The Climate Smart Gap
After Hurricane Beryl destroyed ninety-eight percent of the education infrastructure in Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Grenada's education ministry attended a UNESCO workshop on making schools "climate smart." The technical assistance was valued at somewhere between four hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand dollars for five Caribbean countries. The workshop focused on curriculum development and teacher training to prepare learners for a more extreme, changing climate.
Education systems worldwide are being handed responsibility for preparing 1.3 billion children for planetary catastrophe. But when it comes to the actual resources for that preparation, they're not even in the room where decisions get made.
The Climate Smart Gap
After Hurricane Beryl destroyed ninety-eight percent of the education infrastructure in Carriacou and Petite Martinique, Grenada's education ministry attended a UNESCO workshop on making schools "climate smart." The technical assistance was valued at somewhere between four hundred thousand and seven hundred thousand dollars for five Caribbean countries. The workshop focused on curriculum development and teacher training to prepare learners for a more extreme, changing climate.
Education systems worldwide are being handed responsibility for preparing 1.3 billion children for planetary catastrophe. But when it comes to the actual resources for that preparation, they're not even in the room where decisions get made.
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