"YES: The climate crisis has the potential to affect every aspect of our society and it is young people that will be most impacted by rising temperatures. The Green Party manifesto therefore commits to ensuring that every child can learn about the climate and biodiversity crisis at school to equip them for the challenges ahead – and I think this should include mainstreaming climate change throughout every subject. In Parliament, former Green MP Caroline Lucas has been a longstanding champion of climate education and back in 2013 tabled an early day motion to oppose the Government’s plan at that time to remove climate change from the national curriculum guidelines for key stages 1 to 3. She has also sponsored the Climate Education Bill, which will integrate teaching about climate change and sustainability throughout the curriculum in primary schools and secondary schools, and on vocational courses. If I am elected to represent Brighton Pavilion on 4th July then I would work to build on this track record and champion climate education in Parliament. The Green Party believes that climate and nature are two sides of the same coin, and so our manifesto also commits to ensure effective delivery of the new Natural History GCSE which Caroline Lucas successfully secured. "

YES: Although the climate crisis is undoubtedly frightening, the transition to a zero carbon society also means that our economy is on the brink of some really positive changes – from cleaner, cheaper renewable energy, to changes in the way that we travel and heat our homes. The Green Party believes that we need to cut emissions further and faster, which is why our manifesto commits to a Green Economic Transformation, driven by an average of £40bn public investment per year over the course of the next parliament, to fund this transition. I also believe it is important that education covers these changes in our society, and so I fully support teaching on the solutions for climate change, as well as its causes and impacts – a step which also has the potential to further empower young people.

YES: After more than a decade of funding cuts at the hands of the Conservative Government, the Green Party manifesto advocates for an increase in school funding, with an £8bn investment in schools that would include £2bn for a pay uplift for teachers. Both teachers and schools are enormously overstretched at the moment, with a review by Ofsted last year finding that workload pressures and the cost to school where significant barriers to teachers participating in professional development. I very much hope that increasing school funding will enable more teachers to undertake training opportunities and, of course, I would also hope that this would support them in teaching about the climate crisis.

YES: It is shocking that schools across the UK are literally crumbling and in desperate need of repair. The Green Party manifesto commits to ensuring that every school building is safe for children by investing £2.5bn a year to tackle the RAAC concrete scandal and provide the funding needed for schools to be well maintained and fit for purpose. Further to this, we also recognise the need to upgrade schools for the future, and so we would spend £4bn over the next five years to insulate public buildings, as part of a ten-year programme.

"YES: The Green Party is clear that education and training must be accessible and better designed to support lifelong learning, with our manifesto committing to a £3bn increase in funding for sixth-form education over the next parliamentary term, and a £12bn investment in skills and lifelong learning for further education. I absolutely support more green skills being taught in vocational education, in order to enable young people to participate in the zero carbon economy, and the Climate Education Bill backed by former Green MP Caroline Lucas, also sought to integrate climate change into vocational courses. Thousands of new jobs will be created through meeting our climate targets and it is essential that people are supported to reap the rewards of this transition. The Green Party therefore want to see investment in skills and training (including retrofitting) reaching £4bn per year, allowing workers to be prepared for the new roles they can take on. "