Young Climate Action for World Heritage in the Wadden Sea

“Young Climate Action for World Heritage” is a youth project combining the topics UNESCO World Heritage and climate change with a focus on sustainable action. In the school year 2022-2023, in the Wadden Sea World Heritage Site, students from five, UNESCO-associated and other, schools from Denmark, Germany, and, the Netherlands learned about the challenges climate change poses on the Wadden Sea and developed their own projects on the question: How can we take responsibility for the sustainable preservation of the World Heritage Site and for combating climate change locally?

The concrete project products presented here are the outcome and were developed by the students themselves.

The project “Young Climate Action for World Heritage” is organised and implemented by the Institute Heritage Studies and the German Commission for UNESCO and funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt). Students from the UNESCO Associated Schools Network in Germany and its neighbouring countries and other schools have worked at six World Heritage Sites for one school year with the aim to design and implement their own projects on climate change and World Heritage. The Wadden Sea project group was supported by the Wadden Sea World Heritage and the International Wadden Sea School and received some expert advice from the trilateral network.