Empowering Tomorrow: Activating Youth for Climate Action


On May 21, 2024, the Yale Center for Environmental Communication hosted a webinar on how young people are grappling with climate change and efforts to engage them on the topic. Grace Gibson-Snyder, a Yale College student and plaintiff in landmark climate case, Held v. State of Montana moderated a conversation with Dr. Matthew Ballew, Research Specialist at the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, Puji Masireddy, Youth Advisory Board Member at Action for the Climate Emergency, and Stephanie Hanes, journalist with the Christian Science Monitor’s Climate Generation project.