In light of the outcome of the US elections it is even more important to keep in mind that 2016 will be another hottest year on record. As government negotiators, NGO representatives and business delegates are assembling at
COP 22 to discuss taking action to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, we need to ask ourselves what policy measures will be most effective for reaching this goal. For one, we need to speed and scale up the transition to 100% renewable energy to avoid the most damaging impacts of climate change and help address the needs of the most vulnerable. But another part of this work to turn the promises of Paris into action and flesh out what the fine print of the deal actually means will focus on education, specifically
Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).
Why is this so crucial? Because climate change is at its root a crisis about disconnection; from nature, from the impacts of our everyday actions and from each other. In very practical and tangible ways environmental education can resolve this disconnection and deliver real and widespread changes in knowledge, behaviour and on-the-ground action.
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