Six of Mock COP’s current Campaign Coordinators and a couple of SOS-UK’s Education Team are attending the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP27. They are co-hosting events, co-organising and co-running the Children and Youth Pavilion, joining panel discussions and engaging policy makers with the Mock COP treaty. Many of these events are available to watch livestream. Here are the events…
Here are a few of the COP-related features currently found on UnHerd. COP27: five things to expect from this year’s UN climate summit Jen Allan, Cardiff University Stronger pledges, more climate finance, and payments for loss and damage. Zero deforestation in the Amazon is now possible – here’s what needs to happen Rachael Garrett, University…
To whom it may concern … Dear COP27 delegate or observer, We’re writing to you as representatives of the UK Schools Sustainability Network – a network of students, alumni, educators and school staff from across the UK – to pass on our general and UK-specific asks for COP27 in the hope that you can voice…
In 2021, the UK Schools Sustainability Network took over 20 teenagers from across the UK to COP26. As this isn’t feasible this year, it is hoping that anyone heading to Egypt – or who has contacts there – can pass on the UKSSN’s ‘asks’ of COP27 in general and of the UK delegation. These are set out in…
Friendly Fungi – Zara Hussan, who’s 14, and goes to Plashet School in London’s East Ham, has won the 2022 Association of British Science Writers (ABSW) Young Science Writer of the Year award. This competition invites 14 to 16 year olds to submit an 800-word essay and it is supported by BBC News, the Royal Institution and DeepMind. It’s designed to…
Elephant Times and ~Tide are organising a series of webinars throughout November. here are the details: school initiatives? 6.30 Tuesday 15th November Tim Brighouse, Mick Waters and people in school leadership roles, including those from Bosworth Academy – Leicestershire, Barrowford Primary – Lancashire, and Windsor Academy – West Midlands, will start the conversation. What we can learn…
British Wildlife has featured book reviews since the very first magazine back in 1989, and every review included in issues since 2018 is available to read on the British Wildlife website. These reviews provide in-depth critiques of important new titles in natural history publishing, from nature-writing bestsellers to technical identification handbooks. They are all authored by experts in…
Here we feature some of the Climate Change Education Events at the forthcoming United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP27) which takes place at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt from 6-18 November. UNESCO says that the complexities of climate change require a holistic approach, the sort that UNESCO provides though its longstanding expertise combining science, education, culture, and communication and information.…
DfE Changes – The latest government renewal has led to more changes at the DfE. The new team can be seen here. Some old faces are welcomed back (Nick Gibb, for example) and there are new appointees (Robert Halfon, for example, who used to chair the Commons education select committee). There is a renewed emphasis on skills and talk of…
RCE Scotland is Scotland’s Regional Centre of Expertise on Education for Sustainable Development and part of a global network of RCEs which allows regions and countries to share and learn from each other, and to establish or strengthen international partnerships. It is part of the Moray House School of Education campus in Edinburgh. It launched in November…