Inspiring young people to value trees - Kate Pahl and Simon Carr

In the lead-up to #COP26, we sat down with Kate Pahl and Simon Carr, the researchers behind the Voices of the Future project.
Their mission is to inspire and engage young people in recognising, valuing, and promoting treescapes as part of the solution to #climatechange.
Kate Pahl is the Principal Investigator of the Voices of the Future project and, alongside Simon Carr who is the Co-Investigator for the project, they are aiming to engage #youngpeople in recognising, valuing, and promoting #treescapes. The project will evaluate how young people relate to, and engage with, the trees that surround them, especially those children whose voices are rarely heard.
Kate and Simon’s research team will encourage young people to find their sense of ownership and belonging in the treescapes of the future and aim to offer children and young people hope and empowerment in envisaging their future relationship with treescapes, and how this contributes to UK and global #climatemitigation ambitions.
“Our hope for the COP26 meeting is that the delegates will recognise and listen to the voices of young people and to build them into actions that arise from the meeting. Children and young people of today will be tasked as adults with delivering the ambitions of COP26, and they need to be valued and empowered to become the labour that meets this greatest of challenges”, says Kate.
Join us to learn more about their work and how young people can play a vital role in the fight against climate change.
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