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As a children’s rights issue, the Climate Action Campus aims to support children and young people in their response to the climate crisis.
Climate change places an incredible responsibility on all of us; we are the ones who can ensure the planet remains livable for people and all other living things.
For children and young people in particular there is a clear sense of urgency. They face unprecedented changes in the climate that will affect every aspect of their lives. This reality can induce a sense of hopelessness and despair, a sense that there is no future- a sense of climate anxiety or angst.
It is essential there are opportunities for children and young people to not only understand climate change, but to be part of the collective response to its impacts through participation in climate change planning, decision making and action.
There is a need for children and young people along with their whānau, kaiako and wider community to be aware of possibilities and actions.
This is where the Climate Action Campus comes in.
How the Campus supports children and young people
Children and young people and their communities are at the centre of everything the campus does and aims to achieve. The campus will provide a place to learn about climate change; to engage with others from diverse backgrounds, expertise and ages; and to develop and initiate ideas and actions.
We will do this by
● Working with schools and their communities, and interested children and young people groups
● Connecting with the national and local school curriculum
● Partnering with relevant providers and experts
● Providing place based opportunities to learn and act
● Participation in global, national and local decision making, planning and action
● Supporting them to take their experiences back to their school, where they can extend their ideas, and encourage climate change understanding and resilience in their wider community
● Offer packages whereabout CAC staff go out to your individual school and engage students before they attend the campus for a topic based unit of mahi and exploration, followed up by a kōrerorero back at their own kura to reflect on their workings
● Being a hub for student networking, giving them opportunities to work together across the region on Climate Action goals
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