How can we address the climate crisis with children and young people from a critical, participatory, and transformative perspective? This is the question that structures a training proposal combining experiential, participatory, and collective reflection dynamics to delve into the links between the environmental crisis, the global model of production and consumption, and the inequalities between the Global North and South.

The objective of the training is to provide participants with knowledge, methodologies, and practical tools that they can later apply in youth groups, leisure centers, summer camps, educational centers, or other spaces of work with children and young people, promoting critical thinking, participation, and commitment to social transformation.

The polluted promises of the green transition

The session is part of the project "The polluted promises of the green transition", promoted by SETEM Catalunya within the framework of the DevReporter grants. The project gathers journalistic research carried out in August 2025 by independent journalists Jaume Portell and Núria Vilà, who traveled to Guinea and Senegal to document the social and environmental impacts of mineral extraction necessary for the manufacture of digital technologies and electric vehicles.

The research pays special attention to bauxite extraction in Guinea and gold in Senegal, showing the consequences these activities have on local communities and ecosystems, and raising a critical reflection on the contradictions and limits of an energy transition based on increased extractivism.

Based on these contents, the training offers pedagogical resources so that participants can transfer these issues to children and young people, fostering an understanding of global interdependencies and the construction of alternatives for a just ecosocial transition.

Those interested can register for the training through the form: https://nextcloud.pangea.org/apps/forms/s/9kNxgNymBNqeNGPBmAZNRRd8.

The project is supported by Lafede.cat and funded by the European Union, within the framework of the Connect for Global Change program, and by the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation (ACCD).