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Working with partners at Youth and Environment Europe, King’s College London, the University of Antwerp, the Centro Federal de Educação Tecnológica Celso Suckow da Fonseca, the University of York delivered a non-formal intervention involving academics, NGO partners and young people from UK and international institutions. The intervention aimed to identify the questions and priorities of young people in relation to different responses to the climate crisis, including different methods of geoengineering.

The purpose of this intervention was to understand youth perspectives on geoengineering (climate intervention) proposals by piloting a co-creative approach to research with young people (using the European Commission definition as those aged 15-29) living or studying in Europe. Young people with a mean age of 22, academics and NGO partners collaborated over a 4 day (2 x 2 weekends) online programme to think and learn together and write a youth guide and policy brief about geoengineering.