Understanding the Triple Planetary Crisis

Overview

This project aims to build awareness and capacity among young people on how European regions experience the triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution). Through training, advocacy, and digital storytelling, participants will explore the Right to a Healthy Environment (RtHE) and develop digital local advocacy projects to amplify regional perspectives on RtHE.

The project fosters solidarity, raises awareness, and empowers young people through education, cooperation, and advocacy. By enhancing cross-border knowledge sharing and promoting the right to a healthy environment (RTHE), it seeks to build a united and strategic youth response to environmental challenges, emphasising the importance of regional and social contexts.

Who is the project for?

The project targets youth workers involved in environmental and human rights activism and university students interested in environmental law, climate justice, and advocacy.

Objectives

Advocacy

Promote advocacy for the RTHE across diverse regions of Europe, emphasising the unique challenges and perspectives of each region.
Encourage youth to implement localised actions while thinking globally, and to demonstrate how individual and local efforts can contribute to wider environmental change.

Capacity Building

Empower youth, especially youth workers and university students, with the skills to take action in their communities, advocating for environmental rights and influencing decision-making processes to have a stronger response to the triple planetary crisis.
Enhance international cooperation and communication between youth organisations across Europe, enabling knowledge sharing and strategic collaboration on environmental issues.

Collaboratively create strategies for addressing environmental challenges, grounded in a clear understanding of the varying definitions and applications of the right to a healthy environment across different European contexts.

Awareness Raising

Increase knowledge and understanding among young people about how different regions and social groups experience the triple planetary crisis (climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution), with a particular link to the right to a healthy environment (RTHE).
Creating visual story-telling content to support the activities above by adopting an artistic interpretation reflecting youth and environmental action in different geographical areas of Europe.