Education and climate change: how to develop skills for climate action at school age?

This note identifies the challenges that climate change imposes on education systems, including how ready students are to cope with climate change, the level of resilience of education systems, and climate sustainability strategies in the provision of education services. It continues with a conceptual framework on the value education adds to the climate change agenda. And finally, it presents actions to foster the development of knowledge, values and capacity for climate action, as well as skills for green jobs during school age, strategies to increase the resilience of the education system to climate change and options to reduce GHG emissions in the educational service.

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Main Author: Inter-American Development Bank
Other Authors: María Soledad Bos
Language:English
Published: Inter-American Development Bank
Subjects:Climate Change, Skills, Education Management, Educational Institution, Education, Children, Knowledge, Resilience, Learning, Teacher, PISA Test, Green Job, School Motivation, Educational Service, I21 - Analysis of Education, I25 - Education and Economic Development, I28 - Government Policy, I29 - Education and Research Institutions: Other, Q01 - Sustainable Development, Q54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming, Environmental education-Latin America;sustainable development,
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004917
https://publications.iadb.org/en/education-and-climate-change-how-develop-skills-climate-action-school-age
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