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  1. Climate action and literacy 29 November 2024

    Education voices | Lessons from the devastating floods in Valencia and an urgent call to Teach for the Planet

    Marc Candela

    The torrential rains and devastating floods that hit parts of Spain in October 2024, affecting more than 100 municipalities in the province of Valencia, are yet further evidence of the undeniable impact of climate change on our societies.

    Education voices | Lessons from the devastating floods in Valencia and an urgent call to Teach for the Planet
  2. Climate action and literacy 21 November 2024

    COP29: Education unions demand urgent action for climate education and a just transition

    The Education International Executive Board issued a strong call for urgent and decisive climate action in a statement to world leaders at the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29). Stressing that widespread school disruptions caused by the climate crisis put students’ right to education and teachers’ labour rights at risk,...

    COP29: Education unions demand urgent action for climate education and a just transition
  3. Climate action and literacy 21 November 2024

    Climate justice, climate education, and resilient education systems for all without delay

    Education International Statement to COP 29

    Education International is the voice and force of education and part of the international trade union movement. Education International represents over 33 million teachers and education support personnel through over 375 education unions.

    Climate justice, climate education, and resilient education systems for all without delay
  4. Climate action and literacy 16 October 2024

    New international tool supports educators in their fight against climate change

    As part of the work of the Education International (EI) Climate Network, education unionists from all over the world were consulted and gave inputs about the Greening Education Partnership , a new tool developed to support ministries of education to build climate-responsive education systems that centre teacher experience and aim...

    New international tool supports educators in their fight against climate change
  5. Climate action and literacy 1 August 2024

    Education unions redouble efforts to ensure quality climate education and a just transition for all

    Educators around the world are standing up for the planet and for their students. The Teach for the Planet campaign was in the spotlight at Education International’s 10th World Congress taking place in Buenos Aires from 26 July to 2 August. Education unionists met to exchange best practices on climate...

    Education unions redouble efforts to ensure quality climate education and a just transition for all
  6. Climate action and literacy 23 May 2024

    Southeast Asian Educators build movement for climate justice and just transition

    Southeast Asian educators convened to demand climate justice and advance a just transition at a three-day conference hosted by Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) in Bangkok, Thailand on April 17-19, 2024.

    Southeast Asian Educators build movement for climate justice and just transition
  7. Climate action and literacy 21 May 2024

    Tonga: Empowering educators for sustainable development and human rights

    The Friendly Islands Teachers’ Association (FITA) is leading a transformative effort to empower educators and promote sustainable development within Tonga's education sector. In March 2024, FITA, conducted two pivotal workshops focusing on climate change, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), trade union rights, and human rights.

    Tonga: Empowering educators for sustainable development and human rights
  8. Standards and working conditions 25 April 2024

    Education International Climate Network: Towards a pedagogy of hope for people and planet

    On April 22 Education International’s Climate Network came together to celebrate Earth Day with an insightful discussion on the reform necessary to foster a pedagogy of hope and quality climate change education in classrooms everywhere. Education unionists were joined by three inspiring activists who are leading the youth movement for...

    Education International Climate Network: Towards a pedagogy of hope for people and planet
  9. Equity and inclusion 8 December 2023

    Fossil fuel subsidies and educational performance

    Zeynep Clulow

    Around the world, companies, NGOs, policymakers, academics and national publics are increasingly calling on governments to phase-out fossil fuel subsidies (FS) - measures that support the consumption and production of natural gas, coal and oil – as a vital step for combatting climate change and building a more just and...

    Fossil fuel subsidies and educational performance
  10. Climate action and literacy 4 December 2023

    Towards a Just Transition in Education: A Strategic Guide on Fossil Fuel Divestment for Education Unions

    Alanah Torralba

    Every year, despite recording ‘hottest ever’ temperatures, the world consumes more fossil fuels than ever before. Consequently, climate disasters also continue to rise in frequency and intensity. In 2022, for instance, a third of Pakistan’s land mass was under water for several months following record monsoon rains and melting glaciers...

    Towards a Just Transition in Education: A Strategic Guide on Fossil Fuel Divestment for Education Unions
  11. Climate action and literacy

    Towards a Just Transition in Education: A Strategic Guide on Fossil Fuel Divestment for Education Unions

    Alanah Torralba

    22 November 2023

    Amidst intensifying climate change impacts, demanding the phaseout of fossil fuels and the acceleration of a just and rapid transition into a low-carbon economy are urgent political tasks. For educators and their unions, a critical step is consolidating a fossil fuel divestment campaign that targets not just the disentanglement of...

    Towards a Just Transition in Education: A Strategic Guide on Fossil Fuel Divestment for Education Unions
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  12. Climate action and literacy

    Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Briefing for Education Unions

    Zeynep Clulow

    22 November 2023

    This policy brief explores the fossil fuels-education relationship by combining the most comprehensive recent data on fossil fuels from the IMF fossil fuel database with educational performance and potential confounding factors from the World Bank World Development Indicators databases, resulting in a dataset of 1651 observations after omitting country-years with...

    Fossil Fuel Subsidies: A Briefing for Education Unions
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  13. Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 4 22 September 2023

    Education unionists strategise action against fossil fuels

    The 9th meeting of the Education International Climate Network took place online on September 20. Fossil fuel subsidies and their impact on education, as well as education union strategies for fossil fuel divestment, and the continued mobilisation for climate education were on the agenda.

    Education unionists strategise action against fossil fuels
  14. Climate action and literacy 17 August 2023

    Pacific educators stand in solidarity for climate justice and a just transition in first-ever climate conference

    Pacific educators affirmed their commitment to climate justice and to advance a just transition during a conference hosted by Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) and the Council of Pacific Educators (COPE) in Lautoka, Fiji on May 23-25, 2023.

    Pacific educators stand in solidarity for climate justice and a just transition in first-ever climate conference
  15. Climate action and literacy 25 July 2023

    From poetic pedagogy to a poetics of pedagogy

    Diana Léocadie, Sydalise Dufestin

    Pedagogy speaks of children. Poetry is addressed to children – the children we once were. In this alliance of words, it may then be possible to find something still unexplored, or something so simple we have not thought of it. Something that would open new doors or paths by giving...

    From poetic pedagogy to a poetics of pedagogy
  16. Climate action and literacy 27 June 2023

    The need to green schools: Climate change and gender inequality at the top of the Global Partnership for Education

    Climate change is a human rights crisis that threatens education and global efforts toward gender equality. Education International (EI) welcomes the Global Partnership for Education’s (GPE) strategy to develop education systems that are climate resilient and mindful of the impacts of the environmental crisis on girls’ education.

    The need to green schools: Climate change and gender inequality at the top of the Global Partnership for Education
  17. Climate action and literacy

    Forging the education–climate justice connection

    Richard Calayeg Cornelio

    31 May 2023

    This study seeks to identify the advocacy and capacity- building needs of Education International Asia Pacific (EIAP) affiliates where the advancement of climate justice is concerned and where climate change education and just transition matters are spotlighted. Our objective is two-fold: (1) to assess the baseline knowledge of EIAP members...

    Forging the education–climate justice connection
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