IFGA26 Categories > Climate Change
Climate Change
Working on a project responding to environmental challenges in relation to place?
This category is likely a good fit.
This category focuses on how children and young people contribute to environmental responses — including how places adapt, respond or become more sustainable.
Projects may vary in scale and stage — from early ideas through to implemented change.
It includes work where their input shapes:
environmental design decisions
sustainable behaviours
climate responses in places
The key is that their involvement contributed to environmental change or action, not just awareness.
What this includes
Input shaping environmental design or interventions
Contributions influencing sustainability strategies or approaches
Ideas leading to changes in behaviour or use of place
Work addressing climate challenges such as biodiversity, resilience or resource use
What counts
Evidence that environmental decisions were shaped by input
Changes to design, behaviour or strategy
Demonstrable environmental outcomes linked to participation
This doesn’t include
Awareness-only projects with no change
Learning about climate without application to place
Activity not connected to environmental decisions
If your work spans multiple areas, choose the category that best represents what was shaped. If it fits within two categories, submit each application separately as an original entry
Examples of strong submissions
These illustrate how children and young people have shaped environmental responses in relation to place.
Young people’s input led to changes in environmental design or interventions.
Contributions influenced how a place responds to climate challenges such as biodiversity, heat or resource use.
Young people’s ideas shaped sustainable behaviours or use of space.
Input informed environmental strategies or approaches within a project.
Projects where young people’s involvement contributed to measurable environmental outcomes.