Education and climate change

Despite compelling evidence of education's impact on other development outcomes and the role it plays in developing professional capacity for sustainable development transitions, education is often absent from the strategic, political, planning and financial considerations of other sectors. The Global Education Monitoring Report is a new series of strategic documents to promote dialogue on the interrelationship of education with the other Sustainable Development Goals.

The first article in the series focuses on climate change. It begins by examining the growing impact of climate change on educational development before turning to the role of education. Education has a somewhat underappreciated contribution to the development of professional capacities for the transition to a green, circular and regenerative economy. Formal, non-formal and informal education is also generally believed to play a key role in motivating climate change mitigation and adaptation measures. (More on  unesco.org )