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Hello and welcome to the September edition of our Youth Climate Justice Research Network newsletter!
This network is supported by the Youth Climate Justice project at University College Cork. The project is led by Prof. Aoife Daly and funded by the European Research Council (ERC). For more about the project and our team, feel free to visit our website. You can also watch the recordings of our online research forums here!
If you have any events, publications, or opportunities you’d like featured in the next edition, please email youthclimatejustice@ucc.ie by October 9th with ‘Research Network Newsletter’ in the subject line. This newsletter is prepared by YCJ Postdoctoral Researcher Florencia Paz Landeira.
PROJECT NEWS
Online book launch: The Rights of Children and Youth in the Climate Crisis – Wednesday 14 October, 12:30 Irish time, on Microsoft Teams. Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, joins authors Aoife Daly, Florencia Paz Landeira and Liesl Muller for a conversation led by three young climate advocates: Niamh Purcell, Sumaya Mohammed and Emilia Becerra, who will put the questions to the panel. Registration is open and the book is free to read.
Argentina fieldwork begins: The YCJ Argentina case study opens on 15 September at I.E.S. Juan B. Justo in Buenos Aires, led by YCJ postdoctoral researcher Florencia Paz Landeira. Students aged 9–17 will engage in participatory arts-based workshops until November, closing with a joint exhibition — and we look forward to sharing findings from the discussions and from the children's and young people's own artworks.
Sharing the project with young people across Ireland: On 14 September, PI Prof. Aoife Daly and Postdoctoral Researcher Florencia Paz Landeira took part in a climate justice session with 14–17 year old participants in ECO-UNESCO's Youth Climate Justice Programme, joining online from across Ireland and facilitated by Marielle Faucher. The YCJ team discussed young climate action with participants on how it can be transformative for the environment.
CLIMATE FACTS
In each newsletter, we try to include some climate facts from/for our younger audience 😊 If you or someone you know would like to contribute, please let us know.
Climate fact of the month: the bird that lives in three countries at once: A flamingo in Argentina was given a tiny tracker, like a little backpack. In October 2022 it took off from a lagoon near Buenos Aires and flew more than 1,400 km without landing once — no stops for food, water or sleep — all the way to a salty lake high in the mountains of Jujuy, almost 4,500 metres above the sea. That is higher than most clouds. Andean flamingos do this all the time. They move between salty mountain lakes in Argentina, Bolivia and Chile, so three countries are really one big home to them. Fewer than 80,000 are left, and their lakes are drying up. Some are being dug up too, to get lithium — the metal inside phone and car batteries. In 2008 the other countries where these flamingos live signed an agreement to look after them together. Argentina never signed it.
OPEN CALLS AND EVENTS
Routledge Handbook of Young People's Environmental Activism: online launch: Aoife Daly has co-authored a chapter in this new handbook with Katie Reid, the project's former Child Participation Advisor, and young authors Āniva Clarke and Bach Lam, on the environmental action of children and youth and its impact on human rights law. Edited by Sadiya Akram and Benjamin Bowman, the volume launches online on Tuesday 22 September, 14:00–15:00 Irish time, with a panel of chapter authors including young authors. Registration is free on Eventbrite.
A Stable Climate as a Requirement for Democracy and Human Rights: The 2026 annual conference of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research working group on Human Rights and the Climate Crisis takes place at the Amsterdam Law School on 5–6 November, co-organised with the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies, the University of Amsterdam and Tilburg University. More info here.
Indigenous Rights: Self-Determination, Justice and Decolonial Futures – The Indigenous Rights Cluster at UCC's Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights invites proposals for its launch symposium, to be held at UCC on Thursday 3 December. Themes include climate change, Indigenous knowledge systems; and the rights of Indigenous women and youth. Priority goes to Indigenous-led contributions and work developed with Indigenous communities, and early-career researchers, practitioners, activists and community-based contributors are warmly encouraged. More info here.
PUBLICATIONS
Article: Challenging anthropocentrism in human rights: Children’s relational approach to the right to a healthy environment, by Emily Margaret Murray
Article: Silenced by Design: the Children’s Right to Participate in Stellenbosch’s Municipal Decision-Making, by Lungelwa Kaywood.
Article: Special Issue: Youth Studies in Australia and the Climate Crisis: Time for Action, edited by Philippa Collin, Judith Bessant & Michelle Catanzaro.
Article: “I see you. I hope you see me”: Spotlighting student voice on climate change education through a page-to-stage arts-based educational research initiative, by Colleen Redmond &Betsy Maloney-Leaf
Article: The “where, who, why” of youth engagement in environmental decision-making: a scoping review, by Julia Steel, Sandy Kerr, Chris D. B. Leakey, Bernadette Snow & Karen A. Alexander
Book: Climate Justice for Children: Impacts of Climate Change and Solutions, edited by Handan Akyiğit & Mahnaz Gümrükçüoğlu Yiğit
Book chapter: Venezuelan Migrant Children: Environmental Statelessness and Colombia’s Climate Policy Gaps, by Juan Sebastián Sánchez-Gómez & María Catalina Ramirez Cajiao.