A working resource for teachers from Climate In Colour✨

Housekeeping

• Use the toggles to find out more about each resource
• The numbers in the square brackets represent the target age group but this may be flexible depending on your class/teaching style
• This is a working document, feedback and suggestions are more than welcome, please send through any resources you come across to [email protected].

Context

Climate Justice as a practice is not new but the phrase has been floating around more prominently over the last few years. For those of you who may not quite know what exactly climate justice is, here are some useful articles to support your understanding.

• What is ‘climate justice’? [Yale Climate Connect]
• Climate Justice overview from the UN [UN Sustainable Development]
• Climate Justice: The Climate Multiplier in Frontline Communities (New York Specific) [We Act For Environmental Justice]

Motivation

Whether you need support in persuading upper management or board members to see the importance of climate/climate justice education in your school or are yourself unsure of exactly why climate/climate justice education should be focused on at all, then check out these quick articles that break the motivations down.

• Why Climate Justice? [World Resources Institute]
• **Our House Is on Fire — Time to Teach Climate Justice [Rethinking Schools]**
• **Schools Safeguarding Policy Should Consider Climate Change And Eco-Anxiety [Georamblings]**
• It's Getting Hot: Call for Education Systems to Respond to the Climate Crisis [UNICEF]
• Teach The Future Campaign