The Climate Crisis Disrupts the Education of 40 Million Children Annually, New Paper Finds

The United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) issued an unprecedented Position Paper that draws clear connections between the climate crisis and the global education crisis. The Position Paper calls for continued Support to strengthen Education Cannot Wait’s role in guaranteeing education for all in the face of the climate crisis.

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The paper says that worldwide, the climate crisis is impacting and disrupting the education of 40 million children every year. The paper also points out that 222 million vulnerable girls and boys are impacted by conflict, climate-induced disasters, forced displacement, and protracted crises and require urgent education Support. The numbers come from Education Cannot Wait, the UN global fund for education in emergencies and protracted crises.

Not only can climate-induced disasters affect students’ ability to go or stay in school, but environmental changes can affect their ability to learn. These worsen the cycles of poverty, inequality, and environmental racism.

“Education is an assumed, but hugely undervalued, component of responses to climate change impacts, and efforts to mitigate and adapt to them. It is essential for reducing vulnerability, improving communities’ resilience and adaptive capacity, identifying innovations, and for empowering individuals to be part of the solution to climate and environmental change,” according to the Position Paper.

The paper calls for a shift in how education is viewed in our climate emergency and how investing in girls’ education is a key component to a successful shift.

With the latest IPCC report that says it’s ‘now or never‘ to take action against Climate change, we need to act fast!

Cities all over the world, from California to Vietnam, are facing a climate crisis, and millions of people are protesting all over the world. Studies have shown that eating more plant-based can add over a decade to your lifespan, it can save the world’s forests, it benefits the environment, and it is significantly better for your health! Nations worldwide have urged people to eat more plant-based to curb climate change.

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