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Climate anxiety in children and young people - a global survey

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Children and young people's beliefs about government responses to climate change

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The climate crisis is scary, but none of us are in this story alone. Stories bring us together, and each of us has a role to play in shaping the chapters to come.

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Eco-Anxious Stories - Transforming our eco-anxieties into meaningful action grounded in courage and compassion.

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Why Storytelling?

Humans use stories to make sense of the world around us and our place within it. At EAS, we use storytelling to explore the meaning of being alive at a point of great change, including our experiences with eco-anxiety and other climate emotions. Our emotions are tied to our values and identities, and storytelling helps work through the messiness and complexity. Stories help us focus on what matters, what's at stake, what we want, and what it will take.

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Humans use stories to make sense of the world around us and our place within it. At EAS, we use storytelling to explore the meaning of being alive at a point of great change, including our experiences with eco-anxiety and other climate emotions.

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Pedagogy of Hope: Global Learning and the Future of Education

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Pedagogy of Hope: Global Learning and the Future of Education

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by Douglas Bourn

Development Education Research Centre, UCL Institute of Education

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ERIC - EJ1318839 - Pedagogy of Hope: Global Learning and the Future of Education, International Journal of Development Education and Global Learning, 2021

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Global events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate emergency campaigns and the Black Lives Matter movements have recently posed challenges for educationalists about their role, particularly in relation to promoting positive visions of the future.

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Inspired by Pope Francis’ November intention of the Pope’s Global Prayer Network for “people suffering from depression or extreme exhaustion,” the Laudato Si’ Dialogue on “How to Turn Climate Anxiety into Climate Action?” sowed hope.

Experts in mental health and climate crisis participated and shared their knowledge, explaining the seriousness of climate anxiety around the world but also providing reasons for hope amidst the climate emergency and ecological crisis.

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😩How to turn climate angst into climate action?

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An article by Heidi Schlumpf in March 2024 examines young people's response to climate anxiety and how Catholic education can help turn anxiety into hope.

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‘You are not alone’: In community, young people find antidotes to climate anxiety

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Action, community and spirituality all help address the sense of doom that young people feel about the future because of climate change.

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What to Do When Climate Change Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Dealing With Climate Change Stress

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What to Do When Climate Change Scares You: A Kid's Guide to Dealing With Climate Change Stress

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A new workbook out September 2024

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Generation Dread: Finding purpose in an age of climate anxiety by Britt Wray

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"Britt Wray reintroduced me to the earth... What stuck with me more than the ambitious science-which Wray makes exceptionally accessible-is her attention to the paradoxes of human vanity." - The New Yorker

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Britt Wray is the author of Generation Dread and Rise of the Necrofauna, a provocative look at de-extinction. She was FEATURED IN THE NEW YORKER "BOOKS WE LOVED IN 2017", SELECTED BY THE SUNDAY TIMES AS A "MUST READ BEST BOOK", A SCIENCE NEWS FAVORITE BOOK OF 2017, a Finalist for the 2018 Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Award, and shortlisted for the 2018 Non-Fiction Saroyan Prize and Lane Anderson Award.

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Young Adult Reads for the Age of Climate Anxiety

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Young Adult Reads for the Age of Climate Anxiety

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Teen Library Toolbox: Guest post by Lauren Yero and Cliff Lewis

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Powerful Reads for the Age of Climate Anxiety, a guest post by Lauren Yero and Cliff Lewis

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Climate anxiety is real, it’s serious, and it’s on the rise—especially in teens and young adults.

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Three lessons cover the sacredness of water in Scripture, the global water crisis and SCIAF and our partner’s work in Ethiopia.

Suitable for Upper Primary.

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A Primary 5 resource which connects key themes from Laudato Si' with the global water crisis.
Three lessons cover the sacredness of water in Scripture, the global water crisis and SCIAF and our partner's work in Ethiopia. An optional art activity accompanies each lesson and an assembly drama along with other ideas for sharing learning are included as well.

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A Primary 5 resource which connects key themes from Laudato Si' with the global water crisis. Three lessons cover the sacredness of water in Scripture, the global water crisis and SCIAF and our partner's work in Ethiopia. An optional art activity accompanies each lesson and an assembly drama along with other ideas for sharing learning are included as well.

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Climate Justice: Called to Care for Creation

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Climate Justice: Called to Care for Creation

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For Nat 4 and Nat 5. This resource explores Care for Creation themes through global case studies, videos and games, deepening the learning on the effects of climate change and providing learners with opportunities to respond in prayer and action.

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This resource provides learners with the real-life perspective on the effects of climate change on people and planet. It shares the voices of SCIAF partners who live in the world's poorest countries, and who are most affected by climate change, but have done least to cause the problem.

Climate Justice weaves together the principles of environmental, economic and social justice offering solutions to climate injustice through sustainable development and advocacy.

There are six activities for N4/5 within this resource, exploring these themes through global case studies, videos and games plus three deep dive for N5 tasks within certain activities. All of which will deepen the learning on the effects of climate change on SCIAF partners and provide learners with opportunities to respond in prayer and action. Contact schools@sciaf.org.uk with questions, and to give any feedback on this resource.

This resource includes:

Lesson plan (pdf)

A prayer for our earth (pdf)

Activity 1
Called to Care for Creation
- Called to care for creation (PPT)- Agreement line (pdf)

Activity 2
Vulnerability Analysis
- Vulnerability Analysis (pdf)

Activity 3
Climate Emergency
- Climate Emergency Game (PPT)- Climate Emergency Game Pack (pdf)- Climate Emergency in El Salvador (pdf)- Climate Change in El Salvador (video)

Activity 4
Climate Justice
- Climate justice is vital (pdf)

Activity 5
Climate Hero
- Climate Hero (PPT)

Activity 6
Act in Hope
- Act in Hope (pdf)

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Climate Justice: Called to Care for Creation

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This resource provides learners with the real-life perspective on the effects of climate change on people and planet. It shares the voices of SCIAF partners who live in the world's poorest countries, and who are most affected by climate change, but have done least to cause the problem.

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Supporting young people to navigate the climate crisis

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Supporting young people to navigate the climate crisis

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A webinar from YouthLink Scotland looks at Eco-anxiety

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Eco anxiety: Supporting young people to navigate the climate crisis

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Climate change is a concern and cause of anxiety for children in the UK, with 70% worried about the world they will inherit (Save The Children, 2022)

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Climate change is a concern and cause of anxiety for children in the UK, with 70% worried about the world they will inherit (Save The Children, 2022)

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Children For Change is a new ebook collection of stories, illustrations and features from over 80 of UK’s greatest writers and illustrators, emerging illustrators and young writers inspiring young readers to ‘take an action’ – big or small, local or global – to protect our environments.