Further Resources

Government Policy

Education Nature Parks

The National Education Nature Park and Climate Action Awards (launched in 2023) empower children and young people to make a positive difference to both their own and nature’s future. Children and young people are supported to map, monitor and develop their school grounds to reconnect with nature.
https://www.educationnaturepark.org.uk/

Department for Education – Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy

The Department for Education’s main sustainability and climate change strategy, published in April 2022.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sustainability-and-climate-change-strategy

Green Schools Project

A response, in the form of a blog, to the Department for Education’s strategy on climate change, published April 2022.
https://www.greenschoolsproject.org.uk/2022/02/18/green-schools-projects-response-to-the-dfe-draft-sustainability-and-climate-change-strategy/

Department for Education – Videos for Teachers

Videos for teachers, including details of the National Education Nature Park and Climate Leaders Award.
https://www.youtube.com/user/educationgovuk/search?query=Climate%20change

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Youth and Policy Change

Short video about young people realising the Sustainable Development Goals through policy change.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dzFbPdbqRE

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Webpage introducing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
https://sdgs.un.org/goals

Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans in Education

UK Government guidance about sustainability leadership roles and climate action plans in schools.
https://www.gov.uk/guidance/sustainability-leadership-and-climate-action-plans-in-education

UN IPCC Climate Change 2023

Synthesis report from the UN IPCC, produced by a global community of scientists, calling for urgent global action (published March 2023).
https://www.unep.org/resources/report/climate-change-2023-synthesis-report

Green Queen – IPCC Report 2023 Summary

Article summarising ten key points from the IPCC Climate Change 2023 report.
https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-2023-ipcc-climate-report/

Guardian Summary of the IPCC Climate Change 2023 Report

Article explaining why the IPCC AR6 synthesis report matters.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/19/what-is-the-ipcc-ar6-synthesis-report-and-why-does-it-matte

The National Education Nature Park: how to get involved

Blog post from the Department for Education about changes and active schemes being undertaken to tackle climate change.
🔗 https://educationhub.blog.gov.uk/2025/06/the-national-education-nature-park-how-to-get-involved/

Climate Ambassadors

The Climate Ambassadors programme trains volunteers from the private, public, charity and university sectors to provide nurseries, schools and colleges in England with free, tailored guidance to progress impactful climate action plans.

The project is funded by the UK Government’s Department for Education (DfE) as part of its first sustainability and climate change strategy.
🔗 https://www.eauc.org.uk/about/projects-and-programmes/climate-ambassadors/

Climate Action Plan Resources

A Climate Action Plan (CAP) is a working document for school settings to capture, track and manage the actions needed to reduce environmental impact across different areas.
🔗 https://sos-uk.org/resource/climate-action-planning-guides/

UNESCO report

Report highlighting UCL Climate Action Unit (CAU) methods enabling cross-sector climate decision-making.
🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-action-unit/news/2026/feb/unesco-report-highlights-ucl-cau-methods-enabling-cross-sector-climate-decision-making

Climate Action Plan Guide

A resource guide for school staff and leadership.
🔗 https://sos-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/2025-Student-Led-Climate-Action-Planning-Resource-2.pdf

UCL’s centre for climate change and sustainability proposal

UCL academics have released a policy proposal highlighting the key contributions of subjects to climate change and nature education.
🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2025/sep/how-should-climate-change-and-nature-feature-englands-revised-school-curriculum

Climate Change and Mental Wellbeing

Webpage providing tips on reducing climate anxiety.
🔗 https://warwick.ac.uk/sustainability/getinvolved/takeaction/climatechangeandmentalwellbeing/

The Double Burden of Poverty and Climate – 5 Facts | United Nations

United Nations YouTube video highlighting a report showing how climate hazards are deepening inequality and hitting poor communities hardest.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7bI_q9WST8

Youth-led Action for Climate Change

Promoting youth to strive for change.
🔗 https://www.unicef.org/youthledaction/change-area-climate-change

UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan 2023–2030

Outlines UNICEF’s organisational response to the climate crisis and focus areas for action and partnerships.
🔗 https://www.unicef.org/documents/sustainability-climate-change-action-plan

Child and Youth Action for the Environment

Key resources and toolkits for young people to spread awareness.
🔗 https://knowledge.unicef.org/CEED/child-and-youth-action-environment

University of Reading Research Blog

Climate education proposals to prepare young people in England for changing careers and society.
🔗 https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/2026/01/09/climate-education-proposals-will-prepare-young-people-in-england-for-changing-careers-and-society/

A ten-point plan to deliver climate education

New report setting out ten priority areas for improving climate education following England’s Curriculum and Assessment Review.
🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2026/mar/ten-point-plan-deliver-climate-education

Young people call for climate education that goes beyond individual action

University of Essex article on young people advocating for climate education focused on meaningful collective action.
🔗 https://www.essex.ac.uk/news/2026/01/13/young-people-call-for-climate-education-that-goes-beyond-individual-action

The power of youth in co-creating education

UCL article for International Day of Education 2026 highlighting young people’s role in shaping education, including climate and sustainability education.
🔗 https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2026/jan/power-youth-co-creating-education-international-day-education-2026

Primary school curricula must include a much stronger focus on environment, sustainability and climate change

UNESCO article arguing for stronger environmental and climate content in primary school curricula.
🔗 https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/climate-change-and-sustainability-science-and-social-science-primary-school-curricula

Green School Networks

Eco Schools – part of Keep Britain Tidy

Eco-Schools in more than 70 countries around the world follow the same Seven Step framework, which has been designed to place young people in control of environmental actions in their school, local community and beyond.

https://www.eco-schools.org.uk/primary-pathway/seven-steps/Link opens in a new window

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Green Schools Project

Green Schools Project supports schools to develop an adequate response to the climate and ecological crisis. We help students to lead projects, we deliver teacher training sessions, and we support schools to reduce their carbon emissions with a focus on the learning opportunities provided by this process.

https://www.greenschoolsproject.org.uk/Link opens in a new window

Let’s Go Zero

Schools working together to be zero carbon by 2030 including excellent case studies.

https://letsgozero.org/Link opens in a new window

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Teach the Future

Teach the Future is a youth-led campaign to urgently repurpose the entire education system around the climate emergency and ecological crisis.

https://www.teachthefuture.uk/englandLink opens in a new window

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UK School Sustainability Network (UKSSN)

The networks provide students and staff with a way to connect with peers, share ideas and resources, collaborate on local, national and international initiatives, and develop personal, social and workplace skills.

UK Schools Sustainability Network (transform-our-world.org)Link opens in a new window

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University resources

Sustainability + You

Warwick University has a number of initiatives to support staff and students to live and work more sustainably. Explore a range of groups, initiatives and resources here:

https://warwick.ac.uk/sustainability/environment/gettinginvolved/Link opens in a new window

Eco-anxiety

Part of the Sustainability section of the university website focusses specifically upon eco-anxiety, something which increasingly affects many people, especially young people.

https://warwick.ac.uk/sustainability/environment/takeaction/ecoanxiety/Link opens in a new window

Voice of Children and Young People

Eco-anxiety – Climate Psychology Alliance

A talk by from members of the Climate Psychology Alliance at the Primary Climate Science Symposium (November 21) on why climate psychology is essential in climate education.

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Teach the Teacher

Young people talk about climate change education as part of COP26 – video (1 hour).

COP26 Teach the Teacher broadcastLink opens in a new window

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Teach the Future – website – young people campaign for climate education

Teach the Future is an inclusive, well organised and persistent campaign by secondary and tertiary education students to greatly improve education on the climate emergency and ecological crisis in the UK.

https://www.teachthefuture.uk/visionLink opens in a new window

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Unicef

What does climate change mean to children around the world?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqVIWGknd24Link opens in a new window

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UNICEF

Alexandria Villaseñor, a 14 year old climate advocate, makes an opening speech at a UNICEF meeting in 2019.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLCiXyptdMLink opens in a new window

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Climate Change through our eyes

Children in Year 5 and 6 from All Saints Primary School in Emscote, Warwick, discuss climate change with their teacher Liz Garrett on 10.3.22 (audio recording 19 minutes).

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UNICEF (UK) – 9 out of 10 Children are worried about climate change

A recent report from UNICEF on climate anxiety.

https://www.unicef.org.uk/press-releases/9-in-10-children-are-worried-about-climate-change-finds-new-report-from-votesforschools-and-uk-committee-for-unicef-unicef-uk-2/Link opens in a new window

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UNICEF

Fact sheet article on children and climate change.

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/fact-sheet-cop26-children-and-climate-changeLink opens in a new window

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Scientific American

Children change their parents’ minds about climate change.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/children-change-their-parents-minds-about-climate-change/Link opens in a new window

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TEDX Stockholm

Greta Thunberg gives an 11 minute Ted Talk in 2018.

https://www.ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_school_strike_for_climate_save_the_world_by_changing_the_rules/transcript?language=enLink opens in a new window

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MOCK COP

An international youth led organisation amplifying young people’s voices.

https://www.mockcop.org/about-us/Link opens in a new window

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Education Nature Parks

Department for Education – Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy

Green Schools Project

Department for Education – Videos for Teachers

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – Youth and Policy Change

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainability Leadership and Climate Action Plans in Education

Speak Up! Student Council Conference

Everything the DfE Are Doing in Education to Tackle Climate Change

What Is Climate Psychology?

UN IPCC Climate Change 2023

Green Queen – IPCC Report 2023 Summary

Guardian Summary of the IPCC Climate Change 2023 Report

The National Education Nature Park: how to get involved

Climate Ambassadors

Climate Action Plan Resources

UNESCO report

Climate Action Plan Guide

UCL’s centre for climate change and sustainability proposal

Climate Change and Mental Wellbeing

The Double Burden of Poverty and Climate – 5 Facts | United Nations

Youth-led Action for Climate Change

UNICEF Sustainability and Climate Change Action Plan 2023–2030

Child and Youth Action for the Environment

University of Reading Research Blog

A ten-point plan to deliver climate education

Young people call for climate education that goes beyond individual action

The power of youth in co-creating education

Primary school curricula must include a much stronger focus on environment, sustainability and climate change