The Global Student Climate Research and Action Network (GSCRAN) is an international network of students, educators, researchers, schools, and community partners working together to transform climate education into meaningful and evidence-based action.
GSCRAN believes that young people should not only learn about climate change but should also be equipped to investigate environmental challenges, develop realistic solutions, implement climate initiatives, and evaluate their impact. Through research, mentoring, collaboration, and regional engagement, the network provides students with opportunities to become climate researchers, project designers, community partners, and youth leaders.
Our Vision
GSCRAN envisions a global network of schools where students and educators design, implement, and share local climate solutions that strengthen communities and inspire regional action.
This vision recognises that climate change affects communities differently. Effective climate action must therefore be grounded in local realities, supported by evidence, and developed in collaboration with the people most affected by environmental challenges.
Our Mission
GSCRAN’s mission is to equip students and educators with the knowledge, tools, mentoring, and platforms needed to investigate climate challenges and develop feasible, evidence-based climate action projects.
The network supports participants throughout the full climate-action process—from understanding an issue and gathering evidence to designing, implementing, presenting, and improving a project.
Our Tagline
From Climate Awareness to Climate Action
The GSCRAN tagline reflects the organisation’s commitment to moving beyond information and awareness. Climate education becomes more meaningful when students can apply what they have learned to genuine challenges within their schools and communities.
Our Core Promise
We Make GSCRAN Known to the World
GSCRAN is committed to increasing the visibility of student-led climate research and action. Through publications, regional chapters, digital platforms, dialogues, exhibitions, and future summits, the network seeks to amplify youth voices and share locally developed climate solutions with a wider international audience.
GSCRAN Theory of Change
GSCRAN’s Theory of Change is based on a structured pathway that helps students move progressively from climate learning to practical action.
Learn
Students develop a deep understanding of climate science, sustainability, environmental systems, and local climate-related issues. This foundation helps them recognise how climate change affects communities, ecosystems, livelihoods, health, education, and development.
Question
Students use an inquiry-driven approach to identify and define climate challenges. They ask meaningful questions about the causes, impacts, and possible responses to environmental problems in their schools and communities.
Investigate
Students collect and analyse evidence through observation, surveys, interviews, fieldwork, mapping, experiments, document analysis, or other appropriate research methods. Investigation ensures that climate solutions are based on evidence rather than assumptions.
Design
Using their findings, students develop realistic and context-sensitive climate action proposals. Each project should respond to an identified need, include achievable objectives, consider available resources, and involve relevant community partners.
Act
Students implement pilot climate actions within their schools or communities. These may include environmental campaigns, conservation projects, waste-management initiatives, climate education programmes, resilience activities, community research, or other locally relevant interventions.
Evaluate
Students assess the effectiveness and impact of their projects. They examine what worked, what needs improvement, what evidence of change was produced, and how the initiative may be strengthened, expanded, or adapted.
Together, these stages contribute to the creation of a Climate Action Ecosystem in which students, educators, researchers, schools, communities, and partner organisations collaborate to produce practical, evidence-based, and sustainable climate solutions.
The GSCRAN pathway may be expressed as:
Learn → Question → Investigate → Design → Act → Evaluate → Climate Action Ecosystem
This framework ensures that climate education does not end with awareness. Instead, it develops knowledge, research capacity, leadership, collaboration, and long-term community action.
Strategic Priorities
GSCRAN is working toward the establishment of national and regional chapters, including GSCRAN Philippines, GSCRAN Indonesia, GSCRAN India, and other country or regional networks. These chapters will provide local structures for collaboration while remaining connected to the wider global network.
The organisation will elect student and professional officers who will serve as regional representatives, programme coordinators, and chapter builders. This leadership structure will ensure that young people are actively involved in shaping the direction of the network.
GSCRAN will also expand its communications platforms through official social media accounts, the GSCRAN Climate Action Bulletin, and GSCRAN Press. These platforms will publish student research, project stories, educational materials, opportunities, organisational updates, and examples of community climate action.
A major strategic priority is the development and piloting of the GSCRAN Climate Action Project Curriculum. This curriculum will serve as the network’s core educational programme and will guide students through the stages of learning, questioning, investigation, project design, implementation, and evaluation.
Students will also be prepared for a capstone-based GSCRAN Regional Dialogue, where they can present their climate action projects to educators, researchers, community representatives, and fellow students. These projects may be evaluated, discussed, refined, and prepared for wider implementation.
Over time, GSCRAN aims to develop Regional Dialogues into GSCRAN Regional Summits and, eventually, a global community of practice connecting student climate researchers and action leaders across countries.
Global Secretariat
The GSCRAN Global Secretariat provides strategic guidance, regional coordination, programme development, and professional support to the network.
Joshua Vidal
Executive Adviser and Founder of GSCRAN
Shahnaaz Ojha
Acting Regional Director of GSCRAN-Global
Geoff Wood
Co-Director of GSCRAN-Oceania
GSCRAN Student Council 2026
Student leadership is central to GSCRAN. Members of the Student Council contribute to communications, research, regional development, programme planning, and the representation of young people within the network.
President
Pamilerin Adewoye
Nigeria
Vice Presidents
Freya
Indonesia
Anushka Solanki
India
Secretaries
Narmadha
India
Semilore Ademola
Nigeria
Communications Team
Olugbade Betty
Nigeria
Shiv Tejal Singh
India
Zoya Prashanth
India
Research Team
Cale
New Zealand
Okoli
Nigeria
Anvi
India
Regional Representatives
Vezia
Indonesia
Rohan
India
Vihaan
India
Matthias Meylemans
New Zealand
Building a Global Climate Action Ecosystem
GSCRAN is more than a student network. It is a growing international platform where climate education, research, youth leadership, and community engagement are brought together.
By helping students investigate local climate challenges and develop practical responses, GSCRAN creates a pathway from classroom learning to community impact. By connecting these projects across countries and regions, the network allows participants to exchange ideas, learn from different contexts, and strengthen one another’s work.
Through its chapters, curriculum, publications, Regional Dialogues, and future summits, GSCRAN seeks to build a global climate action ecosystem in which young people are recognised not only as learners, but also as researchers, collaborators, innovators, and leaders.
GSCRAN moves climate education beyond awareness—toward evidence, action, evaluation, and lasting community change.
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