Hearing young people's views on climate change
School Climate Roadshows 2026
A second year of the School Climate Roadshows has now been achieved. This year’s roadshow saw a deep dive into ocean acidification, sea level rise and the albedo affect. This included an interactive mix of Jargon Busters videos, presentations, experiments, quizzes and workshops. The project helps to raise climate change awareness in the community, empowers young people to take climate action and learn more about climate change.
The climate team enjoyed interesting discussions with the young people, and their ideas for tackling the climate emergency. The team will now look at implementing some new ideas because of their feedback.
The team hope to be back next year for a third edition of School Climate Roadshows, stay tuned…
Schools Climate Roadshow 2026 End Project Report
The 2026 End Project Report is now available to read, it details the project aims, objectives, and goals and how these were achieved. It provides recommendations for the future direction of the project including a changing focussed theme each year.
Schools Climate Roadshow 2025 End Project Report
The final output of the Schools Climate Roadshow Project was to produce a closing report. The End Project Report describes how the project achieved its overall goal and objectives, and includes recommendations for the delivery of future roadshow projects.
You can access the report via the link below:
Schools Climate Roadshow Film 2025
Join Shetland Islands Council's Climate Change Strategy Team as they travel across the isles to hear young people's views on climate change.
Shetland Islands Council’s School Climate Roadshows aims to raise awareness of climate change and hear young people’s views from across the isles.
The project is led by the Council’s Climate Change Strategy team, with the first roadshow in 2025.
A book, pictured above, called Climate Change from a Young Person’s Perspective features 44 winning entries from the Climate Change Creative Competition - as young people created posters, leaflets, poems or stories on the topic.
The team visited schools from Baltasound to Dunrossness with P6-7 and S1-S2 pupils taking part in the debut project.
The 50-minute sessions included a presentation from our team, a Climate Yarns video on local climate change hazards and risks, a carbon cycle game, workshop activities, a quiz and discussions.
A book, film, and art launch was created for the 2025 Shetland Climate Festival held on the 13th of September at the Clickimin in Lerwick.
We look forward to more school climate roadshows in the future and hope you will join us.
For more information email climatechange@shetland.gov.uk