Education is a key contributor to climate action. Education reshapes behaviour, develops skills and fuels innovation – everything we need to combat the greatest crisis facing humanity. Better educated people are more resilient and adaptable, better equipped to create and work in green jobs, and are critical to solutions.

However, education is massively overlooked in the climate agenda. Almost no climate finance goes to education. Channeling more climate finance into education could significantly support climate change mitigation and adaptation.

Climate change is also a huge threat to education. Millions of young people face lost days of learning due to climate-related events. In low-income countries, the situation is worse. If this lost learning is not compensated, it will negatively affect their future earnings and productivity. It will also lead to great inequality within and between countries.

Governments can act now to adapt education systems to climate change. (More on worldbank.org)