Young People Reshaping Climate Politics

This book explores how youth movements across the world are reshaping climate politics. Rather than confronting institutions only from the outside, young activists engage with, and seek to transform them from within. The cases the book brings together unfold across geographical scales and across the political spaces that young activists enter, contest, and attempt to create. They illustrate both the strategies youth actors employ and the structural constraints they continue to face. Adopting a multidimensional approach, the book shows how youth-led responses to climate injustice often converge in demands for democratic renewal and intergenerational fairness.The research presented here spans a wide range of contexts and decisively includes Global South perspectives. This global orientation broadens the book’s relevance for international readers and institutions, and speaks directly to urgent debates on inclusive and participatory climate governance.The book is especially relevant to students and academic readers working in political engagement, environmental governance, and youth studies, as well as to policy professionals, international practitioners, and civil society actors concerned with climate transitions, democratic participation, and intergenerational equity. It will also be valuable to NGOs, foundations, think tanks, and educators who work with or advocate for youth in the climate space.