Teaching carbon literacy in the fight against climate change

Countries must act now to address climate change, and collaborative approaches are needed that connect citizens with policymakers to create sustainable solutions. The Paris Agreement states that countries should "reach the global maximum of greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible" and "then undertake rapid reductions in accordance with the best available scientific knowledge".

To this end, Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), a member institution of UNAI in the UK, has partnered with the Carbon Literacy Project to promote an economy based on low-carbon energy sources with minimal emissions of greenhouse gases, especially carbon dioxide.

The partnership seeks to galvanize a wide range of stakeholders to create a low-carbon culture by making climate change education accessible to everyone. MMU is pioneering carbon literacy in higher education as one of the first universities in the world to help students become carbon literate through its innovative carbon literacy training model for staff and students (CL4SS) in equal measure. (More on www.un.org)