As part of the process of preparing the GEO-6 for Youth report, young people from around the world were invited to share their ideas through a survey conducted between December 2018 and April 2019. A total of 1,929 of them responded. The purpose of the survey was to gather perspectives from every world region on key environmental challenges faced by the world’s youth and possible solutions to overcome them. The survey was translated into ten languages. The perspectives obtained were used in preparing Chapters 2, 3 and 4. To learn more about the survey, see Annex 1.
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Young people are increasingly aware of diverse environmental challenges. They are well placed to observe the environmental problems that may impact them disproportionately, depending on where they live.
Six imaginary characters have been introduced in the report to contextualize the survey responses. The aim is to illustrate the experiences and concerns of youth through the voices of characters reporting from different parts of the world. This is meant to help readers better understand the global scope of environmental challenges. The characters are:
