The Climate Repair Café
Youth Education Sessions

Our future is soon in their hands.
So let's work with them on the knowledge and tools they need to make positive change to our climate and planet.

The Youth Education Sessions platform is designed to inspire, inform and engage youth from around the world on the fast-moving state of the climate, what research and action is being undertaken to address the crisis, and, most importantly, how they can become directly involved.

We provide short, easy-to-understand stories featuring scientists, artists, elders, activists, innovators, journalists and visionaries.

Each video module is introduced and discussed with youth to promote a deeper understanding of the issues and possible paths forward.

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Below is a selection of video modules and graphics to inspire, inform, empower, and engage

Each restoration class or meeting commences with an educator explaining the concept of climate restoration.

This is followed by an introduction to the video segment - what the subject is about and why it's being shared.

After playing the segment, a discussion follows, taking a deeper look into the particular subject, the challenges and opportunities that may arise, and introducing the concept of safety and governance.

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Module 2 video series:

Reducing emissions is the most important action to take, but it is not enough to stop the ever-increasing climate challenges we are all facing.

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Module transcript for discussion >>>

People around the world are waking up to the fact that the maths and the data don't add up when it comes to climate change.

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We're beginning to realize that reducing fossil fuel emissions into the atmosphere may slow things down, but it won't stop climate conditions getting worse and worse.

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So if we want a climate that we can all thrive in - and not live in fear of - we also have to find ways to remove the enormous amounts of carbon dioxide and methane that we've been putting into the atmosphere for the last 200 years.

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And that is where climate restoration comes in.

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Climate Restoration is the new and evolving science of restoring the climate to how it was before the Industrial Revolution, by removing large amounts of carbon dioxide, or CO2, and methane from the atmosphere.

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There's a wide range of methods being explored to remove carbon dioxide and methane from the atmosphere to stabilize the climate. And so far, the most promising are ones that mimic how nature removes these gases.

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The focus of this film is on land-based CO2 removal solutions, with an emphasis on construction - everything from roads to homes to cities to dams.

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We look at the history of CO2 removal, how the construction industry, one of the biggest emitters of CO2, can be used to store CO2.

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We meet with companies using organic materials, such as algae. We visit communities using age-old technologies to build carbon-negative homes, and visit a direct air capture system in Iceland.

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But can these methods be safely accelerated and taken to a large enough scale to have an impact? And can they be financed?

People suffering all over the world from floods, from droughts, from heat waves, this is all due to the CO2 in the atmosphere that we already have. And this CO2 in the atmosphere is not going away anywhere by itself. It's going to stay thereSo if we stop emissions right now, this very moment, the series of extreme weather events will continue. That's the new norm

The state of our planet desperately calls for all of us to be open to new ways of approaching the climate. And to do that we have to go back 800,000 years to understand how we got to this point.

A blink of an eye in geological terms, but long enough to recognize the steady pulse of a self-regulating system.

Here at the US National Ice Core Lab in Antarctica, scientists drill and retrieve ice cores to learn about how our climate has changed over thousands of years. Here at the US National Ice Core Lab in Antarctica, scientists drill and retrieve ice cores to learn about how our climate has changed over thousands of years.