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A research group of 16 senior undergraduate students were granted access to the work of these youth. These university students were participating in a degree-capping project in the course RSOC 410 - Research Methods and Policy Applications in Applied Environmental Sociology, to complete requirements for bachelor's degrees related to the human dimensions of environmental issues at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. The project supervisor, Dr. Debra Davidson, is a Professor in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. Data was collected from three different sources: blog assignments posted in the virtual classroom, in-person semi-structured interviews conducted at the Bennett Centre in Edmonton, and the White Paper prepared for the IPCC. The proposed research project was reviewed and approved by the Research Ethics Board at the University of Alberta. All participation was voluntary, with participants providing 1.2 METHODS informed consent and receiving no compensation. The 99 youth participants hail from Monterrey, Mexico; São Paulo, Brazil; Accra, Ghana; Bogotá, Columbia; Ptuj, Slovenia; Jakarta, Indonesia; Beijing, China; San Francisco, USA; Nairobi, Kenya; Delhi, India; London, UK; Lima, Peru; Edmonton, Canada; and Calgary, Canada. Overall, text was collected from 297 different participant blogs. The number of students from each school varied; some schools only had one participating student, while others had entire classes participating. School and class structures between the different countries were highly variable, thus affecting blog responses. "The emphasis of our report highlights the interviews relative to the blogs, as these allowed us to focus on the experience and knowledge of team members in the IPCC project, above and beyond what they learned through curriculum content." | 09 Y O U T H A N D C L I M A T E C H A N G E 2 0 1 8 E D I T I O N

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