Northern Ireland's draft Climate Action Plan Children and Young People’s Survey

Overview

Let’s Talk About Climate Change!

This page covers some of the information you might need to help you complete the survey.

You may have already talked about climate change and the draft Climate Action Plan with your teacher or your classmates.

It’s really important that you get to share your ideas on climate change! The draft Climate Action Plan is about protecting the planet for your future, so your voice matters. We want to hear your views and ideas on the environment and our climate so that we can make the best possible decisions for today and for the future.

What is the government?
The government is a group of people who help run the country you live in. They make important decisions to make sure everything runs properly – like hospitals, schools, libraries, public transport and farms. These people – who we call politicians – also make laws, which help take care of the environment.

What’s the Climate Action Plan?
The government of Northern Ireland wants to cut down the amount of pollution we make — especially greenhouse gases* — and reach something called net zero by the year 2050. That means balancing the pollution we make with the pollution we take out of the air. Our Climate Action Plan is one way that we can help make that happen. It sets out all the plans and ideas that will help us reduce the amount of harmful gas and pollution in our atmosphere to the end of 2027. There will be a new plan every five years, with new ideas and all of these will add up to help us reach net zero.