Education: a driver of climate ambition

A staggering 400 million students worldwide have experienced school closures due to extreme weather since 2022, with climate change disproportionately affecting those boys and girls who are displaced or affected by conflict, violence and other humanitarian crises.

The challenge is clear, as are many of the solutions. Here are the specific measures that need to be taken.

They include concrete measures to involve children and young people in deciding their own futures and ensuring they have the means to take care of that future – which inevitably means access to quality learning, green skills and climate education. Actions can also be taken to increase funding for climate change adaptation and mitigation projects targeting sectors such as education that increase the resilience of vulnerable communities. To support these priorities and to address the impacts of the climate crisis on education, education must have a place in Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), National Adaptation Plans (NAPs) and other climate plans at local, national and international levels. (More on reliefweb.int)