Climate Misinformation

Curious Minds, Resilient Futures

For the generation inheriting the climate crisis, the truth was always going to be hard to hear. What no one anticipated was how hard it would be to find.

Helping young people navigate climate information with confidence, curiosity, and hope

The Issue

Young people today are growing up in a world saturated with information

Yet much of what they encounter about the climate crisis, politics, economics, AI, and democracy is confusing, misleading, or overwhelming. From social media to news headlines, it can be difficult to know what to trust, what matters most, and where they can make a difference.

This uncertainty can leave young people feeling anxious, disengaged, or powerless at a time when their voices and actions matter more than ever. when young people can't tell truth from manipulation, disengagement becomes part of the crisis. Curious Minds, Resilient Futures, is our response.

About the Programme

Through engaging, curriculum-linked activities, young people explore how information is created, shared, and sometimes distorted, while building the confidence to question, reflect, and respond constructively.

The workshop also creates space for discussion, helping students process eco-anxiety and recognise their ability to contribute to positive change.

Group of schoolgirls in black blazers and ties smiling, one holding a microphone during a climate change workshop

Young people will:

  • Explore how misinformation spreads, how emotional manipulation works, and why certain narratives travel so far using real climate content as a case study. Moving from confusion and disbelief to thinking critically.

  • Investigate an issue they care about by tracing evidence, checking sources, and asking whose interests are served by falsehood. Developing an evidence-based view rooted in both facts and truth. 

  • Test their own ideas in debate, present conclusions to peers, and receive feedback. Leaving not just having thought critically about misinformation at play, but having used their voice to advocate for change.

The Need

Why’s this programme needed?

We’ve done the research… the full report’s coming soon!

96%

Of young people failed to identify that a climate information website had links to the fossil fuel industry

72%

Of parents worry their child cannot tell real from fake information online

59%

Of young people reported being very or extremely worried about climate change

Launching in Autumn 2026

The pilot workshop will launch in Autumn 2026 and is available to schools across London. Sessions are designed to be accessible, interactive, and adaptable to different age groups. If you’re a school interested in bringing this into your school, get in touch via the form below!

What teachers and young people are saying…

"Climate change worries me, but so does AI misinformation - how many people now form opinions from a single social media post."

- YOUNG PERSON, ON A GENEARTH PROGRAMME

A group of five young girls and one adult woman standing behind a table at a school fair or science exhibition. The women and students are smiling, wearing school uniforms and badges. The table displays various posters, papers, and a laptop. Signage on the table indicates a project called 'The Sort-Smart Bin' and another titled 'The Planet Protectors.' The background includes a large black screen and wooden paneling.

“Misinformation is becoming so prominent and embedded in students' thinking.”

- SECONDARY HEAD TEACHER, WORKING WITH GENEARTH

“The increased focus on media literacy is very welcome. Given how much the media landscape has expanded, it is essential that students learn how to navigate it critically. From a science perspective, media literacy can be understood as a form of “peer review” for everyday information.

- HEAD OF SCIENCE, WORKING WITH GENEARTH

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Four girls in white shirts standing behind a table with a laptop, at a school presentation or event, in front of a large screen displaying images of other students.

The Impact

What do young people gain?

We’re so proud of the change we’ve been able to effect with the wonderful young people we’ve worked with. We can wait to see what happens next!

Clarity

Understand how digital manipulation shapes the stories they're told.

Confidence

Speak up, present ideas, and defend a position with their peers.

Agency

The permission, tools, and space to turn their ideas into action.

Conviction

Connect personal values to the issues that matter most to them.

Discernment

Question what they see and decode the tactics behind misleading content.

Book the Programme
for your school

GenEarth in your school

Get in touch with your details and be the first book this programme for your school.

Complete this short form, and one of our team will get back to you for a chat, and to answer any questions you may have. We look forward to speaking!

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions?

  • We currently deliver our programmes in-person throughout London schools and community settings, more locations to come as we grow! If you’re outside of London, we can definitely host an online workshop for you.

  • As a pilot, we are currently able to offer this workshop for free in exchange for teacher and student feedback.

  • We do not give young people a checklist. We build the critical thinking skills to interrogate what they are being told, to ask who is saying it, why, what evidence sits behind it and whose interests it serves. Those skills apply far beyond the climate crisis.

  • Please notify us ASAP to make any changes to your booking. Please note if you cancel a workshop within two working days of the workshop delivery date we will have to apply a charge. Please contact info@genearth.uk for further information.

  • Teachers are required to be present throughout the duration of the workshop to support the students, to ensure all the AV equipment is set up in advance and to print a small amount of worksheets.

  • Climate misinformation does not exist in isolation. Young people are navigating an information landscape that is, at best, overwhelming and at worst, deliberately misleading across climate, politics, health and social justice. The volume of conflicting narratives and the sophistication with which misinformation is produced makes it genuinely difficult to know what to trust.

    In the context of the climate crisis, misinformation ranges from outright denial to subtler forms of doubt-seeding and greenwashing. It does not just confuse. It paralyses. That is why media literacy and critical thinking are not add-ons to our programmes. They are central to everything we do.