The UN Conference of the Parties (COP27) has been in action since 6 November and continues until 18 November. The complexities of climate change require a holistic approach, which UNESCO provides though its longstanding expertise combining science, education, culture, and communication and information. Today, from 4pm-5:30pm (Egypt time) UNESCO will organize a special ministerial session: Youth demand…
Today – November 10th – is Youth and Future Generations Day at COP27. This is a stand alone event this year. There are seven 7 parts to it bringing together policy makers, youth representatives, experts, and advocates. The full programme is here. There’s a Youth-led Climate Forum, Intergenerational Policy Dialogues on Adaptation, Resilience and Loss and Damage, and…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
The Fall edition of Canada’s Green Teacher magazine (Vol 133) has now been published. There are two freely available articles: Don’t Worry; BEE Happy by Frank GlewAn outdoor honey bee simulation game Finding Ecohappiness in the Classroom by Sandi Schwartz Nature-related mindfulness tools to help students manage stress …………………………………………………… Other articles (full text available only to subscribers…
The University of Bath runs Zoom seminars every fortnight during term time. These are organised by the Institute for Sustainable Energy and the Environment – I-SEE. They are all recorded and available to view after the event. The next seminars are: 18 October Professor Kimberley Nicholas, Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies Facing Climate Change…
Neil Kitching asks: Why has the cost of energy for our homes gone up so much? Why has an increase in the price of natural gas affected the cost of electricity? He says: welcome to the wonderful world of energy economics, which he tries to explain as simply as he can. Neil has written for…