Climate Change Education Organisations worldwide

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The Education for Climate Coalition's aim is to 'inspire, develop and draw on innovative European education capabilities.' Its collaborative basis enables ideas, experience and decisions to be shared by both students and teachers and other educational actors.

The Education for Climate Coalition's priorities are to: 'train teachers; bridge education with science; develop green skills and competencies; raise awareness; change behaviour.'

The UNESCO site has numerous resources including research documents, videos and updates from around the world in the field of environmental education. A central aim of UNESCO is to build peace though cooperation in education, sciences and culture on a worldwide scale. Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals as stated in the 2030 Agenda is a key aim.  The UNESCO site is definately one of the key climate change education organisations.

The UNFCCC has an informative document 'Action for Climate Empowerment: Guidelines for accelerating solutions through education, training and public awareness'. The UNFCC  is tasked with supporting the global response to the threat of climate change. It has close to universal membership (197 parties) and is the parent treaty of the 2015 Paris Agreement, which had the main goal of keeping the global average temperature rise as close to 1.5 degrees as possible. The UNFCC is also the parent treaty of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. 

The Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) is active in over 81 countries. Founded over 40 years ago, it provides education programmes such as Eco-schools, Learning about Forests and Young Reporters for the Environment. Their new strategic plan, GAIA 20:30, focuses on taking action to tackle the threats of pollution, climate change, and loss of biodiversity in nature.