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Children are the key players who must be taken into consideration when creating climate change policies.
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limate change mitigation efforts often play around adopting renewable energy sources such as solar and wind or transforming cities to utilize more sustainable transportation, such as electric vehicles or biofuels. Unfortunately, the mitigation strategy of a quality education experience is rarely discussed.
It is indisputable that education contributes significantly to the long-term solution for climate change mitigation. To assess climate threats, develop innovative solutions and implement them, we require knowledge, skills, and awareness from different levels of society --- children, adolescents, researchers or government officials.
Intergovernmental organizations, such as UNESCO and ASEAN, have long paid attention to this matter. Initiatives were created to empower learners of all ages and segments of societies with the knowledge and attitudes to address the interconnected global challenges of climate change.
UNESCO has embedded climate change education as part of the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) program UNESCO emphasizes the importance of persuading the global community to adopt climate change education to guarantee concrete and practical measures for a sustainable future.
During the UN Alliance’s Climate Education Training event in Germany in June 2015, Christiana Figueres, the then-executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, explained the purpose of the dialogue was to implement the climate change issue into education and training programs globally to bring people together and enable them to be part of the solution.
“It is not only about studying climate change but also about understanding it. It is critical to include it in curriculum, but it needs to be embedded in the DNA of today’s very education concept. It is not just another course; it is about how everything else we study or do is affected by climate change. It is about understanding the transformation to be able to act on it,” Figueres said.
Meanwhile, through The ASEAN Work Plan on Education 2016 – 2020, ASEAN had its way of strengthening collaboration between education and other sectors related to sustainable development, complementing the objectives of UNESCO’s Education for Sustainable Development.
