Youth Climate Change Mitigation Practices and Adaptation in Malacca State, Malaysia

Abstract

Climate literacy is one way to assess youth awareness about current climate change phenomena
such as El Nino or La Nin a. This article aims to build a model of climate change mitigation practices
and adaptation among youth in Malaysia, especially in the historical state of Malacca. A total of
400 youth respondents residing in the state of Malacca were selected through a si mple random
sampling process. Among the sub constructs studied are sustainable development, environmental
conservation, natural resources and effective involvement. The data were analyzed descriptively to
pair the reliability of results from Cronbach’s alp ha with confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). CFA was
used to obtain three solutions factor from SPSS 22 and AMOS 20 software. The results showed that
the Cronbach’s alpha value was at a ‘high’ classification which surpasses 0.80. Results from CFA
analysis s hown a three factor solution is appropriate and acceptable based on the suggested
indicators. Therefore, a 30 item measurement model was developed to measure the mitigation and
adaptation practices of climate change amongst youth in Malaysia. This study is significant because
few studies have been completed on connecting youth practice and adaptation in regard to
climate change it; the current study illustrates how Malaccan youth practice mitigation knowledge
in the era of climate change, and how they say t hey will adapt to the effect of climate change