Nursery World - Government announces measures to help nurseries and schools be more environmentally sustainable

The roll-out of training to support maintained nurseries to develop climate action plans is to be accelerated by the Government as part of plans for the UK education sector to become world leaders in climate change by 2030.

Kings Academy Ringmer School in Lewes, East Sussex, a Let's Go Zero school, has been working on becoming more sustainable since 2005. The school has 70kW of panels on their roofs.

Making the announcement today, the education secretary Nadhim Zahawi will outline the part the education sector will play in the Government’s flagship Sustainability and Climate Change Strategy.

Under the strategy, the Government will accelerate the roll-out of carbon literacy training to support at least one sustainability lead in every locally maintained nursery, school, college and university. The training will support settings to develop climate action plans that will bring together and drive activity to improve climate education, put in place measures to protect them against the effects of climate, and increase climate resilience through adaption initiatives.

The education secretary will also pledge greater support for teaching climate change at all levels, along with announcing the acceleration of the roll out of ultra-low carbon education buildings. By 2025, at least four schools and one college will have been built via the Gen Zero Platform – a construction kit of parts to build an ultra-low carbon structure.

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