Transcript Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development (CCESD

UNESCO’s
Climate Change Education
for Sustainable Development
Programme
Climate change and education
• Climate change (CC) = one of the greatest threats to
sustainable development
• CC impacts make it harder to deliver quality education
and keep learners safe
• Climate Change Education is a powerful tool to help
people act on climate change. It:
– helps learners understand the causes and consequences of CC
– prepares students to live with the impacts of CC
– empowers students to take action on CC causes
Overall objective
of CCESD programme
support the capacities of education policy
makers and teacher educators to act on
climate change
Programme components
• Regional consultations
Organisation of two regional expert meetings in Africa
& SIDS to develop regional recommendations on
adapting education systems to the impact of climate
change
• Country programmes
Capacity building activities for policy makers and
teacher educators
• Development of Guidelines on Climate Change
Education
Current country programmes
Guyana
Tuvalu
Mauritius
South Africa
Programme components
1)
National needs assessment survey
2)
Adaptation of capacity-building materials to country
specific needs
3)
Organisation of capacity building activities for
policy makers, curriculum development specialists
and teacher educators
4)
Monitoring and evaluation
5)
Development of a country case study
Capacity building materials:
Climate Change in the Classroom: UNESCO Course for Secondary
Teachers on Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development
is now ONLINE
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