Category: Climate Change

Join the Conversations for Change: Measuring climate and environmental education through a justice lens

by Rachel Wilder, Fernanda Gándara and Terra Sprague | Aug 26, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Climate Change

While environmentalists and educationalists alike recognise that education should play a valuable role in transitions toward social and planetary justice and sustainability, there is little consensus and not much discussion on how we know what or whether environmental, climate or ‘green’ education is advancing justice. Read More

Climate and environmental justice – expectations of UKFIET conference theme convenors

by Rachel Wilder and Fernanda Gándara | Feb 18, 2025 | 2025 UKFIET Conference, Climate Change

Making fast progress in climate and environmental justice is more urgent than ever. Education has not adapted quickly or boldly enough to deal with the challenges that our ecosystems face, and we are excited for the opportunity to elevate creative and meaningful solutions to a problem that otherwise will not… Read More

Carbon footprints and technology use: Measuring the environmental impact of a teacher development project in Rwanda

by Amy Lightfoot | Dec 18, 2024 | Climate Change

Programmes with a focus on supporting education systems and practitioners to become more environmentally aware are understandably on the rise. Ministries of education are reviewing their curricula to include a greater focus on our impact on the natural world – a new GCSE qualification in Natural History launched this school… Read More

The intersection of climate, disability and education: what can we learn from current scholarship?

by Camilla H. Chaudhary and Nidhi Singal | Oct 23, 2024 | Climate Change, Education and Disabilities

Climate vulnerability creates varied experiences especially across marginalised groups. Women living in poverty and refugees, for example, face greater vulnerabilities due to climate crises. Another such group is persons with disabilities. Read More

Thinking systematically about the Climate Change <> Education Nexus

by Akanksha Bapna, Nicholas Simpson and Sarah Colenbrander | Jun 5, 2024 | Climate Change

Climate change poses a significant threat to education systems around the world. It disrupts education directly through extreme weather events and environmental degradation, and indirectly through its impacts on health, food security, and migration. Read More

International Mother Earth Day

by UKFIET | Apr 22, 2024 | Climate Change

The 22 April marks the third Mother Earth Day Read More

Lots of snakes but where are the ladders? Building environment-smart learning friendly schools responsive to extreme weather

by Colin Bangay | Jan 10, 2024 | Climate Change, Learning

Anyone who has ever been in a concrete-walled, corrugated iron-rooved building in the heat of the dry season or experienced the noise of a tropical rainstorm will appreciate how this can impact on learning and teaching. Read More

Greening schools: Visible thinking routines for leveraging environmental education in Pakistan

by Razia Iram Sadik and Maham Afzal | Dec 12, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Climate Change, Learning

Green school programmes take on various forms and names worldwide, but at their core, they embrace a “whole school approach". This approach seeks to involve students, educators, and the local community to enhance the school environment and inspire students to identify and address environmental issues at the local level. Read More

Girls and climate justice education: Experience from two initiatives

by Alice Saisha, Catherine Boyce and Fernanda Gándara | Dec 6, 2023 | Climate Change, Girls' Education

Young people in rural Africa produce minimal carbon emissions, yet are on the frontline of the crisis. Their experiences of the climate crisis in their daily lives include flooding, damage to their schools, reduced productivity of smallholder plots and hunger, which affects their ability to learn. Read More

Building Climate-Smart and Resilient Education Systems: Ways to Navigating Tomorrow’s Challenges

by Amna Javed and Maham Afzal | Oct 18, 2023 | 2023 UKIFET Conference, Climate Change

In this blog, we undertake a multidimensional analysis, discussing the definitional nuances of climate-smart education, assessing its role in fostering climate literacy and resilience, and scrutinising the challenges plaguing the current educational landscape. Read More

Breaking beyond classroom walls to learn IN nature for climate justice

by Hannah Hogarth, Mary Brydon-Miller and Terra Sprague | Aug 3, 2023 | Climate Change, Learning

In this third instalment of our blog series, we hear from two more projects – one based in the UK and another running in the USA, Australia and newly expanded to the UK. These projects demonstrate ways in which environmental education can extend beyond the walls of the classroom and… Read More

Pedagogies for climate justice: Helping young people be hopeful for the future

by Priyanka Krishna, Bhawna Parmar, Claire Lee, Aminath Shiyama and Terra Sprague | Jul 19, 2023 | Climate Change

In this latest instalment of our blog series, we hear from two research projects – one based in India, the other in the Maldives and the UK – that have used pedagogical practices to help young learners respond to climate change through futures framing and cross-cultural dialogue. Read More