LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly three quarters of British teachers say they have not had enough training to educate students about climate change, the implications of global warming and how best to confront them, a poll showed on Tuesday.
Teach the Future, a campaign formed by secondary school students who went on strike against climate change in 2019, want the topic to be taught across the curriculum.
Most teachers have not been given enough training to do it, campaigners say
Young campaigners called for the climate crisis to be covered across the whole curriculum to prepare kids for their futures
Teach the Future Wales have been busy writing amendments to the Welsh Government's new curriculum bill to make climate education a mandatory aspect of the curriculum. Unfortunately, the amendments were not passed but the process was rewarding. Yasmin Belhadj explains what we did!
The education system consistently caters for the upper classes by ignoring the issues that predominantly affect working class students. We need an education that prepares us for our futures, and is inclusive and supportive of everyone.
As we exit from the pandemic, governments will be spending trillions of pounds to aid the recovery. This provides a unique opportunity for countries to embark on a journey towards sustainability.
We’ve surveyed UK teacher attitudes to climate education so that we can better understand the problems with current climate education and the solutions needed to fix them. To celebrate our campaign reaching 10,000 petition signatures we will be publishing this research next week in an exciting online event with some of our great young activists.
Climate change may not seem as imperative and challenging to those who are fortunate not have felt it's adverse affects yet. World hunger is already a major humanitarian crisis; and will only be exasperated by climate change.
From November 1st to November 12th this year COP26, the Conference of Parties for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), will be held in Glasgow. Each country sends delegates to negotiate at the event (parties) including heads of state, climate experts and negotiators.
At the end of the ice age, peatlands formed all over Europe. The Flow Country is a vast area of about 200,000 hectares in Caithness and Sutherland in Scotland. It holds over 400,000 hectares of the blanket blog, which only forms in cold places with lots of rain, like Scotland.
This is the first blog by, drum roll please, Teach the Future Wales! Today we are introducing the campaign that our volunteers have been working on tirelessly over the last few months to set up. We have created our 4 asks that we have for the Welsh Government!