Nursery World - COP26 Summit: Fight against climate change put at the 'heart of education'

All children will be taught about the importance of conserving and protecting the planet, as part of new measures in education focusing on climate change.

The COP26 Summit is taking place in Glasgow, Scotland

Making the announcement at the COP26 Summit today, the education secretary Nadhim Zahawi will set out plans to empower children and young people to take action on the environment, ensuring a ‘better, safer, greener world for future generations’.

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations Climate Change conference, which is being held in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November.

As part of the education secretary’s plans, children will be encouraged to get involved in the natural world by increasing biodiversity in the grounds of their nursery, school or college by taking steps such as installing bird feeders.

Other measures include:

The measures, brought together in a draft sustainability and climate change strategy, will be built on over the next six months in collaboration with young people, educators, sustainability experts and environmentalists before the final publication of the strategy in April 2022.

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