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 Transforming Education, Sustaining Our Future Schools hold the key not just to education but to the future of our planet.   It's time to embrace our responsibility towards our pupils and our planet by aligning with UNESCO's Greening Education Program. Green Mentors is on a mission, and we invite you to join us! Our goal?   To see 50% of schools globally achieve Green School accreditation by 2030. Let's make our schools beacons of sustainability and environmental stewardship. By opting for Green School accreditation, your institution can lead by example, integrating sustainability into education. From energy efficiency to waste reduction and incorporating green curricula, every step towards green accreditation is a step towards a brighter, more sustainable future.  Why Go Green? Foster a culture of sustainability among students. Could you reduce your school's carbon footprint?Contribute to a healthier, more resilient planet. Align with global efforts to combat climate change. Let's do it before it's too late. The time to act is now! Let every school go green and contribute to a future where education and environmental care go hand in hand.  #GreenSchools2030 #SustainableEducation #GreenMentors #UNESCO #ActNowForFuture

How Carbon Literacy shaped our Head of Development, Emma's journey to being named in edie's 30 under 30 Class of 2023 💫 "It wasn’t until I undertook Carbon Literacy training at university that I had that lightbulb moment and really ‘got it’ on climate. Although I was proactively studying climate modules as part of my degree, that one day’s training reframed everything. Climate change was no longer something merely academic, or for others, scientists or governments, to fix. It became tangible and something that I could actively influence by taking action in my personal and professional life. I realised the potential for Carbon Literacy to shift awareness and action on climate, and knew that this was what I wanted to do with my life." As well as sharing how she got to where she is and where we, as a Project, are going, Emma opens up about how she builds resilience in the face of the climate crisis. ☀️ Read more of Emma's conversation with edie ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eBYc83U2 #CarbonLiteracy #CultureChange #ClimateAction #edie30under30 #MentalHealthAwarenessMonth

 Transforming Education, Sustaining Our Future  Schools hold the key not just to education but to the future of our planet.   It's time to embrace our responsibility towards our pupils and our planet by aligning with UNESCO's Greening Education Program. Green Mentors is on a mission, and we invite you to join us! Our goal?   To see 50% of schools globally achieve Green School accreditation by 2030. Let's make our schools beacons of sustainability and environmental stewardship. By opting for Green School accreditation, your institution can lead by example, integrating sustainability into education. From energy efficiency to waste reduction and incorporating green curricula, every step towards green accreditation is a step towards a brighter, more sustainable future. Why Go Green? Foster a culture of sustainability among students. Could you reduce your school's carbon footprint?Contribute to a healthier, more resilient planet. Align with global efforts to combat climate change. Let's do it before it's too late. The time to act is now! Let every school go green and contribute to a future where education and environmental care go hand in hand.  #GreenSchools2030  #SustainableEducation #GreenMentors #UNESCO #ActNowForFuture

A new report from the organizers of #EarthDay finds that students who engage in environmental work do better in school and are likely to feel more optimistic about their futures, while developing a "green muscle memory". Read the full report [pdf]: https://lnkd.in/eCCTBcPh

🌍 Excited to share that I attended the UNESCO-UNFCCC UN Webinar Series on Climate Change Education for Social Transformation Season 3: Greening Teacher Training and Education Systems’ Capacities on the Road to COP29! 🌱 This webinar series, running from May to December 2024, is a continuation of the impactful conversations from the previous seasons. It focuses on the crucial topic of greening teacher training and enhancing education systems' capacities to deliver quality climate change education. This initiative is a part of the broader ACE Hub, launched by UNFCCC and North Rhine-Westphalia, aimed at fostering education, public awareness, training, and participation in climate action. The discussions highlight the challenges across all education levels—early childhood, primary, secondary, and tertiary—bringing together diverse perspectives from teachers, educators, young people, and policymakers. The aim is to find concrete solutions for integrating climate change and sustainability into teaching and learning, ensuring our education systems are prepared for a sustainable future. With the alarming findings from UNESCO that many national curricula lack climate change content, and a significant portion of teachers and youth feeling unprepared to address this critical issue, initiatives like the Greening Education Partnership are more important than ever. This global initiative, launched at the UN Transforming Education Summit in 2022, supports countries in integrating climate change education and action, striving to "get every learner climate-ready." The third season focuses on strengthening policy, planning, financing, and the capacities of educators and policymakers to create climate-resilient education systems. Last but not least, discussions held during the webinar are crucial for transforming education to meet the challenges of our time. #ClimateChangeEducation #Sustainability #COP29 #UNESCO #UNFCCC #EducationTransformation #GreeningEducation #ACEHub

🌍 Greening Education to Build a Climate-Ready Generation 🌍 Imagine a world where every student grows up not only aware of climate change but equipped to combat it. That's the goal of UNESCO’s Greening Curriculum Guidance—an ambitious framework to integrate climate education into classrooms worldwide. Why is this important? 🔹 Climate change affects everything: health, food, economy, biodiversity, and our very survival. Education is our tool to equip future leaders with the knowledge, values, and skills they need to take real action. 🔹 By 2030, the Greening Education Partnership aims for 90% of countries to include climate change in their national curricula, empowering youth to become agents of change. Core Insights: Age-Appropriate Learning: Clear learning outcomes for each age group (from 5-year-olds to adults) ensure everyone can actively participate in climate action. Whole-System Approach: This guidance isn’t just for schools; it integrates community, cultural, and practical contexts to make learning relevant. Holistic and Action-Oriented: With a focus on climate justice and sustainable practices, students gain the tools they need to lead a low-emission, resilient future. Want to see a greener, more climate-resilient world? 🌱 Share this post to support education that prepares every learner for the challenges ahead. #ClimateAction #GreeningCurriculum #UNESCO

Climate and Nature Action in Education https://lnkd.in/eZUZtj6h Our education system and the nurseries, schools and colleges within it play a critical role in driving action to address climate change and nature decline. By working together, the #education system can lead the way in reducing our collective carbon footprint, preparing our nurseries, schools and colleges for extreme weather events and helping children and young people connect with nature and develop the green skills the need for their future. As part of the Department for Education sustainability and climate change strategy, all education settings are expected to have a climate action plan and a sustainability lead in place by the end of 2025. Developing a climate action plan will help you work out how you work out how your organisation can make work on nature and climate fit within your existing improvement plans. To help you do this, during this academic year our organisations will be working together to offer you a wide range of free support: 🌍 https://lnkd.in/egCMptCD 🌍 https://lnkd.in/e8W2g8xW 🌍 https://lnkd.in/eSWBfMYQ 🌍 https://lnkd.in/exPXme5m Over this week, as part of Climate and Nature Action in Education, our organisations our working with education leaders and sustainability leads at nine different events in the nine education regions of England. With the support of the Association of School and College Leaders, the UK Schools Sustainability Network (UKSSN) and the Early Years Alliance, these events are supporting the first group of education leaders to work with us and work together to make their climate action plans. For those who can’t join us, please join our free Climate Ambassadors webinar for more information. https://lnkd.in/efcN6KrB We know we can’t stop there though, and we need your support to make real change happen. Help us to inspire and support others in your community to take action by sharing one of our downloadable action cards. You can share these via your website, social media or newsletter and tell us about it by using the hashtag #climatenatureed. Ask us for free advice and support using the same hashtag. We can’t wait to see the action you are taking and to make 2024/25 a new start for climate and nature action in education.

I recently participated in a UNESCO / UN Climate Change webinar series on Climate Change Education for Social Transformation. The discussions just like many other discussions underscored the critical need to integrate climate change education across all curricula and disciplines, particularly in higher education and more importantly in secondary schools. I have seen first hand the importance of this integration through our initiatives and programs at International Student Environmental Coalition in Cameroon 🇨🇲 More Importantly, I think that universities and higher education institutions should implement practical measures to promote sustainability on their campuses. These actions can inspire curiosity and foster a deeper understanding of climate change and #climateaction among students. For example, a university that installs solar panels to power a building or laboratory demonstrates energy transition in practice, allowing students to observe sustainable solutions in real-time. Similarly, implementing campus-wide recycling programs, waste separation, and urban gardens can engage students, particularly those who learn best through hands-on experiences, in sustainability and the green economy. Climate education must move beyond theoretical discussions to include practical, experiential learning. This approach will better equip students to engage with and contribute to climate action. That is how we can build a generation that will ready for the #greeneconomy North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE) The Pollination Project Foundation #climateeducation #climateaction #EE #empowerment

Climate education is the focus of Seahorse Environmental 's newsletter this month, highlighting our work with OVO Foundation and Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK). 📖You can read about it in Katie Berriman Davies's insight https://lnkd.in/ez8n9h6c and by signing up for our newsletter here https://lnkd.in/ekCQXQsK 👎🏻 The depressing part is it could be so much better. Young people deserve an education that helps them understand how society and the economy will change due to climate change and that equips them with the skills and knowledge they will need in future. They also deserve for their education to not be disrupted by crumbling and dangerous infrastructure, or overheating classrooms. 🙏🏻 In a more optimistic view, now is the opportunity to change these things, both through the Curriculum and Assessment review and by ensuring that, as school infrastructure is updated following RAAC, it is planned with future resilience and our net zero target in mind (as called for by this group of MPs https://lnkd.in/egU8AUJE). #ClimateEducation #RAAC #EnvironmentPR