In the last couple of months, the Conservative government has clearly made a decision to turn climate policy into a ‘wedge’ issue: rather than present itself as supportive of ambitious climate action and fight with Labour as to who is best placed to meet that, it has...
Category: Climate education
Learning the ABC of resilient and convivial land use: The nexus of Agriculture, Biosafety, and Conservation
Agriculture is interlocked with issues of biosafety and nature conservation (together: ABC). Learning one’s ABC requires a variety of disciplines which, however, rarely link up in a more systemic perspective. What requires further unpacking is the socio-ecology of...
Central banking, climate finance, and contemporary crises
Professor Matthew Paterson is the Director of the Sustainable Consumption Institute and Professor of...
Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education
How can climate change education address rather than exacerbate eco-anxiety, whilst also valuing and learning from diverse perspectives? Following a strong collective youth voice at COP26, climate and sustainability education have become more prominent on governments’...
Hidden infrastructures of decarbonisation
As many of us start to travel again more for work after a couple of years of not doing so, and as the climate crisis continues to unfold further, limiting flying has become even more urgent. For those of us in academia, this is particularly so since air travel...
Why the success of a green recovery requires engaging with – and learning from – minority communities
Although the UK has world-leading net-zero targets, simply setting the target is not enough. Achieving it requires the participation of all sectors of society. However, racialized minority communities are under-represented in mainstream approaches to achieving environmental sustainability.
Education for sustainability, action-oriented research and the value of building bridges
During March 2019 the Sustainable Consumption Institute held a series of activities around sustainability education and hosted Rachel Trajber, Cemaden (National Monitoring and Early Warning and Centre of Natural Disasters).
Victims, saviours or villains? Children in popular climate imaginaries
With the school children’s #ClimateStrike movement reaching the UK, Catherine Walker explores how children are framed in climate change discourse and asks how can children moves us beyond our current political impasse?