Youth in global environmental negotiations: The YouthEarth dataset
(2026) Data in Brief — Vol. 65 (2026)
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- The YouthEarth dataset [3] is the first dataset to present data on youth participation in the international negotiations of three international processes: the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) conferences of the parties (COPs), the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) COPs, and the sustainable development negotiations, from 1993 until 2024. Data include all instances of youth partic- ipation in these processes, as well as the categorization of youth participants according to participation format, gender, geographical origin and organizational affiliation among oth- ers. The full dataset can serve as the basis for descriptive, di- achronic, statistics on youth participation in global environ- mental politics, with, among others, the possibility to com- pare across environmental issues. The methodology of the dataset could be replicated for other research efforts to cre- ate datasets on the participation of non-state actors (beyond youth) to international negotiation processes (beyond envi- ronmental issues).
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Vergonjeanne, A., & Orsini, A. (2026). Youth in global environmental negotiations: The YouthEarth dataset. Data in Brief, 65. https://doi.org/10. (Original work published 2026)