Students, Women & Young People

organize and participate in decision-making and act as agents of change in their calls for climate education and climate justice questioning the structural causes of the crisis.

Transformative education and meaningful and safe engagement opportunities for children, students and young people are crucial for finding long-term solutions that address the inequality and injustice of the climate crisis. All over the world, children, students, young people and women’s rights movements protest and march calling upon decision makers(governments, corporate actors, and national and international leaders) to recognise the need for urgent action on the climate emergency. The least responsible and hardest hit are not responsible for solving the climate emergency, but they can –and clearly want to –contribute to fairer, more sustainable societies and hold those in power to account. In many countries, the collective action of young people influences public opinion, changes election topics, and forces leaders to commit and act. However, there is still much more to be done. The actions around the world are very different in scale and in the nature of the collective movements and their demands. While Oxfam cannot endorse children and young people missing school, it does support them in their organizing actions at local, national, and global levels. It can leverage their actions with facts, data, and policy calls addressing the injustice of the climate emergency.