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World Environment Day: #LivefromLucy: 'Teaching the future now – is our education responding to the climate challenge?'

Wed 8 June 2022

The climate crisis is a globally-significant concatenation of challenges that will require a vast array of novel solutions, and systemic change. The global nature of this crisis means that it sits at the intersection of innumerable social, economic and environmental issues. This event is interested in how educational providers can meet their societal and moral obligation to provide training and education to the next generation of future leaders to enable them to either meet this challenge or to be part of finding related solutions. This involves students of all ages having the ability to develop critical and analytical thinking skills and other competencies required for systems thinking and action, in addition to subject-specific knowledge.

This event will argue that sustainability and climate change need to be taught across the curriculum, equipping students with the skills and knowledge needed for their future. Teaching the future is a question of acting now; how can you be part of the solution?

Our panel

Catrin Darsley (Education, 2018) has a decade of experience working in operational sustainability and supporting sustainability-related student research projects at a university level.

Sue James, AA Dipl RIBA is a chartered Architect and worked in private practice in West Wales focusing on sustainable buildings in context. She is a founding member and current Convenor of the Trees and Design Action Group which started as an association in 2007 before gaining charitable status in 2013.

Professor Nicola Walshe is Executive Director of the newly-launched UCL Centre for Climate Change and Sustainability Education – an exciting development within UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society that aims to provide outstanding, research-informed professional development for teachers and school leaders across all phases, subjects and career stages.

Dr Amy Munro-Faure works for Cambridge Zero and is responsible for student education, engagement and empowerment activities and the connection between research and operational sustainability.

Emily Vernall is a Campaigner at She Changes Climate; Youth Advisory Panel at Global Center on Adaptation; Future Leaders Network COP26 Delegate.

Please register to receive Zoom joining instructions for this event. This event is free and open to all.

Cost: Free