Not just hot air : putting climate change education into practice

Abstract

Climate change presents a global challenge of a magnitude that human beings have not encountered before. Climate change has far-reaching repercussions for where people can settle, grow food, maintain infrastructure and rely on functioning ecosystems. It poses a number of interconnected challenges that go well beyond environmental boundaries and include threats to water security, rising pressures on food production, increased risks of natural disasters as well as public health challenges. This publication showcases the recent pilot experience of five countries that have initiated national Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development programmes, and offers a brief policy review of sixteen others, along with some recommendations for policy makers drawn from the pilot experiences and country reviews, as well as additional research.