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As an organisation is the aim for education to be about climate change or education for climate change? Or a comn=bination of both? That is, to inspire action either through personal behaviour change and/or pursuing a career that can have an impact. The career related programme could also have a significant role.. over 140 countries have set net zero targets which means a huge increase in the number of jobs that will ultimately (hopefully) have an impact on climate change

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Another approach that is used in schools and a variety of industries (in the UK) is Carbon Literacy. It is a really effective process that involves thinking about impacts from a personal and global perspective and could also be integrated in a variety of different ways

carbonliteracy.com

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Navigating the 1.5 Degrees Breach
Image credit: Photo by Pixabay. In 2023, the world witnessed an onslaught of extreme weather events, ranging from severe droughts and scorching heatwaves to devastating wildfires...

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Relevant climate change learning for everyone

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I have only just caught up with the recording now. A fantastic insight into the multifaceted research. I was surprised to hear that the term "climate emergency" wasn't used during the research or presentation (that I recall) While I appreciate that this could be a triggering term to use, it is widely used in the media and by international organisations such as the WEF and UN. 40 countries have declared a climate emergency since 2020 and so it is something that students would encounter in further research and applying their learning to the real world.

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1,918 jurisdictions in 34 countries have declared a climate emergency. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to over 826 million citizens, with 60 million of these living in the United Kingdom. This means in Britain around 86 per cent of the population lives in areas where the local authorities have declared a climate emergency - over 500 councils all together.
LOCAL GOVERNMENTS COUNTING
On the list below are only included jurisdictions that have passed a binding motion declaring a climate emergency. As such, the non-binding motion instigated by UK Labour, for example, is not included in this data. Typical resolutions include setting up a process to develop an action plan and report back to council within three to six months.

NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS
15 national governments have declared a climate emergency. The EU is counted as one jurisdiction in the 'governments total', but not included in the country count.

AUSTRALIA
In Australia, where the climate emergency declaration mobilisation and petition was launched in May 2016, close to 100 jurisdictions representing 9 million people - over a third of the population - have declared a climate emergency, including the government of the Australian Capital Territory, based in the capital Canberra, and South Australia's Upper House. More than 100 of the candidates in the 18 May 2019 federal election signed the Climate Emergency Declaration petition. On 2 December 2020, the federal government rejected a Climate Emergency Declaration Bill proposed by the Greens' leader Adam Bandt.

These are the overall figures, according to population statistics available via the Internet:

NATIONAL DECLARATIONS: A BIT OF HISTORY
On 29 April 2019, the first parliament in the world to declare a climate emergency at the national level was the Welsh Parliament. Some say it was Scotland, though, because on 28 April 2019, the First Minister of Scotland declared a climate emergency on behalf of her government at an annual Scottish National Party conference.

On 1 May 2019, the United Kingdom Labour Party got unanimous support for a non-binding motion in favour of a climate emergency declaration in the House of Commons, claiming Britain thereby was the first country in the world where a bipartisan parliament had declared a climate emergency.

On 3 May 2019, the Gibraltar Parliament followed, and the government of the Republic of Ireland announced their declaration on 9 May. The next day, the parliament declared a climate emergency as well.

The Parliament of Portugal declared a climate emergency on 7 June 2019 - that is, the Assembly of the Republic passed the declaration but it still requires further approval by the Council of Ministers, which hasn't happened. The Canadian House of Commons followed on 17 June 2019, and the French parliament a climate emergency on 27 June 2019. followed on 17 July 2019.

→ For more about the history, see Cedamia's

→ Cedamia's World map of climate emergency declarations

→ Map of Swedish municipalities - which visualises the status of each, including those who end up voting against declaring a climate emergency.

Similar lists
This data compilation was initiated by Philip Sutton. Various lists are being updated independently, including:
→ CEDAMIA's list in chronological order (Adelaide, Australia):
www.cedamia.org/global

→ CACE Online's list (Melbourne, Australia):
www.caceonline.org/councils-that-have-declared.html

→ ClimateEmergency.uk's news page (United Kingdom):
www.climateemergency.uk/blog/category/climate-emergency

→ The Climate Mobilization's list (USA):
City by City Campaign: The Race to Mobilize Is On

Note:
We have received questions from councillors and media about what a 'climate emergency declaration' or motion should contain, and whether there are certain criteria or guidelines to this.

For instance, can achieving net zero carbon emissions by 2050 be considered an 'emergency' response, or should the year be set as 2040, 2030 or even as ambitious as 2025?

Our call for declaring a climate emergency is not structured movement with a specific guideline and a set of criteria as such. It is an open 'movement of movements', and there are many opinions floating around about what is the best strategy.

Eventually, it is up to each individual council to make up its mind about what it wants to suggest and to implement.

Inspirational: Here's some advice and inspiration - and here's more advice and inspiration from CACE

Historical: This was the we published in the Australian newspaper on 23 June 2016:

"At the Paris climate talks, scientists and people from low-lying island states set 1.5°C of warming as a red line that must not be crossed. However, earlier this year, the global average temperature spiked past 1.6°C of warming.
The bleaching of coral reefs around the world, increasing extreme weather events, the melting of large ice sheets and recent venting of methane from thawing permafrost make it abundantly clear that the earth is already too hot.
The future of human civilisation, and the survival of the precious ecosystems on which we depend, now hang in the balance.
There must be an immediate ban on new coal and gas developments and an emergency-speed transition to zero emissions. We must begin the enormous task of safely drawing down the excess greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.
We call on the new parliament to declare a climate emergency."

This was the climate emergency declaration petition text we wrote in 2016:

Given that:
* climate impacts are already causing serious loss of life and destroying vital ecosystems
* global average temperature, atmospheric greenhouse gases, and ocean acidity are already at dangerous levels, and
* wartime economic mobilisations have proven how quickly nations can restructure their economies when facing an extreme threat

it is inexcusable to continue with climate-damaging policies that put us all in even greater peril. The Paris Agreement's 1.5°C goal is not a safe goal.

We call on all Australian federal, state, and territory parliaments and all local councils to:
* declare a climate emergency
* commit to providing maximum protection for all people, economies, species, ecosystems, and civilisations, and to fully restoring a safe climate
* mobilise the required resources and take effective action at the necessary scale and speed
* transform the economy to zero emissions and make a fair contribution to drawing down the excess carbon dioxide in the air, and
* encourage all other governments around the world to take these same actions.

We've risen to big challenges in the past when an emergency has been declared, with citizens and all sides of politics rising to the occasion and working together for the common good.

We call on the Australian government to do what is necessary now.

TV news coverage - examples
Machynlleth Town Council, Wales, United Kingdom

Vancouver City Council, Canada [Report starts at 0:52 min in the video]

Social media

Read more and follow the emergency development on Facebook

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Climate emergency declarations in 1,918 jurisdictions and local governments cover 826 million citizens - Climate Emergency Declaration

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1,918 jurisdictions in 34 countries have declared a climate emergency. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to over 826 million citizens, with 60 million of these living in the United Kingdom.

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Need to be mindful of labels like “global north” and “global south” based on a flat geopolitical map!

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Maybe this was missed in the internal guide audit. All subjects in MYP include climate change education as all unit plans must be linked to a global context one of which is globalization and sustainability and another is fairness and development. So all subjects will link to climate change at some point in any school year. Also in the MYP digital assessments one task in every subject is related to a global context so there are many examples of climate change in our examinations too which encourage discussions and evaluation of systems, perspectives and call to action.

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I’m a climate refugee - moved from one place as the heat was affecting my health. But I had the choice…many don’t! Living in the states for 20 years and reflecting on my Geography degree and education in UK on the 90’s, much of what I learned is now reality!

So what do we teach our students now? This is important…but this is happening now so knowledge yes…but problem solving and approaches to learning are the most important elements!