Go Beyond: Taking #ClimateAction from Home

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Go Beyond: Taking #ClimateAction from Home
November 5, 2020
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Connect4Climate

This is a dedicated article for suggestions on how to take your climate action further. This article is a part of the #Youth4ClimateLive Educational Toolkit and will be updated throughout the series as new episodes roll out.

The #Youth4ClimateLive Series brings together a diverse group of unstoppable youth at the forefront of creative climate action for virtual monthly discussions in the lead-up to next year’s Pre-COP and COP26 activities (for more on the Series or to find out what a Pre-COP is, please visit our Educational Toolkit Introduction Article). The complementary #Youth4ClimateLive Educational Toolkit aims to help students dig deeper into important climate topics covered in the Series and encourages them to learn more about Climate Ambition and taking #ClimateAction! 

How Do We #TakeAction?

We are at a pivotal moment in time where the need for ambitious climate action is just as urgent as it’s ever been and yet major climate events have been postponed while people stay safe at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Youth around the world are continuing to mobilize using innovative virtual ways of connecting and organizing.  By tuning in to the #Youth4ClimateLive Series every month, young people can stay up to date, broaden their horizons, and connect with the global Youth4Climate community to help drive momentum towards the landmark climate summits now scheduled for the end of 2021.

The #Youth4ClimateLive Educational Toolkit offers additional ideas on how stay engaged through watching inspiring videos and films, learning more about favorite climate solutions, keeping the mind active with games and puzzles, creating poetry and music, and diving into other #ClimateAction activities. We’re hoping that the #Youth4ClimateLive Series and Educational Toolkit will help activate and energize students and young people so that they’re excited to go beyond the parameters of these resources and keep the conversation going in their own communities as they #TakeAction from home.

The world needs to continue ratcheting up our collective climate ambition and now is the time to get involved. It’s important to take this time while “business as usual” has been put on hold to prepare for Pre-COP and COP26 so that young people can be a driving force for ambitious action and a successful outcome. Any young person looking to participate directly in the Youth4Climate: Driving Ambition event in Milan next year should submit to the #SumItUp competition and follow @Connect4Climate on social media to get the latest news on what’s being planned. Looking for additional ways to get involved? See what resonates with you below and find your place in the movement!

Banner image courtesy of Milada Vigerova, Pixabay.

Stay Up-to-Date With the Climate Calendar

Create Original Content

  • Climate Poetry

    • You can compose a Collective Poem with your friends and/or classmates - check out our example here!

  • Climate Videos
        Produce a Climate Action Video

    • Add your voice to the climate conversation by finishing the following sentences and then sharing online with the hashtag #Youth4ClimateLive (we’ve offered some pointers in italics!):  

      • Together we can ________________________ (What is your main goal by taking action?  What can we achieve when we all take climate action together?) 

      • I’m taking climate action by ______________________ (What are you doing at home or in your community? It can be small, it can be big, but the more specific the better!)  

      • I’m taking climate action because ___________________ (What drives you to act?  What motivates or inspires you?)

    • Document a classroom environmental project and share online with the hashtag #Youth4ClimateLive

      • Organize a clean-up of a beach or other impacted ecosystem 

      • Start a schoolwide or community program for recycling, composting, reuse/upcycling, gardening/agriculture, tree planting, or water saving

    • Record your own #SumItUp video by sharing your key takeaways of a #Youth4ClimateLive episode in 1 minute

  • Climate Graphic Design

  • Climate Music

  • Climate Discussion

  • Climate Advocacy

    • Get involved in the Trillion Tree Campaign, an app connects users to Tree Planting Organizations all over the world, so you can plant trees in your local community while having global impact.

    • Wish4Climate! Create an eco-inspired Yoko Ono ‘Wish Tree’ with your friends, family or classroom.

    • Volunteer from home!  Do you read and write in multiple languages? You can volunteer with Climate Cardinals as a translator for climate education resources to ensure all people around the world get access to culturally-responsive climate education. 

    • Support a Youth Movement: there are lots of youth organizations out there, check our network of Connect4Climate partners to get inspired and research youth movements active in your own country!

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Connect4Climate is a World Bank Group Multi-Donor Trust Fund powered by Italy’s Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security and Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development that drives climate action through advocacy, partnerships, and creative communications.

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