Young People Are Changing Their Socio-Ecological Reality to Face Climate Change: Contrasting Transformative Youth Commitment with Division and Inertia of Governments

This paper contributes to a critical re-reading of the notion of climate services. It does so by problematizing the discontinuity between young people’s commitment to climate change, and the lack of a common vision regarding climate policy among governments. In this essay, youth commitment is charac...

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Climate policy
Climatic changes
Community involvement
Community participation
Crowdsourcing
Developing countries
Education
Environment and Society
Environmental aspects
Environmental policy
Environmental Sciences
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LDCs
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Schools
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Stereotypes
Students
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