Blog
February 26, 2020
tephen Morgan MP joined a parliamentary climate change event alongside students from across the country, including Portsmouth. The city MP today attended Teach the Future, a parliamentary campaign seeking to urgently reform the education system to focus further on climate change.
February 25, 2020
Quakers in Britain have joined education charities, unions and environmental NGOs in signing up to Teach the Future, a youth-led campaign to put the climate crisis at the heart of the education system.
February 25, 2020
The climate change protests that swept the world last year, kickstarted by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, generated huge amounts of coverage and showed that this generation is deeply aware of the ongoing climate crisis.
February 25, 2020
I have been frustrated by the lack of urgency in the education system. The climate crisis has made it evident that the role of education has never been more important.
February 25, 2020
Joe and Scarlett interviewed on BBC Breakfast ahead of our Parliamentary Reception
February 25, 2020
If radical action to reduce emissions isn’t taken in the next decade or so, many of today’s schoolchildren could live in a world that’s 3℃ or 4℃ hotter by the time they enter their later years. Their working lives would be defined by routine weather extremes, widespread crop failures and catastrophic sea level rise.
February 24, 2020
"It's educated people who are causing the most damage to the planet," says sixth-former Joe Brindle. Joe, 17, says schools need to put the environment at the heart of education. Ministers agree "it is vital that pupils are taught about climate change" but Joe says schools are failing to prepare them for a climate emergency.
February 21, 2020
After celebrating its 70th anniversary in 2018, I believe it is fair to say that the British Youth Council has become a well-established and respected organisation over the years...
February 20, 2020
Thanks so much to all of you that have written to your MPs for us imploring them to attend our reception in Parliament next week. We now have 50 MPs confirmed, which means we are half way to our target of 100! If you haven’t written to your MP, its not too late, here is a template email you can use.
February 18, 2020
Joe, 17, who is a sixth former at Devizes School is the leader of the school’s climate change group and is a campaigner for the UK Student Climate Network.
February 12, 2020
Like many young people, Joe Brindle, 17, is scared for the future because of the climate crisis. He is, he says, “angry about the injustice that is allowing the most vulnerable people in the world to suffer from the actions of the richest and most powerful”
February 5, 2020
Climate change should be taught in schools. That is the opinion of three quarters of respondents to a recent YouGov poll. This data certainly suggests that a majority of the UK population now considers the issue of climate change significant enough to warrant inclusion in the body of prized knowledge that constitutes the National Curriculum.