Hearing young people's views on climate change
School Climate Roadshows 2026
A second year of the School Climate Roadshows is now being rolled out to all schools across Shetland. Covering a range of topics from the natural greenhouse effect, to recycling, sea level rise and ocean acidification.
The roadshows team is back with lots of energy, enthusiasm and fresh ideas - raising climate change awareness in the community, sparking climate conversations and gaining insights from young people on climate action. The project creates outputs for the Shetland Climate Festival 2026, stay tuned for more information coming soon…
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