YouthEarth dataset: youth participation in global environmental negotiations

Objective and description The primary objective for compiling this dataset was to create data on the topic of youth participation in international environmental negotiations. While current research concentrates on youth protests, especially with regards to climate change, the YouthEarth dataset produces data on youth participation in formal negotiation processes beyond climate governance by also including biodiversity and sustainable development as case studies. It traces the evolution of youth participation across time and negotiation processes. It also compiles metadata about the anonymized youth participants and their organizations. More precisely, the dataset contains all youth-related participations to international environmental conferences between 1993 and 2024. The international environmental conferences covered are the yearly UNFCCC COPs (from COP1 in 1995 to COP29 in 2024) and UN summits of the CSD (from CSD1 1993 to CSD20 in 2013) and HLPF (from HLPF1 in 2013 to HLPF12 in 2024), and the biannual CBD COPs (from COP1 in 1994 to COP16 in 2024). The dataset is made of in 1 .csv file that contains 2 sheets (YouthEarthDatabase; Parameters). The detailed description of the data is expected to be published soon in a peer-reviewed open access journal. Credit author statement Anaëlle Vergonjeanne: Conceptualization, investigation, data curation, formal analysis. Amandine Orsini: Conceptualization, methodology, investigation, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition. Yi hyun Kang: Data collection, conceptualization, methodology. Juan Felipe Duque: Data collection. Acknowledgement We acknowledge the financial support of the FRS-FNRS Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (Belgium National Fund for Research) under Grant n° T.0020.21 for the 4-year (2021-2024) PDR project “Youth Earth” (https://www.crespo.be/youth-earth/).