Monday 9 September 2024
Supporting the education sector to reduce its climate impact and become more resilient
By Amanda Maycock and Zoe Gilbank
Climate Ambassadors are a network of trained volunteers from across the private, public and charity sectors who support nurseries, schools and colleges with free, tailored guidance to progress their climate action plans, wherever they are on their sustainability journey. By helping make climate and sustainability education more widely available to all young people, Climate Ambassador volunteers support the education sector to reduce its climate impact and become more resilient.
The University of Leeds has recently launched the regional Yorkshire and Humber hub for the Climate Ambassador programme. The initiative is funded by the Department for Education to ensure that all education settings across the country can access support when developing a Climate Action Plan (CAP) as part of their sustainability journey. A CAP should cover all four of decarbonisation, adaptation & resilience, nature & biodiversity, and climate education & green skills. It doesn’t have to follow a prescribed template. There is range of support and various tools that can be drawn on to help shape, develop and implement a CAP. These resources will be signposted during the talk.
Venue: The New Headingley Club, 56 St Michaels Road, LS6 3BG
Time: Room opens 7:30, talk begins promptly at 7:45pm
Entry: Donation please for room hire and expenses: £4 at the door
Café Scientifique Headingley is a programme run under the auspices of the Headingley Development Trust
– see http://headingleydevelopmenttrust.org.uk
Our next online meeting will be:Our next online meeting will be:Monday 25th January at 7.30
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