Western Mass Youth Climate Summit
“I can make a change in my community to solve climate change, and not just sit around thinking I can’t do anything to help.” – Western Mass Climate Summit Participant
The Youth Climate Summit is an educational conference for students throughout Western Massachusetts and surrounding regions. The summit is planned, organized, and facilitated by youth. Student participants attend workshops that give them tools to address climate change in their personal lives, schools, and communities. As a culminating project, attending school teams develop an action plan to bring back to their high school.
The Summit is held at Springfield Museums and summit themes include the following:
- Climate justice
- Eco hope
- Lenses, tools, and levers for change
- Creative climate action
Resources for youth and school teams that are interested in the youth climate summit:
- Register a youth team or learn more about the 2024 Youth Climate Summit on the 2024 Youth Climate Summit Website
- Learn about the Youth Climate Leadership Program on the Mass Audubon website.
- Learn about how to form a team and how to make a climate action project with the Climate Activist Toolkit
More about youth climate summits:
- The summit began in 2017 as a partnership between Mass Audubon and Hitchcock Center for the Environment and through the years has moved into a youth-led structure. Learn more about the Youth Climate Leadership Program on the Mass Audubon website.
- The Summit is modeled on the Adirondack Youth Climate Summit developed by the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY
This work by the Youth Climate Leadership Program is sponsored by:
The Lorber Family; The Howard Family Foundation; Generation Ratify; Unpaved Trails For All; The Springfield Climate Justice Coalition; Sunrise Amherst
Sapling Foundation; The Lazy Explorer Photography; Youth Climate Action Now
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