from UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Published on 12 Dec 2019 —View Original
At a time when students across the world are skipping school to raise awareness around the climate emergency and protest to ensure concrete action for our planet and their future, UNESCO aims to make education a more central and visible part of the international response to climate change, and to ensure it is effectively applied.
Why is education so central to shape the way we address the challenges climate change poses?
Responding to climate change today encompasses two things:
- Reducing our emissions and stabilizing the levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere (we call this climate change ‘mitigation’);
- Adjusting to the actual and expected climate (which is referred to as ‘adaptation’).