Greening Curriculum Guidance: teaching and learning for climate action
“Education is a powerful tool to transform the world and drive long-long-term climate change action. This Guidance responds to the calls from young people for a holistic approach to climate change and sustainability in the curriculum. It outlines a common language on how quality climate change and sustainability can be reflected in the curriculum by setting expected learning outcomes per age group (from 5-yearolds and up to 18+ age group, including a lifelong learning approach). This is crucial for accelerating country-level action and ensuring joint monitoring of progress. The objective is to have 90 per cent of all countries include climate change in their curricula by 2030, as established by the Greening Education Partnership. This Guidance aims to support countries, schools or individual practitioners in reassessing their ongoing practices to adopt a more action-oriented, holistic, scientifically accurate, justice-driven and lifelong learning approach to climate change.”
“The Guidance is intended to:
- Provide a clear understanding of greening education and clarify the desired positive outcomes;
- Promote an understanding of the need for greening education programmes by raising awareness of relevant climate change and sustainable development issues and concerns that impact humans and the living world;
- Provide guidance on how to develop evidence-informed, age- and developmentally-appropriate curricula, teaching and learning materials and programmes that are culturally relevant and locally acceptable to assist policy-makers, educators, and curriculum developers;
- Ultimately, increase educators’ preparation and enhance institutional capacity to provide high-quality greening education.”