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November 20, 2020
By saying overpopulation is causing climate change, My teacher was telling my class three things: the climate crisis is unsolvable; everyday people are to blame for climate change, and highly populated countries are the big polluters. All three of these things are wrong
November 18, 2020
We are pleased to see the PM’s announcement of a 10 point green plan, however, it does not address a critical element in the UK’s journey towards net-zero: education. Students must leave formal education with the skills and knowledge needed to understand the climate crisis and contribute to its solutions. We are disappointed this has been omitted from today’s announcements.
November 16, 2020
Both bills were organised by the Teach the Future campaign, which wants the education system to have a greater focus on the climate emergency.
November 9, 2020
There is now considerable (though by no means universal) agreement with the idea that young people in schools should have an entitlement to learn in some detail about the climate problems we face, and what they individually and collectively might do in terms of adaptation and mitigation. In what follows, NAEE Chair of Trustees, Bill Scott, explores some of the issues using material that NAEE has recently presented at conferences.
October 25, 2020
Following our meeting with John Swinney, Teach The Future Scotland sent a document to him highlighting how a lack of climate education will violate young people's human rights including but not exclusive to their education, and the necessity for sustainable education. It is incredibly important to highlight these rights as it illustrates the extreme impact the climate crisis will have and our right to learn about how these impacts will affect us.
October 12, 2020
On the 12th October 2019, I stood in a classroom full of teachers at the NEU Climate Emergency conference, a countdown clock projected on a screen behind me ran down to zero, and the Teach the Future website was launched (in reality the website had been live for a couple of days, and the countdown was somewhat staged, but that's irrelevant). What's important, is that Teach the Future is one year old today.
October 2, 2020
“Net Zero”, the idea that a community makes a zero contribution to global warming, is an elusive concept. It usually involves some sort of cheating – or, to use more diplomatic language, it involves leaving out various sources of emissions from the calculations.
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September 27, 2020
In five years’ time, every student at Sheffield University – whether they study maths, music or drama – will also need to get to grips with sustainability.
September 24, 2020
I had a little realisation earlier, that we at Teach the Future probably haven't done the best job of sharing all the really important Climate Education surveys that we have collected over the last year. To fix that problem, I've written this blog - I intend to keep updating it as we discover more research!
September 23, 2020
"Teach the Future recommends accelerated and consistent delivery of investment into the energy efficiency and carbon reduction of school buildings in the CSR and presents the argument, methodology, and costing for a zero-carbon education estate."
September 9, 2020
Six of our climate education advocates went to a call with John Swinney and Liam Cahill (responsible for Learning for Sustainability policy) where they discussed the aims of the Teach the Future campaign, its progress thus far as well as how we think the devolved government can best support systemic reform - with the much needed societal shift in accordance with climate justice.
September 8, 2020
A new survey from Erasmus+ School Education Gateway has shown that the UK is not the only country with bad climate education as Italy remains the only EU country to have made climate change education compulsory in schools across the curriculum.