It has been shown that people are passive when it comes to political participation in the climate issue. This is despite the fact that the issues related to climate change are growing. Students have been pointed out as a group especially likely to be engaged in the issue but still we haven´t quite seen an emergence of climate movements among students. By interviewing Swedish students, this study sought to reach a better understanding of why it is so. With a theoretical starting position in the models of political participation; Civic Voluntarism Model and Climate Passivity Model the study maps out the explanations of why students are passive in the climate issue. The result of the study shows that there are several different reasons why students choose to be passive. The reasons are based mainly on the difficulty for the students to identify themselves with the issue, problems related to political efficacy and by norms that seem to surround the climate issue.