Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Fall 9-25-2025

Abstract

Education has always been identified as the most potent medium for sustaining long-term climate action by helping students, teachers, and communities understand climate risks and participate in solution building. This literature review will therefore focus on how education helps build capacity and contributes to Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE). As recent reports indicated by IPCC and UNESCO have also highlighted, climate education heightens the level of awareness supportive of green jobs while improving the resilience of a community. However, there is a lack of climate material in most schools with untrained teachers posing a huge gap in the international efforts toward combating climate change. For example, case studies conducted in Finland and Costa Rica show that such educational processes can render creative and practical means, hence offering very helpful hints to other countries. Case studies from Italy and Kenya prove that this process can work effectively by integrating such topics into national school systems. Governments are urged to put climate education in their national strategies for adaptation, training teachers, and fostering place-based learning. The review therefore proposes using digital means and international cooperation for sharing best practices. Education shall not be considered as a support mechanism but rather must have a driving seat in actions towards climate activities. At COP30, negotiators should treat education as the core investment in building up future generations who are capable of leading the green transition.

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