Climate Justice Project: 2025

Future Generations – Climate Justice Project seeks to explore and highlight the systemic and human rights issues related to the climate crisis.

With this partnership, we will bring the unique voices of young people who are missing from the climate discourse. Young people from marginalised, rural, and disadvantaged backgrounds are often left out of the conversation and their reality is oftentimes not represented in national and global policies as a result. 

Our project will specifically address this by:
  • Creating the space for young people to explore the topic of Climate Justice
  • Recognising the different layers of discriminations that exist in the climate crisis debate
  • Supporting young people to develop the skills they need to be advocates of climate justice
  • Empowering young people to take on a local/regional response to climate justice
  • To facilitate a global response to climate justice by including youth voices from the global south

Plankton, Pollen & Pajamas – Climate Chats

Young people from YMCA Ireland and Sphere17 chat about their project experiences with the Future Generations Climate Justice Project.

YMCA Ireland completed a seaweed tasting and cooking experience with “The Seaweed Man”, William McElhinney in Co. Donegal. They learned about Climate Justice, the role of phytoplankton in giving us our oxygen, and some inner life-lessons, too!

Sphere17 speak about their upcoming project on the importance of bees, biodiversity, and wearing pajamas outside! (The pajamas piece was a heated conversation the young people had on their way to the Podcast Studio that they wanted to continue when the mics were recording)!

CREDITS: Recorded and edited at The Podcast Studios, Dublin. Thumbnail, intro and outro animations created by Dog Day Media.

Delivered by

Youth Climate Justice – Future Generations Consortium

The 2023 & 2024 iterations of the Future Generations: Climate Justice Project was a consortium project between the National Youth Council of Ireland (lead agency), Sphere17 Regional Youth Facility, YMCA Ireland, Gaisce – The President’s Award, and 1Planet4All (Concern Worldwide) It was funded by the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Irish Aid, and Concern Worldwide’s 1Planet4All Project (EU).