EDUCATION

Meets Capacity

Actions To Achieve This Level

Legal Framework

Climate strategies. NDCs, NAPs, and other climate strategies include time bound provision for climate change education or education for sustainable development.

Participatory Learning Strategy/Action Plan. Development of Action Plan for the implementation of objectives and measures to scale up climate change and ESD in all areas and at all levels of the education system. Whole-school approach. Climate action and sustainable development matters are integrated into every aspect of school life, not only curriculum, but also school leadership, management, governance, infrastructure, decision making, and extracurricular activities.

Organizational Actions

Inclusion. Encourage learner leadership bodies participation in school governance, including matters of greening the education system.

Capacity building. Encourage learner participation in the simulation of negotiation and/or diplomatic processes or procedures.

Action-based learning. Facilitate, through a partnership model, training opportunities to learners in green career pathways (clean energy, environmental engineering, public health, sustainable agriculture, emergency management, among others) to prepare them to enter high-quality green jobs.

Civic education. Include civic instruction as part climate learning (i.e discussion of current political events in the classroom, political system understanding).

Just Transition. Develop climate-focused degree programmes.