Schools Climate Action

Climate·12 December 2022

How poetry can help address the climate crisis

I want to leap up at the three-nation parley In Whitehorse, Yukon, to warn them the radionuclides absorbed from the lichen they live on may kill them if they don’t drown in droves in crossings flooded out by hydroelectric stations, or…

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Charities·20 November 2021

United Nations: World Children's Day

Students at the “25 de Junho” School, located in Beira, Mozambique.

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Climate·1 May 2021

Young reporters take on climate action from their classrooms

YRE gives students between 12 and 18 year old the opportunity to lean more about sustainable develpment issues and be heard through a journalism based on solutions. (Credit: Foundation for Environmental Education)

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Climate·15 November 2024

Earth Day: Teachers from every corner of the world call for quality climate change education for all

Representing 32.5 million teachers and education support personnel worldwide, Education International launches worldwide campaign April 21st to ensure that climate education becomes as fundamental as teaching reading and writing.

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Climate·10 November 2020

Youth Activists Are Holding Their Own Climate Summit

LONDON, Nov 9 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Earlier in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic forced a year's delay to planned UN climate talks in Glasgow — originally set to start on Monday — young climate activists chafed that no innovative…

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United Nations·11 October 2023

Young people take action for global change

The UN has been engaging with young people to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges since 1999. Yet 2020 might be the year their contribution is needed most, as the world is reeling from the disruption caused by COVID-19.…

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Climate·15 August 2020

Project Everyone - The Sustainable Development Goals

Project Everyone seeks to put the power of communications behind the Sustainable Development Goals, also known as the Global Goals.

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Dwelling·31 July 2020

Atlas of the Future: Educate to regenerate - Regeneration Academy

Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look up and are greeted by an arid environment, rocky soil, sparse vegetation and the very slight movement of…

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Climate·26 June 2020

The Elders: Finding Humanity Podcast

Photo: The Elders / Ralph Alswang; Columbia University / Eileen Barroso)

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Climate·6 October 2019

Photos: What the youth climate strike looks like around the world

Hundreds of people marched from District six to Parliament during a Global Climate strike in CapeTown, South Africa, on September 20, 2019.Brenton Geach/Gallo Images via Getty Images

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Climate·24 September 2019

Greta Thunberg blasts world leaders in emotional speech at U.N. climate summit

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg on Monday opened the United Nations Climate Action Summit with an angry condemnation of world leaders for failing to take strong measures to combat climate change.

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Global Crises·21 September 2019

Climate change is morally wrong. It is time for a carbon abolition movement

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Climate·18 September 2019

Greta Thunberg: ‘We are ignoring natural climate solutions’

Greta Thunberg and George Monbiot make short film on climate crisis – video

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Arts And Sustainable Ecology·16 September 2019

How Teen Climate Activist Greta Thunberg Inspired the Art World

Climate change activist Greta Thunberg. Photo by Finnba

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New Museum·21 October 2019

World's Largest Lesson - Project Everyone

World’s Largest Lesson is an on-going initiative from Project Everyone delivered in partnership with UNICEF and many other organisations to bring the Global Goals to children across the world.

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New Museum·19 July 2019

‘Hard Truths to Face’: Tate Declares ‘Climate Emergency’

Olafur Eliasson, The Weather Project , Tate Modern, London, 2003. Courtesy: Getty Images, Photofusion/UIG

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United Nations·14 June 2019

UN: Shining a light on sustainable power

Hauwa's Gogla lamp helps her cook and carry out other chores around her home, and it helps her children study.

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Arts & Culture·17 September 2019

There’s a Flood of Climate Change-Related Art at the Venice Biennale.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg makes a speech in Rome in April 2019. Photo Antonio Masiello/Getty Images.

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Education·23 April 2019

It's time for nations to unite around an International Green New Deal

The stakes of the international Green New Deal are not merely environmental.’ Photograph: Craig Easton/Getty Images/Cultura RF Several countries have proposed their own versions of a Green New Deal, but climate change knows no borders. We need a global response n times of crisis and catastrophe, chi

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Economics·16 April 2019

Mark Carney tells global banks they cannot ignore climate change dangers

Mark Carney arriving for IMF and World Bank meetings in Washington earlier this month. Photograph: James Lawler Duggan/Reuters

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New Museum·17 September 2019

ART-2030 CONNECTING ART AND THE UN GLOBAL GOALS

ART 2030 works with art as the key to achieve the UN Global Goals by opening people's hearts, minds and imagination - to inspire action for a healthy and sustainable future.

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Climate·16 April 2019

Greta Thunberg TEDxStockholm

Greta Thunberg realised at a young age the lapse in what several climate experts were saying and in the actions that were being taken in society. The difference was so drastic in her opinion that she decided to take matters into her own…

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Education·27 August 2019

School Strike 4 Climate Action NZ

We are school students aged 8-18 from cities and towns across New Zealand. Most of us have never met before but are united by our concern about our planet.

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New Museum·15 February 2019

A personal and professional perspective on the school ‘climate strike’

At 11 o’clock this morning thousands of school students in the UK walked out of their lessons to demand increased action on climate change.

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Education·14 February 2019

'The beginning of great change': Greta Thunberg hails school climate strikes

Greta Thunberg: ‘We are in the middle of the biggest crisis in human history and basically nothing is being done to prevent it.’ Photograph: Arnd Wiegmann/Reuters The 16-year-old’s lone protest last summer has morphed into a powerful global movement challenging politicians to act Greta Thunberg is h

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Climate·13 February 2019

In the Vast Beauty of the Coachella Valley, Desert X Artists Emphasize the Perils of Climate Change

Superflex, Dive-In (2019) at Desert X. Photo by Lance Gerber.

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Uncategorized·8 January 2019

Let a billion trees bloom: Can a great green wall of trees stop China’s spreading desert?

Volunteers and students plant trees and check on the green wall throughout the year. Growing a ‘great wall’ of trees may stop the Kubuqi desert from spreading. (Moon Lai)

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Sustainability·8 January 2019

Growing a World Wonder - Great Green Wall

Spanning the entire width of Africa – nearly 8,000km from Dakar to Djibouti – a Great Green Wall is planned to defend land from the winds and sand of the Sahara. The band of trees is designed to halt the advance of the desert and create a…

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New Museum·8 January 2019

Bee inspired: why Oslo has put ecological riches at the heart of the city

Kristina Bjureke, the chief botanist at the natural history museum in Oslo, examines a flowering plant with horticulturalist Tor Mjaaland. Bjureke wrote the plant management plan for city’s hay meadow campaign. Photograph: Jonathan Watts…

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United Nations·8 January 2019

United Nations: Sustainable Development Knowledge Platform

Preamble This Agenda is a plan of action for people, planet and prosperity. It also seeks to strengthen universal peace in larger freedom. We recognise that eradicating poverty in all its forms and dimensions, including extreme poverty, is…

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Charities·7 January 2019

Long-Term Development | Oxfam International

Around the globe, we work to find practical, innovative ways for people to lift themselves out of poverty and thrive. By supporting schools, to helping farmers sell their crops for a fair price, to improving access to people with HIV/AIDS…

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Sustainability·3 January 2019

Solar-powered ambulance to save lives in Bangladesh

The solar three-wheeled ambulance can run entirely on solar power and is perfect for Bangladesh’s many rural areas without adequate services.

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