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A Whole School Approach to Climate Education

On this page you can find tools, frameworks, and guides on a ‘whole school approach’ to climate education, including guides on how to include climate action in school governance and frameworks for developing climate-smart education systems.

Tools, frameworks, and guides

  • Getting Climate-ready - a guide for schools on climate action

    A guide by UNESCO on how to include climate action in school governance, teaching and learning, campus and facility management, and partnerships with the community.

  • Gender Transformative Education Guidance Note

    A conceptual framework for integrating gender transformative education in programming, focusing on consciousness raising, access and resources, social norm change and policy, legislation and institutional change.

  • Toward Climate-Smart Education Systems: A 7-dimension framework for action

    A comprehensive guide designed to offer a concrete action plan. By providing a roadmap for policymakers, educators, and other stakeholders, the framework aims to support the development of effective, climate-smart education systems that can prepare learners to tackle the challenges of a changing world.

  • Rethinking Education in the Context of Climate Change: Leverage Points for Transformative Change

    This OECD working paper explores ways to rethink educational approaches in the context of climate change, focusing primarily on school education, while exploring links to other levels of education. It looks specifically at strategies to restructure foundational science education and cross-curricular learning, zooms in on the potential of place-based approaches in empowering learners for action, and concludes by identifying policy levers to increase education system resilience.