Why young people are stepping back from the climate conversation

Young people are not disengaging from public dialogue out of indifference, but because they feel politically invisible.

That is the central finding of new research by the Cypriot NGO AKTI Project and Research Centre, carried out together with the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research and the environmental organisation Nature Trust FEE Malta, under the European project RESIsles.

Using climate change as a lens through which to examine democratic participation, the project engaged more than 3,500 young people across Cyprus...