FEE at COP

Find here FEE's participation in COP28 events. FEE was represented by:

• Lesley Jones (President)

• Nikos Petrou (Vice-President)

• Daniel Schaffer (CEO)

• Pramod Kumar Sharma (Senior Director of Education)

• Kristina Madsen (Int. Coordinator of Education)

Events

FRIDAY, 1 DECEMBER

National Road Maps and Framework for Realizing Greening Education Partnership in Different Contexts

🕗 12:00-13:00 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub 👉 Join online here.

Integrating Greening Education Partnership for a Green Transition with a Particular Focus on Nature-Based Tourism

🕗 14:00-15:00   📍 Green Zone, Education Hub   

Climate Change Education: An Early Year’s Perspective

🕗 16:45-17:45   📍 Green Zone, Education Hub   

Implementing the Greening Education Partnership in Higher Education: Collaborations and Initiatives

🕗 17:15-18:15   📍 Green Zone, Education Hub   👉 Join online here.

SUNDAY, 3 DECEMBER

Memory of Glaciers: Witness to the Climate Crisis

🕗 15:00-16:00 📍 Blue Zone, China Pavilion

Thursday, 7 December

Global Youth Voices for Climate Justice (Youth Event with Mock COP and Youth Climate Report)

🕗 15:00-17:00 📍 Dubai Multi Commodities Centre

Register your interest to participate here.

FRIDAY, 8 DECEMBER

Greening the Future: Environmental Education Initiatives in Central Asia, Uzbekistan

🕗 10:30- 11:30 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

Taking Stock of African Climate Action through Concrete Public/Private Sectors & Youth-led Projects

🕗 11:10- 12:40 📍 Blue Zone, Moroccan Pavilion

Climate Change Education for Sustainable Development

🕗 12:00-13:00 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

Boosting Greening Education Partnership

• Session 1: Financing Greening Education

• Session 2: Research to Accelerate Greening Education

• Session 3: Communication and Advocacy for Greening Education

• Session 4: Monitoring & Evaluation for Greening Education

🕗 14:00-18:00   📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

Monitoring, Evaluating and Reporting (MER) of ACE: An Interactive Workshop

🕗 15:00-16:30   📍 Blue Zone, SE Room 5

SATURDAY, 9 DECEMBER

Green Education is the Key to a Sustainable Future

🕗 11:30-12:30 📍 Blue Zone, Uzbekistan Pavilion

Catalysing Skills Potential for a Green Economy in Africa and the Global South

🕗 13:15-14:45 📍 Blue Zone, SE Room 5 👉 Join online here

Education for a Sustainable Future: Empowering Youth and Children as Environmental Ambassadors

🕗 13:30-14:30 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

SUNDAY, 10 DECEMBER

Greening Schools: The UAE Model and Beyond

🕗 10:30-11:30 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

Decade of Eco-System Restoration and the Greening Education Partnership: Advancing an Ecocentric Perspective in Educational Systems through ESD

🕗 14:00-15:00 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub 👉 Join online here.

MONDAY, 11 DECEMBER

Unlocking Youth's Potential in Advancing Climate Action through Capacity Building Programs

🕗 13:30-14:30 📍 Green Zone, Education Hub

Delivering on UNFCCC Article 6: Quality and Context-Relevant Climate Change Education for All

🕗 16:45-18:15   📍  Blue Zone, SE Room 7

The theme of COP 26, ‘Together for Our Planet’ provides an important platform to showcase the impacts being created by the network of FEE and explain how each programme is driving the agenda of Climate Action. FEE has prioritised Climate Change, along with Biodiversity Loss and Pollution, as key areas of urgent action for its 10-year strategy – GAIA 20:30.

Through panel presentations, the event will showcase stories of positive actions from around the world. It will bring together voices of different stakeholders such as youth leaders from Eco-Schools, managers of Green Key awarded establishments, municipalities with Blue Flag accredited sites, and Young Reporters for the Environment. It will connect the global impact FEE is creating through stories of change supported by local examples from stakeholders from the UK.

Keynote – Ms Lesley Jones, President FEE
Session Moderator – Mr Daniel Schaffer, CEO FEE

COP26 hosted a YRE exhibition featuring the work of young people aged 11–25 who had been awarded in the annual YRE International Competition. At the time, the YRE programme was implemented in 44 countries around the world, giving young people a platform to take an informed stand on environmental issues through writing, photography, and video.

The exhibition showcased how YRE students used their voices and journalistic skills to highlight real-life environmental issues and solutions and help create positive change.

The exhibition featured the work of 10 young photographers and their photographs.

Ahead of COP26, Eco-Schools England and Keep Britain Tidy launched a call to action to “Make Every School an Eco-School”, highlighting the role schools and young people could play in tackling climate change and reducing carbon emissions.

The campaign called on educators, parents, local authorities, and policymakers to support greater environmental education in schools. It also advocated for climate education to be more deeply embedded in the curriculum and for Eco-Coordinators to receive greater support for leading youth-led environmental action. More info here

The workshop aims to equip participants with the skills to create stories in Climate Change that will initiate positive action. The event will be facilitated by Gosia Luszczek (YRE International Director). Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader (Directors of Point of No Return) are invited as guest speakers.

Background

As noted in the Doha work programme on Article 6, media plays an important role in increasing public awareness on climate change and encouraging contributions and personal action in addressing climate change. However, the complexity and seriousness of climate change often lead to stories that evoke negative emotions including anxiety and hopelessness which discourage people from taking action.

One way of dealing with this issue is through the use of Constructive Journalism. Within this term lies the idea that media stories should be solution-based and should provide audiences with a fair, accurate and contextualised picture of the world, instead of focusing on negative and conflict-based stories. 

It is important to involve and educate people, particularly youth, in these issues and to increase their ability to create and critically reflect on stories related to Climate Change. Youth Leaders in particular have the opportunity to use media platforms to educate and influence others. Therefore, they should be aware of the power of their messages and understand how to report on climate change subjects in a constructive way in order to initiate positive changes and help build responsible communities.

Objectives

1. To initiate a discussion about the power of media and how stories on climate change can either encourage or discourage communities to act.

2. To unfold how critical thinking and constructive journalism can be used to educate communities on climate change and initiate positive action.

3. To develop a set of principles for how youth can use media as a tool to promote climate change education and initiative positive changes.

Outcome

1. A cadre of young people trained on constructive journalism as a key component of media litteracy.

2. A discussion between different stakeholders on how climate change issues can be presented in media to encourage communities to act.

3. A set of principles for how youth can create stories on climate change that will promote climate change education and action.

4. Practical implementation following the workshop: The young participants will be asked to create two stories during COP; one that applies the principles and one that does not. Readers of the two stories will then be asked to describe the feelings that the stories evoked in them. These activities and learnings will be used to adjust and refine the set of principles.   

Format and Participants

An open training workshop including youth leaders, young journalists, media professionals, educators, climate change experts, and other stakeholders interested in the discussion.

Venue: Climate Action Room 2

Workshop Facilitators

Gosia Luszczek (YRE International Director)
Quinn Kanaly and Noel Dockstader (Directors of Point of No Return).

The aim of the Round Table Discussion is to develop a set of recommendations that is actionable by different stakeholders and will contribute to the implementation of ACE. Daniel Schaffer (CEO of FEE) will moderate the event and Pramod Sharma (Senior Director of Education) along with invited experts will contribute with their knowledge on the topic.

Background

There is widespread agreement that Education is fundamental in order to effectively respond to the challenges we all face due to Climate Change. To achieve the goals set out by the Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE), education has to deliver both; awareness of the dangers being faced due to climate change and action competence to respond through adaptation and mitigation actions. At the same time, the technological solutions to mitigate and adapt to climate change are creating entrepreneurship opportunities and jobs. This requires education to also enable the transformation through equipping people with the necessary skills.

Ms. Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the UNFCCC, identified climate change as a cross cutting issue and emphasized the need to not only study climate change, but to understand it by embedding it in the DNA of today’s very education concept to be able to understand the transformation and to be able to act on it.

Education about Climate Change is challenging. One aspect of the challenge is communicating the complex science of Climate Change and the other is to motivate people to take the actions required to adapt and mitigate for the diverse impacts it is having. The challenge for getting people to act through education is difficult as changes are perceived to be small and gradual and similar to what people have experienced, though in different intensities and frequency in their life time. Since the impacts of actions will not be visible in short time, the level of commitment required for persisting with the behaviours is of high order. Educational messages and processes need to be for diverse stakeholders living in diverse cultural, economic and geographical contexts.  

Education stakeholders around the world who work with various target groups, in both formal and non-formal settings, are taking up this challenge and facilitate learning that leads to Positive Actions! The side event will discuss lessons learned and good practices in CCE. The deliberations and discussions should benefit the review of the Doha work programme on Article 6 in 2020. The session will also deliberate on the monitoring and evaluation of impacts of the educational activities that has been recognised as a challenge.

Objectives of the Session

1. Identify gaps and needs for implementation of ACE.

2. Discuss the challenges based on the experience of Climate Change Education projects/programmes in both formal and non-formal settings.

3. Deliberate upon the approaches of teaching and learning like socio-emotional learning, behavioural change education, project-based learning etc.

4. Identify experiences and learnings both from academicians and practitioners to contribute to a curricula framework that meets the educational rigor for ACE.

5. Suggest key features for an assessment and evaluation framework for Climate Change Educational programmes.

6. Recommendation for Quality Climate Change Education for ACE.

Outcome

A set of recommendations that is actionable by different stakeholders and will contribute to the implementation of ACE.

Format and Participants

A round table discussion with around 25-35 identified experts, representing governments, private sector/business, media, NGOs, researchers, curriculum developers, practitioners, formal and non-formal educators and teachers, climate scientists, policy makers, youth, school/college leaders, SDG champions for each of the SDGs, indigenous communities, etc.

Moderator: Mr Daniel Schaffer (CEO of FEE)
Venue: Climate Action Room 2

Download the Roundtable Discussion Report