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Climate Change Education
- What are the current trends and innovations in climate change education research and practice?
The article presents the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches in CC education together with the place-based and culturally relevant pedagogies. It emphasizes on the digital and online learning opportunities with a focus on systems thinking and futures thinking skills. The material discusses as well the evaluation and assessment methods
Learn more at: https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/what-current-trends-innovations-climate
- How can you effectively promote climate change education and awareness?
The article presents useful information about the approaches a tutor could use to effectively promote climate change and awareness through education. It emphasizes on the essential educator’s skills that guarantee the process success, such as ‘know your audience’, ‘use facts and stories’, ‘focus on solutions and actions’, ‘engage and interact, be positive and optimistic’.
Learn more at: https://www.linkedin.com/advice/0/how-can-you-effectively-promote-climate?trk=cq
- D. Newsome, K. B. Newsome & S. A. Miller (2023) Teaching, Learning, and Climate Change: Anticipated Impacts and Mitigation Strategies for Educators. Behaviour and Social Issues.
Providing an efficient and effective education to the world’s youth is a catalyst for the innovations that future generations of skilled professionals will use to combat climate change. Educational settings are also crucial venues for raising social awareness about anthropogenic climate change to undermine the complacency and denialism that have stagnated the global response to this crisis thus far. This paper incorporates suggestions from climate scientists and learning scientists about how to change how we teach, where we teach, and what we teach to ensure teaching enterprises survive and thrive in the face of a changing climate.
Learn more at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42822-023-00129-2
- O. Kelly, S. Illingworth, F. Butera, V. Dawson, P. White, M. Blaise, P. Martens et al. (2022) Education in a warming world: Trends, opportunities and pitfalls for institutes of higher education
This paper highlights some trends, opportunities, and pitfalls to HEI efforts to respond to the socio-ecological sustainability crises. It discusses the transdisciplinary approach to sustainability research and the endeavour to identify and transform practices to achieve a collective social resolution to sustainability challenges. Special emphasis is given to Tristan McCowan’s theoretical framework, which provides an analytical lens to understand better the complex interplay between HEI, societies, and sustainability across five modalities of HEI operations: education, knowledge production, service delivery, public debate, and campus operations.
Learn more at: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frsus.2022.920375/full
- UNISEF PROGRAMME BRIEF: Harnessing the Transformative Potential of Education for Climate Change Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience Building in Europe and Central Asia
This Brief presents the approach of UNICEF in ECA Region in supporting education systems, education stakeholders and children and adolescents in ECA to develop the policies, structures and skills to mitigate and adapt to climate change and become more resilient to the environmental challenges and natural hazards ahead.
Learn more at: https://www.unicef.org/eca/media/32381/file/Education%20for%20climate%20change%20mitigation.pdf
- Blog series: The role of education in addressing climate change
In this blog series, experts and thought leaders present their views on how essential education is to addressing climate change.
Learn more at: https://www.globalpartnership.org/blog/blog-series-role-education-addressing-climate-change
- Leal Filho, W., Sima, M., Sharifi, A. et al.(2021). Handling climate change education at universities: an overview. Environ Sci Eur 33, 109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-021-00552-5
Universities globally are increasingly recognizing their responsibility to prepare students and society to actively contribute to the mitigation of and adaptation to climate change. This role sees universities adopting and promoting carbon neutral goals and practices. Situated within this broader context, contemporary higher education (HE) providers progressively pursue a dual strategy. First, universities are aiming to become “carbon neutral” institutions by adopting low-carbon operational practices. Second, universities are developing curricula and pedagogical approaches to educate students (and by extension society) about the imperatives of carbon neutrality and climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Learn more at: https://enveurope.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s12302-021-00552-5#Abs1
- Leal Filho, W., Weissenberger, S., Luetz, J.M. et al. (2023). Towards a greater engagement of universities in addressing climate change challenges. Sci Rep 13, 19030. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-45866-x
This paper makes a review of the literature and the use of case studies, which outline the importance of university engagement in climate change and describe its main features. It identifies the fact that climate change coverage in university programmes is not as wide as one could expect. Based on the findings, the paper lists the challenges associated with the inclusion of climate change in university programmes. Finally, it describes some of the measures which may be deployed to maximise the contribution of HE towards handling the challenges associated with a changing climate.
Learn more at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-45866-x#Abs1
- A. Anderson Climate Change Education for Mitigation and Adaptation (2012) SAGE Publications Vol 6(2): 191–206; 10.1177/0973408212475199
This article makes the case for the education sector an untapped opportunity to combat climate change. It sets forth a definition of Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development that is comprehensive and multidisciplinary and asserts that it must not only include relevant content knowledge on climate change, environmental and social issues, disaster risk reduction, and sustainable consumption and lifestyles, but also a focus on the institutional environment in which that content is learned to ensure that schools and education systems themselves are climate-proofed and resilient as well as sustainable and green.
Learn more at: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=5e15d85aee696dc275e49947c2faf1341f08b642
- UNESCO2021 GEM Report Climate change education aims to equip populations to cope with and mitigate the effects of climate change
Climate change education (CCE) can be formal, non-formal or informal, multidisciplinary and at every education level; it aims to help populations understand, address, mitigate and adapt to the impact of climate change. Achieving this requires developing appropriate curricula, teacher training and pedagogies. CCE encourages positive mindsets for lasting change and actions to address the causes of climate change and adopt more sustainable lifestyles.
Learn more at: https://www.education-progress.org/fr/focus/18-climatechange
- P. Vaughter (2016). Climate change education: from critical thinking to critical action. UN Institute for the advanced Study of sustainability, Policy Brief No 4
Effective policy related to climate education change requires not only a commitment to teach and learn but a commitment to act. Research has shown that a knowledge alone is insufficient for societies to change behaviour; therefore [policy makers must move beyond education systems that simply transmit knowledge to ones that promote graduates who are engaged in systemic change.
Learn more at: https://www.rcenetwork.org/portal/sites/default/files/UNU-IAS%20PB%204%20-%208FEB%20-%20for%20printing2.pdf
- Martha C. Monroe, Richard R. Plate, Annie Oxarart, Alison Bowers & Willandia A. Chaves (2017): Identifying effective climate change education strategies: a systematic review of the research, Environmental Education Research, DOI: 10.1080/13504622.2017.1360842
Increased interest in climate change education and the growing recognition of the challenges inherent to addressing this issue create an opportunity to conduct a systematic review to understand what research can contribute to our ideas about effective climate change education. An academic database, EBSCOhost, was used to identify 959 unique citation records addressing climate change education.
Learn more at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13504622.2017.1360842
- Leal Filho, W., Sima, M., Sharifi, A. et al. Handling climate change education at universities: an overview. Environ Sci Eur 33, 109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12302-021-00552-5
This paper reports on a study which aimed at identifying the extent to which matters related to climate change are addressed within the teaching and research practices at universities, with a focus on the training needs of teaching staff. It consists of a bibliometric analysis, combined with an online worldwide survey aimed at ascertaining the degree of involvement from universities in reducing their own carbon footprint, and the ways they offer training provisions on the topic.
Learn more at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12302-021-00552-5#Abs1
- Kranz, J.; Schwichow, M.; Breitenmoser, P.; Niebert, K. The (Un)political Perspective on Climate Change in Education—A Systematic Review. Sustainability 2022, 14, 4194. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14074194
The aim of this systematic literature review is to fill this gap and analyse how public-sphere actions on mitigation and adaptation are discussed in climate literacy programs in schools. Based on database searches following PRISMA guidelines 75 empirical studies that met the predefined inclusion criteria were identified. The authors show that effective mitigation and adaptation are based on public-sphere actions and thus conclude that effective climate education should discuss those public actions if it is to be effective. Hence, they propose that climate education should incorporate political literacy to educate climate-literate citizens.
Learn more at: https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/7/4194
- A. Anderson (2010) Combating Climate Change through Quality Education
The education sector offers a currently untapped opportunity to combat climate change. There is a clear education agenda in climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies, which require learning new knowledge and skills and changing behaviours in order to reduce the vulnerabilities and manage the risks of climate change. This brief reviews the current policies and actions on climate change and the barriers to engaging the education sector in the discussions on climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Learn more at: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/combating-climate-change-through-quality-education/
- UN system staff college (2022). Climate Change Education: the key to advancing climate action.
Climate Change Education (CCE) aims to foster learning and knowledge about climate change to help people develop effective climate change responses, adopt more sustainable ways of living and in turn demand greater change from society at large. It can serve as an effective tool to help depart from “business as usual” to engaging in a societal transformation.
Learn more at: https://www.unssc.org/news-and-insights/blog/climate-change-education-key-advancing-climate-action
- Molthan-Hill P. Worsfold N., Nagy G.J., Leal Filho W., Mifsud M. (2019) Climate Change Education for Universities: A conceptual framework from an international study. Journal of Cleaner Production 226:1092-1101 20 Jul 2019 DOI
The paper reveals the universities potential to play a key role in combating climate change and the range of implementation strategies chosen globally by Higher Education Institutions to address climate change education. The authors developed a conceptual framework for exploring how universities in 45 countries are embedding climate change education into their curricula and highlighted four approaches are: Piggybacking, mainstreaming, specialising and connecting (transdisciplinary). There are also practical examples that show how climate change education may be implemented across the world.
Learn more at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619311242?via%3Dihub
- P. Molthan-Hill, L. Blaj-Ward, M. Forh Mbah & T. Shapiro Ledley (2022) Climate Change Education at Universities: Relevance and Strategies for Every Discipline. In: Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation pp 3395–3457.
This chapter highlights the role of CCE within the higher education sector and offers solutions to the challenge of scaling up CCE by giving examples of how CCE has been and could be integrated into every discipline at university. It includes several disciplines that illustrate how CCE could be embedded more widely across university curricula and presents insights and approaches from the chosen disciplines that could be integrated into all disciplines in higher education and beyond. Strategies on how to integrate CCE on an institutional, national, and international level are also commented.
Learn more at: https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-030-72579-2_153
- S. J. Fahey (2018). Curriculum change and climate change: Inside outside pressures in higher education. In: Curriculum and Environmental Education Perspectives, Priorities and Challenges. Ed. A. Reid
In higher education today, institutions are facing a number of challenges–including the challenge to create future-proof graduates. Using a case study of a postgraduate climate change programme, this study illustrates the challenges addressed and resulting rewards when reforming the curriculum. Two theoretical curriculum models informed the re-imagination of the programme: objectives-based and action research following the process inquiry model.
- NIMT post The Role of Higher Education in Supporting Climate Change Solutions
This post discusses on environmental studies as a higher education discipline with emphasis on climate change awareness. It recommends useful clues onwhat higher education can and must do to support climate change mitigation actions.
Learn more at: https://www.nimt.ac.in/blog/the-role-of-higher-education-in-supporting-climate-change-solutions
Climate Change Mitigation Research
1. Climate change data
The indicators in this category examine carbon dioxide atmospheric concentrations, as well as trends in global warming, such as rising sea levels, rising temperatures and frequency of natural disasters which are key indicators to monitor climate change and its impacts on populations.
Learn more at https://climatedata.imf.org/pages/climatechange-data
2. Climate change Knowledge Portal for Development Practitioners and Policy Makers
The Climate Change Knowledge Portal (CCKP) provides global data on historical and future climate, vulnerabilities, and impacts. Explore them via Country and Watershed views. Access synthesized Country Profiles to gain deeper insights into climate risks and adaptation actions.
Learn more at: https://climateknowledgeportal.worldbank.org/
3. Database – Climate change – Eurostat – European Commission
In this database, you will find statistics on the drivers, emissions, and impacts of climate change, as well as mitigation and adaptation measures to these issues. Drivers are human activities that cause climate change. They include economic activities, such as electricity production or cutting down trees, and leisure activities such as car trips. Emissions related to climate change are emissions of greenhouse gases, which are named in this way as they trap heat in our atmosphere. Impacts are the effects of climate change on humans and the environment. Climate change mitigation refers to activities undertaken to reduce or offset GHG emissions. Climate change adaptation includes specific actions to help communities and ecosystems better cope with, or even benefit from, climate change.
Learn more at: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/climate-change/database
4. Climate Databases. Institute for Global Environmental Strategies.
Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) Climate Databases compile unique data about climate change policies and sustainable development projects, and offer in-depth insights through analytics, summary and figures. The Databases are developed and updated by IGES researchers and analysts on a regular basis. The frequency of updates depends on the level of priority of each Database in its global context.
Learn more at: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/projects/climate-databases
5. IGES GHG Emissions Database
IGES’s GHG emissions database aims to compile the latest information on GHG and CO2 emissions, as reported annually by UNFCCC Annex I countries. The data covers the period from 1990 up to two years before the submission date of the reports. This database also provides information on target compliance, in order to compare historical emission with countries’ emission reduction targets under various regimes.
Learn more at: https://www.iges.or.jp/en/pub/iges-ghg-emissions-data-0/en
6. Our world in data. CO₂ and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
How are emissions changing in each country? Is your country making progress on reducing emissions? Country profiles of 207 countries were presented in this database, which allows you to explore the statistics for every country in the world.
Learn more at: https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions
7. Video: Annual Arctic Sea Ice Minimum 1979-2022 with Area Graph
Satellites have provided a reliable tool for continuously monitoring changes in the Arctic ice since 1979. Every summer, the Arctic ice cap melts to what scientists call its “minimum” before colder weather begins to make ice cover increase. This video shows the expanse of the annual minimum Arctic sea ice for each year from 1979 through 2022, with a graph overlay.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/155/video-annual-arctic-sea-ice-minimum-1979-2022-with-area-graph/
8. Video: Global Warming from 1880 to 2022
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels. The past nine years have been the warmest years since modern recordkeeping began in 1880. This means Earth in 2022 was about 2 degrees Fahrenheit (or about 1.11 degrees Celsius) warmer than the late 19th – century average.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/139/video-global-warming-from-1880-to-2022/
9. Video: Ozone Watch 2018
Each year for the past few decades during the Southern Hemisphere spring, chemical reactions involving chlorine and bromine cause ozone in the southern polar region to be destroyed rapidly and severely. This depleted region is known as the “ozone hole.” This video shows Southern Hemisphere ozone between July 1 and December 31 for selected years between 1979 and 2018.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/186/video-ozone-watch-2018/
10. Video: Summer 2023 Record High Global Temperatures
The summer of 2023 was Earth’s hottest since global records began in 1880, according to an analysis by scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute of Space Studies (GISS) in New York. June, July, and August combined were 0.41 degrees Fahrenheit (0.23 degrees Celsius) warmer than any other summer in NASA’s record, and 2.1 degrees F (1.2 C) warmer than the average summer between 1951 and 1980. August alone was 2.2 F (1.2 C) warmer than the average. June through August is considered meteorological summer in the Northern Hemisphere. This animated map shows monthly temperature anomalies (changes from an average) from summer 1880 to summer 2023 measured with respect to NASA’s 1951-1980 baseline period.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/351/video-summer-2023-record-high-global-temperatures/
11. Methane emissions in Europe
Methane is a potent Greenhouse Gas accounting for around 10% of total EU GHG emissions. To maximize the benefits of natural gas as a partner to variable renewable energies and as a cleaner alternative to coal, our industry works to reduce methane emissions from its operations across the value chain.
12. Video: Methane Emissions in the United States
Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas contributing to climate change. While emissions are substantially lower than for carbon dioxide, the biggest driver of climate change, methane is more efficient at trapping heat on a molecule by molecule basis. As a result, understanding the sources of methane and how they can be reduced, quickly, is a major effort of policymakers and environmental managers around the world. This visualization presents methane emissions across the United States for the year 2012. It is designed to be consistent with the EPA’s 2016 Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks for the year 2012, which presents national totals for different source types. Estimates are produced using a wide range of databases at the state, county, local, and point source level.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/316/video-methane-emissions-in-the-united-states/
13. Animation: Global Sea Level Change (1992-2017)
This video presents how global sea levels have risen more than 80 millimetres (3.15 inches) over the past three decades, which is like covering the U.S. in about 4 meters (about 13 feet) of water over that period. The two main causes for this rise in seawater level are sea water expansion from ocean warming melting land-based glaciers and ice sheets.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/294/animation-global-sea-level-change-1992-2017/
14. Video: Climate Spiral (1880-2022)
How the global temperatures progressively warm and what are the main reasons for the warmer temperatures is presented in this video. It shows the monthly global temperature anomalies between the years 1888 and 2022.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral-1880-2022/
15. Video: Following atmospheric carbon dioxide
Carbon dioxide plays a significant role in trapping heat in Earth’s atmosphere. The gas is released from human activities like burning fossil fuels, and the concentration of carbon dioxide moves and changes through the seasons. Scientists can use models like this one to better understand and predict where concentrations of carbon dioxide could be especially high or low, based on activity on the ground.
Learn more at: https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/148/video-following-atmospheric-carbon-dioxide/
16. Climate Change Laws of the World
This Climate change laws database provides the full text of over 5000 laws, policies and UNFCCC submissions from every country regarding climate change. Some information concerning the evolving regulation of companies in climate change framework laws is also presented.
Learn more at: https://climate-laws.org/
17. Regulation (EU) 2021/1119 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 June 2021 establishing the framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’)
The Union is committed to stepping up efforts to tackle climate change and to delivering on the implementation of the Paris Agreement adopted under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (the ‘Paris Agreement’), guided by its principles and based on the best available scientific knowledge, in the context of the long-term temperature goal of the Paris Agreement.
Learn more about the established framework for achieving climate neutrality and amending Regulations (EC) No 401/2009 and (EU) 2018/1999 (‘European Climate Law’) at: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32021R1119
18. The European Green Deal. Striving to be the first climate-neutral continent
The European Commission has adopted a set of proposals to make the EU’s climate, energy, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. More information on the European Green Deal and the path to a climate-neutral Europe by 2050 is presented through the link below.
Learn more at: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en
19. Climate Action. 2050 long-term strategy
The EU aims to be climate-neutral by 2050 – an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions. This objective is at the heart of the European Green Deal and in line with the EU’s commitment to global climate action under the Paris Agreement.
Learn more at: https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-strategies-targets/2050-long-term-strategy_en
Climate Change Globally
- 28th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
Delegates from nearly 200 countries, leaders of business and finance, and representatives of civil society will gather in Dubai from November 30 to December 12 for the COP28 climate conference with the aim of fast-tracking the transition to a clean-energy future. COP28 is expected to stress the importance of collective action to stop climate change and the critical role of finance in the low-carbon transition.
Learn more at: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/cop28
- In visit to Antarctica, Guterres appeals for action to end ‘climate anarchy’
António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, visited Antarctica, where he saw first-hand how climate change is impacting the world’s southernmost continent, which is mostly covered in ice. Antarctica has been called the sleeping giant, but it is now being awoken by climate chaos, the UN Secretary-General has warned. He appealed for world leaders attending the COP28 climate change conference to act now to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
Learn more at: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/11/1143947
- What is Climate Change? Explore the Causes of Climate Change
This video defines climate change and explains the greenhouse effect and the role of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. While it explores the consequences of climate change on our environment – such as rising sea levels, more frequent extreme weather, and damage to our ecosystems – it also suggests both big and little changes that we can make to protect our Earth.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwMB1Dal-4
- Climate Change Debate on Oxford Union Society
Jack Woollett, the first debater, opens the case for the proposition. He emphasizes on climate change related problems but states that the West has no right to impose environmental standards on developing countries.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xmx1MG-l8I
As the second speaker in debate, Kriti Joshi opens the case for the opposition. At the end of her speech she stresses on the importance of implementation of environmental standards in national politics.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq0iua0r0KQ
- “Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change” book by Nathaniel Rich
In the book, the author provides more of the context for what did – and didn’t – happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it’s truly too late
Learn more at: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/losing-earth-decade-we-almost-stopped-climate-change
- Climate Ambition Summit
Against the backdrop of the worsening climate crisis, the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Ambition Summit aimed to showcase “first mover and doer” leaders from government, business, finance, local authorities, and civil society who came with credible actions, policies and plans – and not just pledges – to accelerate the decarbonization of the global economy and deliver climate justice.
Learn more at: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/climate-ambition-summit
- International Mountain Day, 11 December
Healthy mountain ecosystems help mitigate the impacts of climate change. International Mountain Day 2023, under the title “Restoring mountain ecosystems” is a chance to increase awareness about the relevance of mountain ecosystems and call for nature-based solutions, best practices and investments that build resilience, reduce vulnerability and increase the ability of mountains to adapt to daily threats and extreme climatic events.
Learn more at: https://www.un.org/en/observances/mountain-day
- Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2023
Asia-Pacific Climate Week 2023 takes place in Johor Bahru, hosted by the government of Malaysia, and provides a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome and opportunities realized in the region. The 2023 regional climate weeks are being held to build momentum ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 and the conclusion of the first global stocktake.
Learn more at: https://unfccc.int/APCW2023
- Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week
Latin America and Caribbean Climate Week (LACCW) is the third of four Regional Climate Weeks held in 2023 to build momentum ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 and the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake. Hosted by the government of Panama in Panama City, LACCW 2023 provides a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome, and opportunities realized in the region.
Learn more at: https://unfccc.int/LACCW2023
- Middle East and North Africa Climate Week
Middle East and North Africa Climate Week (MENA CW) is the second of four Regional Climate Weeks held in 2023 to build momentum ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 and the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake. Hosted by the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, MENA CW 2023 provides a platform for policymakers, practitioners, businesses and civil society to exchange on climate solutions, barriers to overcome, and opportunities realized in the region.
Learn more at: https://unfccc.int/MENACW2023
- Africa Climate Week
Africa Climate Week is one of four Regional Climate Weeks held in 2023 to build momentum ahead of the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 and the conclusion of the first Global Stocktake. Hosted by the government of Kenya, Africa Climate Week will be organized in parallel with the Africa Climate Summit (4-6 September), also hosted by Kenya.
Learn more at: https://unfccc.int/ACW2023
- Producing Projects & Subjects: Intersections & Ideas from Climate Adaptation for Climate Information Services – Webinar, November 30, 2023
The virtual series “Frontiers in Climate Services for Global Development Challenges” from the University of Arizona’s AIR International Programs (AIR-IP helps lead the Arizona Initiative for Resilience and International Development or AIRID), NOAA, and USAID will serve as a platform for highlighting new thinking and practices at the nexus of climate services and development. It supports the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), including the use of social, behavioral and economic sciences to shape climate services and adaptation solutions.
Learn more at: https://www.climatelinks.org/events/producing-projects-subjects-intersections-ideas-climate-adaptation-climate-information
- Livestream: On the Pathway to Decarbonize Electricity Grids: SF6 Transparency & Phase-out – Conference, December 3, 2023
In order to increase the visibility of Sulphur Hexafluoride (SF6) impacts and alternatives, the UN Climate Technology Centre and Network (CTCN) together with CTCN National Designated Entity (NDE) Germany, and the German Federal Ministry of Economic Development and Climate Action are hosting the side event ‘On the Pathway to Decarbonize Electricity Grids: SF6 Transparency and Phase-out’ at COP28.
Learn more at: https://www.climatelinks.org/events/livestream-pathway-decarbonize-electricity-grids-sf6-transparency-phase-out
- Transforming Humanitarian Assistance in the Face of Climate Crises – Conference
This conference will highlight how USAID and its partners are transforming humanitarian systems to better adapt to climate crises and to minimize loss and damage. The session will include discussions on advancing localization to reduce risk of climate related disasters in fragile, conflict and violence (FCV) affected states, and reducing barriers to access climate finance in FCV countries.
Learn more at: https://www.climatelinks.org/events/transforming-humanitarian-assistance-face-climate-crises
- Advancing Climate Change Mitigation Goals through Improved Solid Waste Management – Webinar, December 4, 2023
In recognition of the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Clean Cities, Blue Ocean program—the Agency’s flagship program to address ocean plastic pollution under the Save our Seas Initiative – invites all intrested to learn more about sustainable, climate-smart waste management practices being implemented by the program and its partners, such as disposal site remediation, improved waste collection and routing, and advancing the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle).
Learn more at: https://www.climatelinks.org/events/advancing-climate-change-mitigation-goals-through-improved-solid-waste-management
- Unlocking Sustainable Investment in Nature-based Solutions for Climate Action – 2 December 2023
In the face of escalating climate change impacts, resilient adaptation strategies are crucial. Recognizing nature-based solutions, especially ecosystem-based approaches, as pivotal for fortifying resilience, combating climatic risks, and aiding communities in adapting, this event invites participants to share collective expertise. The event will advocate for the cost-effectiveness of nature-based solutions in addressing climate resilience challenges and stress their economic benefits. It will also showcase cutting-edge adaptation practices, like paludiculture on formerly drained peatlands.
Learn more at: https://www.unep.org/gan/events/un-environment-event/unlocking-sustainable-investment-nature-based-solutions-climate-action
- Announcement of New Programmes and Expansion of the Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator, 5 December 2023
The Adaptation Fund is announcing the expansion of Adaptation Fund Climate Innovation Accelerator (AFCIA) at COP28 worth US$ 20 million, with the addition of two new partners, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the World Food Program (WFP). AFCIA has been a pioneering innovation accelerator program, which aims to ignite and accelerate innovation in climate change adaptation in developing countries, and generate evidence of effective solutions that can be scaled-up. The event will bring together high-level policy makers, industry leaders, investors, entrepreneurs, and key stakeholders to discuss how AFCIA accelerates innovation in climate adaptation.
Learn more at: https://www.unep.org/gan/events/un-environment-event/announcement-new-programmes-and-expansion-adaptation-fund-climate
- Intergenerational Action to Strengthen Climate Resilience, 17 November 2023, Malaysia
This Action Hub intergenerational dialogue aims to enhance the understanding of the needs of youth and older people in urban areas and identification of entry points for strengthening links between these groups. The dialogue will discuss key barriers in bringing generations together and highlight solutions in building inclusive urban resilience underscoring the importance of locally informed and community-driven adaptation efforts across society.
Learn more at: https://www.unep.org/gan/events/un-environment-event/intergenerational-action-strengthen-climate-resilience
- Gen Z, Millennials Stand Out for Climate Change Activism, Social Media Engagement with Issue – Report, May 26, 2021
Pew Research Center conducted a study to understand how Americans view climate, energy and environmental issues. They surveyed 13,749 U.S. adults from April 20 to 29, 2021 and included an oversample of adults ages 18 to 24 from the Ipsos Knowledge Panel. A total of 912 Generation Z adults, born after 1996, were included in the sample.
- New Jersey ghost forest exposes climate change threat
ABC News’ Ginger Zee travels to New Jersey’s Atlantic White Cedar Forest, where salt water from rising sea levels has encroached on freshwater estuaries.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xr1hJ59waY
- See what three degrees of global warming looks like
If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uynhvHZUOOo
- What is Climate Change? Explore the Causes of Climate Change
This video defines climate change and explains the greenhouse effect and the role of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere. While it explores the consequences of climate change on our environment – such as rising sea levels, more frequent extreme weather, and damage to our ecosystems – it also suggests both big and little changes that we can make to protect our Earth.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuwMB1Dal-4&t=104s
- Bill Gates on Climate: “Are We Science People or Are We the Idiots?”
At the Climate Forward event, Bill Gates shares doubts about tree planting, but is bullish about carbon capture and the promise of technological innovation. This interview was with David Gelles of The New York Times.
Learn more at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmBj-5owOLA
- Free Online Climate Change Courses
Free online courses helping to get grips with global warming and climate change. It provides a knowledge of climate change facts and the science behind what’s happening is key to being able to persuade others to rise to the challenge too. A certificate could be purchased once after passing the end-of-course assessment.
- All We Can Save – Truth, Courage, And Solutions For The Climate Crisis
The book illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States — scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race — and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society.
Learn more at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645808/all-we-can-save-by-edited-by-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-katharine-k-wilkinson/
- Global Weirdness, by Climate Central
Global Weirdness enlarges our understanding of how climate change affects our daily lives, and arms us with the incontrovertible facts we need to make informed decisions about the future of the planet, and of humankind.
Learn more at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/209517/global-weirdness-by-climate-central/
- Green Earth, by Kim Stanley Robinson
A trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change — updated and abridged into a single novel.
Learn more at: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/259085/green-earth-by-kim-stanley-robinson/
- Climate change news audiences: Analysis of news use and attitudes in eight countries
The report is based on 2022 survey presenting fresh insights into how people in eight countries – Brazil, France, Germany, India, Japan, Pakistan, the UK, and the USA – access news and information about climate change in 2023. The main objective of authors is to capture year-on-year change, if there is any, in people’s climate change news consumption patterns. Additionally, they are introducing new findings related to the issue of climate justice and the role of solution-oriented journalism, among other aspects.
Learn more at: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/climate-change-news-audiences-analysis-news-use-and-attitudes-eight-countries