Advocating for child and youth climate justice

Do you work at the intersection of art, climate change and child or youth justice?

Are you developing a programme or project to empower young people to take action on climate?

Are you a youth climate leader (15-30) interested in creative approaches for climate action?

Join us to share your work, learn from other child and youth workers and reflect on the role of creativity in advocating for the climate rights of children and young people.

We will be joined by two advocates for children’s rights and climate justice: Katie Reid, Children's Rights, Climate and Democracy Adviser at CRIN (Child Rights International Network) and Jack Stancliffe, Project Manager for the Child Human Rights Defenders programme at Children’s Parliament. Katie will share her experiences involving children in Scotland’s Climate Assembly, a democratic innovation which has inspired intergenerational climate assemblies around the world. Jack will reflect on how children have shaped education, government, and national and global climate agendas through key projects and moments in Children's Parliament's history, exploring ideas around children's representation and asking what it means to take children seriously as political and ecological actors.

Inspired by the deliberative democratic processes used by both Katie and Children’s Parliament the session will be wholly interactive, with different modes of sharing, discussion and time to forge connections. Arts practitioners and cultural organisations, climate workers and climate hubs, young people and youth-led initiatives are all encouraged to participate. We want to celebrate the diversity of arts-climate child and youth work undertaken across Scotland, bringing this community together to share challenges, inspiration, ideas and resources.

Our Collaborators

• Katie Reid works for CRIN, an organisation focused on children's rights, democracy and climate. Katie works with governments, institutions and organisations to better involve children in democratic processes and climate governance. Katie has previously led local, national, EU and global participatory processes involving children. She was also an advisor to the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork, supporting children’s participation in research related to children's climate action and litigation.

• Jack Stancliffe works at Children's Parliament leading projects that support children to influence policy and decision-making across Scotland. His work focuses on children's rights, participation and creative engagement across education, climate and social justice. Alongside this, Jack works as an artist, producer and researcher, developing participatory and place-based projects across the arts and culture sector.

About Green Tease 

This is a Green Tease event, part of culture/SHIFT's ongoing informal events programme connecting cultural practices and environmental sustainability across Scotland. Since 2013, Green Tease has provided a platform for those interested in teasing out the links between the arts, climate change and environmental sustainability through the exchange of ideas, knowledge and practices. Green Tease events are open to people from creative and environmental backgrounds and free to attend.

Accessibility

This event will take place on Zoom. You will be invited to participate throughout in whatever way you feel comfortable: using your camera and microphone, the chat function, or on interactive platforms such as Slido, via your phone. We ask that you mute yourself while others are speaking and use the ‘raise hand’ function to indicate when you want to speak. 

Safeguarding

Young people are encouraged to attend this Green Tease, specifically those already interested and active on climate change. We ask that those aged 12-14 are accompanied by an adult.

Our Safeguarding Policy 2026 outlines our commitment and procedures for ensuring the safety of children, young people and vulnerable adults who engage with our work.

For this Green Tease, there will be two facilitating members of staff who hold membership of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) scheme managed by Disclosure Scotland.

Do you need support to attend?

Culture for Climate Scotland is committed to ensuring that our events are accessible for everyone, regardless of their age, disability, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, economic status or caring responsibility.

We will make any necessary adjustments to our events so that no one is excluded. These adjustments will, most likely, differ from event-to-event and person-to-person, so we need your help to get it right. In the past, we have provided quiet spaces, British Sign Language interpreters and internet dongles for portable internet access.

Some adjustments may take more time to arrange than others, so we appreciate you giving us as much notice as possible about what you need so that we can support you to get the most out of this event.

Please inform us of your accessibility requirements for this event during the registration process. If you have any questions or concerns, please send an email to hannah.imlach@cultureforclimate.scot or telephone +44 (0)131 243 2760 and speak to a member of staff.

Header image: Illustration by Miriam Sugranyes, CRIN.