there is an increasingly powerful movement calling for reparations for loss and damages resulting from climate change.
But what do young people across Europe think about climate justice, and what do they understand about reparations for loss and damage, and about systemic change and power? What do they feel about and how do they respond to messaging which focuses on these issues?
This report is the culmination of a two-year research project drawing on a survey of over 6,000 young adults and 20 in-depth workshops across a number of European countries. The report findings are summarised in an accompanying Executive summary. To put this research into practice, see the Messaging Guide.
An insight blog by our Advocacy Communications programme lead, Robin Webster, also highlights key report findings and takeaways.
This report has also been translated into Italian, Spanish and Czech. The executive summary has been translated into German and French.
These outputs are part of SPARK, a four-year European Union funded project to build the awareness, capacity and active engagement of European Union citizens, particularly young adults, with efforts to bring about climate justice. SPARK is delivered by a consortium of 20 civil society organisations across 13 European countries. See: https://sparkachange.eu/
These have been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of these outputs are the sole responsibility of Climate Outreach and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.
