One in three women under 30 involved in environmental groups are so worried about climate change and the future of the planet they are reconsidering having kids, according to a new survey.

The survey focused on women’s views on climate change ahead of this year’s federal election, and found nine out of ten of them were "extremely concerned" about the issue.

For women between 30 and 39 years, 22 per cent said they were reconsidering having children or more children because of climate change.

Over 6,500 women were quizzed for the survey, which was conducted by The Australian Conservation Foundation and 1 Million Women.

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28-year-old Felicity Lochhead, who studies sustainability at university, says climate change is a major factor in her thinking about the future, and it’s the same for having kids.

“If I don’t take it [climate change] into account for that big decision, but I’m taking it into account for all these little decision in my life… it doesn’t make sense if I ignore it,” she told Hack.

“What I’m concerned about is that it’s beyond an environmental issue… it swells into those spheres of economic issues and social issues as well.”

Last year, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or the IPCC, warned the world has 12 years to act to avoid the catastrophic impacts of climate change.

Even if warming was stopped at 2 degrees above pre-industrial levels, the world will still be facing more extreme weather events - more bushfires, more droughts and floods, rising sea levels, and the loss of almost all the world’s coral reefs.

All this would happen in your children’s lifetime.

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21-year-old Mariah Appleby’s decision not to have kids is two-fold.

Firstly, she’s concerned about the future they will face without us addressing climate change.

Bringing a new human into this world, their future might not be guaranteed because of climate change and everything that’s happening.”

But she also made the decision not to have kids because of the carbon impact of having a kid and bringing another person onto the planet.

“The planet can’t sustain that many people we have now, and so bringing in more people is even more unsustainable,” she told Hack.

But her mum’s not a fan of the decision.

“My mum really wants grandkids but I’m like ‘sorry you’re not having any.’”

The Australian Conservation Foundation survey focused on women as research shows women will be disproportionately affected by climate change, and that Australian women are more likely than men to recognise climate change.

In Hack’s What’s Up In Your World survey of 11,000 Australians aged 18-29, women were doing more than men to help the environment.

And women were more likely to feel negative about the earth’s future: 73 per cent of females were slightly or extremely negative about it, compared to 56 per cent of men.

In today’s survey, only 2.8 per cent of women said they hadn’t been impacted in any way by climate change.