Education: A Powerful Tool For Combatting Climate Change. A Guide For Education Unions And Educators
This guide aims to provide EI member organisations with a tool for exploring the principal questions, issues and challenges arising from the climate crisis and how unions can respond.
The ability of education to inspire, engage and empower people as well as inform people of the climate emergency, including its causes and impacts, are clearly acknowledged in international climate agreements.
However, this recognition must be translated into action plans and policies: we must ensure that climate change education is incorporated into school curricula, teaching and learning materials, and teacher training.
Teachers are change agents and can be at the forefront of the fight against climate change but they have to have the means to do so.
