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We are a registered Canadian Charity (74599 9318 RR0001) undertaking academic research and taking action to engage youth as key stakeholders in lowering anthropogenic carbon emissions.
To date, our partners have included academic researchers at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and Mitacs
Our organization is poised to become the first known custodian of metrics about youth sentiments on planetary health. Our process for data collection is based on academically-vetted methodologies and undertaken in partnership with researchers
We have demonstrated our approach through the Voice of 1,000 projects, which was undertaken by our Society in 2022 in conjunction with Mitacs and academic researchers at the University of Guelph, Ontario.
Through this project, we have had the opportunity to reach and engage 1,000 youth (& households) on their sentiments and aspirations for planetary health.
The Voice of 1,000 projects was inspired by our decarbonisation project documented at www.carbonrewind.org, and allowed us to capture insights on research questions identified for the Voice of 1,000 projects, as follows:
Youth's concern for the environment
Youth's conviction about their role and ability to impact carbon emissions
Youth's proclivity to commit to or adopt habits that minimize one's carbon footprint
We are committed to telling the stories we have heard from across 1,000 households in Canada in a way that highlights the role and importance of youth in the conversation around climate change action within Canada and as presented under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Drawing attention to some of the insights gleaned from our survey will help policy-makers in the public sector, investors & administrators in the private sector, educators, researchers and the public at large better understand avenues to employ to effectively engage youth (and parents) on initiatives to achieve goals to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We are convinced that long-term
reduction in carbon emissions hinges on sensitizing our youth to their role as environmental
stewards.
Our research report will contribute to the knowledge and research capacity available on planetary health, and inspire further research to learn more about factors such as socio-economic backgrounds, which appear to influence access to and the quality of information about climate change action.
The impact of our survey will continue to grow as we build an open data set and track and trend metrics that gauge youth sentiment on planetary health