Climate Education - At COP27

Special guests Sophia Mathur, Dr. Deb L. Morrison, and Cathy Orlando discuss the topic of Climate Education with Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

This video was recorded on November 15th, 2022 and published on January 29th, 2023.

Some of the topics discussed:

• How sustainable development goal number four deals with the importance of education and equity in education around the world and how subgoal 4.7 deals specifically with climate education.
• The two big pieces missing in education being the financial understanding of how to deal with the climate crisis and also helping politicians understand this.
• The five key elements of climate finance.
• The evolution of a young climate activist.
• The need to support educators and how to pull climate knowledge into the education that youth are at the center of.
• A wealth of climate education resources and links are shared.
• The need to incorporate the climate idea, the climate lens in psychology, philosophy, biology, the sciences, and engineering.
• And much more . . .

Links:

• Sophia Mathur

• World Trade Organization

• ClimeTime

• Office for Climate Education

• OER - Climate Education

• STEM Teachng Tools

• CLimate Energy and Awareness Network

• Billion Oyster Project

• New York Harbor School

• Fashion Institute of Technology

• Climate Change and Business Program

Special Guest:

• Sophia Mathur - Sophia’s environmental lobbying to politicians began at age 7 and has taken her all the way to the US Congress and the Canadian Parliament with the organization Citizens’ Climate Lobby. She embraced Greta Thunberg’s call for youth climate action in November 2018 and was the first youth outside Europe to do Fridays for Future strikes starting on November 2, 2018. She was trained by Climate Reality and Al Gore in the summer of 2020 and recorded over 100 Acts of Leadership.

• Dr. Deb L. Morrison - Climate and anti-oppression activist, scientist, learning scientist, educator, mother and locally elected official. She works at the intersection of justice, climate science, and learning in research-practice-policy partnerships from local community to international scales. Information about Dr. Morrison’s work can be found at www.debmorrison.me

• Cathy Orlando - Citizens’ Climate International’s Program Director. Wherewith an exceptional team, she creates the framework to empower volunteers to build political will for evidence-based climate action in over sixty countries worldwide.

Regular Panelist:

• Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa’s Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
• Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:

• Charles Gregoire - Climate Reality Leader, Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum

• Heidi Brault - Climate Reality Leader, BA(Psychology), Library & Information Technician Diploma - Video production and website assistant - Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP27 Team Lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum.

Acknowledgement:

We’d like to acknowledge these two organization without which our attendance at COP27 would not have been possible.

• Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)
• The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)

Attributions:

Background Music:

• Title: Through the City II
• Author: Crowander
• Source: crowander.com

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• Image and Video Attributions