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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...

What a sad reflection on the state of higher education in the UK that Kathleen Stock felt unable to continue to work at the University of Sussex after being accused of speaking the truth about biology and upholding enlightenment values.  The...

A report commissioned by the Department of Business (etc) has vanished from the government website after being posted for only a few days.  It was, the government says, "published in error" – a likely story.  The report is a review...

Here's a link to a video produced by UNDP ahead of COP26.  In it, a T-Rex lookalike addresses the UN General Assembly on the need for action on the climate.  As T-Rexs go, its behaviour is quite restrained, though why...

Here's a letter sent to the Secretary of State for Education (England) by four education unions (NEU  NASUWT  UCU  UNISON) the other day.  Two of the unions represent teachers in English schools: Dear Mr Zahawi Quality Climate Education As the Intergovernmental...

Everywhere I turn there are COP stories.  Some of these are gloom-filled news items about President X not turning up, or Prime Minister Y.  Others are about the likelihood of the commitments / promises / pledges / etc made within...

Which country's education ministry has said this in the run up to COP26? "The Department for Education is committed to sustainable development and we believe that it is vital for our schools to prepare our young people for the future....

I got this email a while back: Dear William Congratulations again on publishing your article, 25 Years on: Looking back at Environmental Education Research, in Environmental Education Research, earlier this year. It is an accomplishment to be a published author, take a...