Local Voices. Global Justice.An open environmental justice advocacy platform
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Connecting Youth, Education, and Environmental Justice Across Borders
Local Voices. Global Justice.
Environmental challenges cross borders, disciplines, and communities. Addressing them requires more than awareness: it requires accessible knowledge, meaningful youth participation, interdisciplinary collaboration, and action grounded in local realities.
The EJA Youth Research & Action Network connects environmental stories with scientific evidence, legal and policy analysis, psychology, and community perspectives. Working with schools, environmental organizations, youth initiatives, and educational communities, EJA develops knowledge exchange, youth-led projects, environmental education, and collaborative action.
Our partners bring complementary experience in sustainability, environmental education, conservation, global citizenship, and youth participation. Together we run research, education, and storytelling work that reaches students and communities across regions.
Our goal is to turn connections into meaningful opportunities for environmental learning, shared knowledge, and community action.
EJA works directly with every organization on this page — through joint education programmes, shared research, and youth-led initiatives. Each status shows the stage that collaboration has reached.
Schools and education networks where EJA works with students and educators on environmental justice learning, cross-cultural exchange, and student-led inquiry.
Active collaboration
An international school community in Burundi serving students from local and international backgrounds. EJA works with the school to bring environmental justice education, cross-cultural learning, and youth-led environmental engagement to its students and educators.
Official websiteActive collaboration
An educator-led nonprofit providing interactive online learning and professional learning for a global network of schools and educators. EJA works with educators across this network to bring international perspectives on global environmental issues into interdisciplinary learning.
Official websiteActive collaboration
An international school community in Nanjing, China, educating students from diverse backgrounds. EJA works with the school community on interdisciplinary learning, student leadership, global citizenship, and youth-led environmental initiatives.
Official websiteActive collaboration
The Global Citizen Diploma is a high-school credential recognising students’ growth as global citizens through reflection, learning, and meaningful local and global engagement. EJA works with schools in this consortium — including Nanjing International School — on global citizenship learning and student-led inquiry into environmental issues.
Official websiteOrganizations working on conservation, sustainability education, and practical environmental action, with whom EJA develops education and public-engagement work.
Active collaboration
A global sustainability education programme operated by the Foundation for Environmental Education, supporting schools to build sustainability into teaching, decision-making, campus practices, and community participation through a practical, action-oriented framework. EJA works alongside the programme to help young people investigate environmental challenges and turn their learning into practical initiatives.
Official websiteActive collaboration
Part of the international WWF conservation network, working to protect and restore nature, address threats to wildlife and habitats, support more sustainable systems, and engage communities in environmental action. EJA collaborates with WWF-UK on conservation and public engagement, connecting environmental evidence with awareness, accountability, and action.
Official websiteActive collaboration
An environmental education and youth organization based in Ireland, focused on environmental awareness, sustainability education, and youth engagement. EJA works with ECO-UNESCO to make environmental justice accessible to young people through learning, storytelling, and community initiatives.
Official websiteActive collaboration
A UK-based charitable organization promoting environmental education and supporting educators who develop environmental understanding and sustainable practice. EJA works with NAEE to connect environmental knowledge with accessible learning resources, curriculum development, outdoor learning, and informed action.
Official websiteYouth-led networks and community-based organizations that partner with EJA to connect environmental action with local priorities and lived experience.
Active collaboration
A community-focused organization working to improve social well-being and support sustainable development, particularly among vulnerable communities. EJA works with IPSDI Burundi to connect environmental challenges with lived experience, climate awareness, resilience, and local priorities.
Official websiteActive collaboration
A regional network connecting and amplifying environmental initiatives and young environmental advocates across Asia. EJA works with AEYN to bring local environmental experiences and youth perspectives into wider regional and international conversations.
Official websiteActive collaboration
A European network of environmental youth organizations supporting youth participation, environmental education, international cooperation, and young people’s involvement in climate and environmental decision-making. EJA works with YEE to help young people investigate environmental injustice and take part meaningfully in environmental action.
Official websiteTogether with the schools, educator networks, and youth organizations above, EJA connects local knowledge with broader perspectives and makes environmental learning more meaningful. Our joint work covers:
Working with partners to support young people investigating environmental challenges in their schools and communities.
Co-creating accessible resources that connect scientific evidence, environmental justice, law, and policy.
Building responsible opportunities, with our partners, for local experiences and perspectives to be documented and understood.
Bringing together environmental science, legal and policy analysis, psychology, and lived experience in joint programmes.
Connecting students, educators, youth networks, and community organizations across geographical boundaries.
Delivering school projects, educational workshops, and community initiatives that respond to locally identified needs.
These are the areas where EJA and its partners are actively working together across regions and disciplines.
EJA welcomes conversations with schools, environmental organizations, educators, researchers, youth networks, and community initiatives interested in environmental justice, sustainability education, ethical storytelling, and youth-led action.
We are particularly interested in collaborations that help young people understand environmental challenges, bring underrepresented perspectives into wider conversations, and turn knowledge into meaningful community engagement.
Whether you represent a school, an environmental initiative, a youth network, or a community organization, we would welcome the chance to work with you.