Only 53% of the curricula around the world make references to climate change.
Unesco warned this Tuesday that only 53% of study plans around the world make references to climate change and those that do give it a “very low priority.”
These data have been obtained in a survey carried out by the organization in one hundred countries, in which 40% of the teachers surveyed have stated that they do not feel “safe” when teaching about climate change, and only a third feel empowered to explain the effects of this phenomenon in your region or locality.
Of the 58,000 teachers surveyed by UNESCO, 30% said they were not “familiar with the right pedagogies”, and more than a quarter felt that some approaches to teaching about climate were not suitable for online teaching, reported the organization in a statement.
The climate crisis is already a “global reality” and the solution is through education, warned the general director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), Audrey Azoulay.
In this sense, he stressed the importance of students understanding this climate change, as well as the need for teachers to be trained to teach about it, which is why he asks the states to mobilize.
Given the results of the survey, Unesco decided to organize, together with the co-chairs of COP26, the United Kingdom and Italy, the first joint meeting of ministers of the Environment and Education, “Together for tomorrow: education and climate action”.
This will take place on November 5 in Glasgow in the context of COP26, within the Youth4Climate education session organized by Unesco and the Italian Ministry of Education. There the UN organization will underline the need for collaboration between the education and environment sectors. (I)
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