November 2021

I've been reading an article in Unherd from Tom Chivers on the gloom we saw at COP26. Chivers says that the predictions we hear about doom and damnation are based on something called RCP 8.5 which is a worst case scenario...

What follows is a slightly edited version of the talk I gave to the 2021 AGM of the National Association for Environmental Education [ NAEE ] on Nov 20th.  It was one of two invited presentations on the day under...

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;...

I watched the ever-downbeat and miderabilist Ms T as she wandered the streets of Glasgow, and I listened to her latest peroration to the faithful.  She clearly has nothing new to say, and seemingly nothing positive to contribute.  Indeed, she...

Did you watch the final session of COP26 on TV?  Did you see the last few seconds ambush by India (and their Chinese pals)?  The trouble with carrying out skulduggery in public is that everyone can see.  All very unsubtle....

So says the statement issued by the Co-Chairs of the Education and Environment Ministers summit at COP26 last Friday.  This was the meeting I skipped on Friday. There's a 6 point preamble (in that awful, stilted UNESCO-speak) followed by 8...

The DfE has launched its new environmental education strategy for consultation.  Actually, they called it a (draft) Sustainability & Climate Change strategy (for the education & children’s services systems).  You can read it here. There are 5 mentions of curriculum, but...

I was going to force myself to watch the UNESCO event at COP26 last Friday.  This was Together For Tomorrow: Education and Climate Action – which the advance publicity said would call "on education and environment ministers to pledge to integrate climate...

"Watch an exciting lesson on the topics of sustainability and climate change within the newly built Gen-Zero classroom, and find out how teachers and young people can help to tackle the ..." I watched the Teach the Teacher session at...

There was a climate education debate last week in parliament – in Westminster Hall.  The new minister of state for school standards spoke. You can read the full event transcript of the debate here. One thing I noticed was the focus...