Climate Emergency: Education for the Future

Climate Emergency: Education for the Future Conference - Saturday 12th Oct. 10am-4.30pm. Regent High School, Chalton St, London NW1 1RX, (10 minutes from Kings Cross station)

A clear demand coming from the young students climate strikers is for an education system which fits the climate emergency. One which gives young people agency in creating an education system which delivers the knowledge, skills and opportunities needed to tackle the climate crisis.

This path-breaking conference organised by the NEU, UCU and NUS aims to respond to this demand. The conference will explore what kind of education system we need, the knowledge we as educators need to deliver and how we organise to get it. The conference will look at how young people and educators work together to plan and deliver this. Teachers and educators will share the  good practise and initiatives that have already been taken in schools, colleges and universities in education, pedagogy and in making our educational institutional sustainable. 

There is a fantastic range of workshops and excellent speakers. 

With activists from the school strike movement, Kevin Courtney (General Secretary, National Education Union), Zamzam Ibrahim (President, National Union of Students), Farhana Yamin (international climate change lawyer, Extinction Rebellion activist), Amelia Womack (Deputy Leader of the Green Party), Professor Peter Piper (University of Sheffield), Labour for a Green New Deal and many more. 

Workshops include: 

  • How to declare a climate emergency at your school or college
  • What does solidarity with school strikes look like?
  • Philosophy for children: Thinking together about climate justice
  • Voices above the coal: Using art to explore extractivism
  • Debunking denial: The science of climate change
  • Building in the workplace: Reps for environmental conditions
  • Heading for extinction? Presenting the reality to students
  • Deeper than oil: Climate change as an ideological issue
  • Campaigning for a Green New Deal 

Practical steps to green your school or college

If you are an educator in any sector from early years to post 16 education and want to be part of making the change we need in our education system to respond to the climate crisis this conference is for you. If you are a young person, parent or activist who wants to be part of changing our education system book your place. 

This conference will be a vital first step in  bringing educators and young people together to use the inspiration form the school climate strikes and the XR actions to organise for change in the educations system.

Book your place and share with your networks. 

Date: 
Saturday, October 12, 2019 - 10:00 to 16:30