Last week, the annual climate change conference (COP26) was postponed due to COVID-19. Despite our disappointment, we understand that postponing COP26 was a necessary move;
After a short break to allow members time to cope with the current crisis, Teach the Future is continuing to onboard new student volunteers, plan, and work digitally to build capacity so we will be ready when the time comes to re-engage the government.
Given the terrible events happening across the UK and the world, caused by the pandemic, we just wanted to let you know we have all temporarily stepped back from Teach the Future so we can focus on supporting people in need of help.
As many of you will know, yesterday was the day that Zamzam was planning to meet Gavin Williamson MP, the Secretary of State for Education, to make our case for an English climate emergency education plan, and to ask him for his support.
Over the past month, we have been overwhelmed by the number of organisations contacting us in support of Teach the Future and sharing wonderful messages for Teach the Future. Here are just a few of those messages.
The youth-led Teach the Future campaign network in Britain is demanding a new U.K. law that would instruct all schools to teach climate issues.
On 26 February 2020 I, and forty-six AMAZING students, aged 13 to 26, ran a remarkable event in Parliament to engage our parliamentarians in Teach the Future.
To protect the planet's future we need to think critically about the past
In Britain, the youth-led Teach the Future campaign network is demanding a new UK law that would instruct all schools to teach climate issues
We are excited to announce the British Youth Council’s support for Teach the Future, a campaign to reform the education system to reflect the severity of the climate crisis and ecological emergency.
I believe that climate and environmental teaching is a vital part of a child’s education. But our education system is not giving students a real understanding of the climate emergency or environmental issues.
Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining support from MPs.