UNESCO launched two new tools – new Greening Curriculum Guidance (GCG) and new Green School Quality Standards (GSQS) – under Greening Education Partnership.
- New GCG: A practical manual providing, for the first time, a common understanding of what climate education should consist of and how countries can mainstream environmental topics across curricula, with detailed expected learning outcomes.
- New GSQS: It sets the minimum requirements on how to create a green school by promoting an action-oriented approach.
About Greening Education Partnership
- It is a global initiative comprising 80 member states and supports countries to tackle the climate crisis by harnessing the critical role of education.
- Objective: To ensure all learners acquire knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and action to tackle climate change and to promote sustainable development.
- Pillars of Green Education:
- Greening Schools: To ensure that all schools achieve green school accreditation and address climate change through their teaching, facilities and operations.
- Greening Curriculum: Integrate climate education into school curricula, technical and vocational education and training, workplace skills development etc.
- Greening Teacher Training and Education Systems' Capacities: Integration of climate education in building school capacities.
- Greening Communities: Strengthen community resilience through community learning centres and learning cities.
Education and Climate Change
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