How to teach climate communication
These links connect to pedagogical and learning resources and ideas for shaping teaching practice.
Courses and degree programs
Can the World Become Net Carbon Zero?
Source: University of Birmingham
Summary: Information about the online LLM in Energy and Environmental Law offered by the University of Birmingham.
Seminars and events
GCRF-Agricultural and Food System Resilience
Source: GCRF-AFRICAP: Events
Summary: The website for the GCRF gives a calendar of its upcoming webinars and recordings of its past events.
Priestley International Centre for Climate
Source:Priestley International Centre for Climate
Summary: The Center’s webpage offers links to its blog and to recordings of its past events.
Teaching materials
Source: The Carbon Literacy Trust
Summary: A collection of resources on teaching climate change in higher education.
Source: UN CC
Summary: Learning resources for understanding and mitigating climate change.
Teaching strategies
Source: National Geographic Society March 2019
Summary: Overview of climate change, appropriate for students in Grades 5-8.
Communicating Climate Change: A Guide for Educators
Source: Cornell University Press 2018
Summary: A practical book for educators, covering a broad set of topics on climate communication.
Notes on how to access: An open access copy of the book can be downloaded for non-commercial purposes from Cornell Open.
Curriculum Gaps for Adult Climate Literacy
Source: Conversation Science and Practice 2019
Summary: An examination of the content of university climate change courses to offer recommendations on how to produce a more climate-literate population.
Media and the Environment Syllabus Guide
Source: Resilience: A Journal of the Environmental Humanities 2014
Summary: A syllabus for a course on Media and the Environment.
UNESCO-WJEC-AJE Roundtable: Reporting the Climate Crisis: Reflections Following COP26
Source: Association for Journalism Education 19 October 2021
Summary: Looks at “how climate change science is effectively communicated through the news media and how it is taught within the academy.”
Journalism Education and Climate Change Expert Report
Source: World Journalism Education Conference, 2022
Summary: Professor Christopher Paterson reflects on how journalism educators can best prepare new journalists to produce high-quality reporting on the climate crisis.