The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development covers 17 goals, the thirteenth of which is “Climate action”, namely: Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts.

Under this major goal, there are five targets, the 13.3 of which is “Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning.”

●Current Situation

About the World

Improve quality of education on climate change, consummate policy of green life consumption, and encourage participation of all people!

According to the global survey report “Youth demands for quality climate change education”, 70% of young people questioned the quality of education on climate change they received. 27% of respondents could not explain what climate change is, 41% could only explain broad principles, and 2% knew nothing about it. One in five respondents also said that they were not ready to deal with climate change according to the knowledge they learned in school. 60% of the young people interviewed pointed out that they learned about climate change mainly in the classroom, but they were tired of passive learning and “making posters about climate change”.

Therefore, improving the quality of education plays a key role in addressing climate change. In addition, among the many sources of our lifestyle emissions, the most important ones are travel, housing and food, accounting for 17%, 19% and 20% of the lifestyle emissions respectively. This also means that the above areas have great potential for emission reduction.

We should also take the cultivation of low-carbon lifestyle as an important indicator to improve the living environment and enhance the level of social civilization, widely publicize and advocate the concept of simple, moderate, low-carbon, civilized and healthy life, establish and improve the relevant policies and management systems to promote green life consumption, and form a new situation for all people to participate and act!

Source: unesco.org, nbd.com.cn

About China

Striving to basically form policy system and institutional mechanism for adaptation to climate change by 2025

At present and in the future, China’s adaptation to climate change still faces many challenges. First, the basic work is relatively weak, and the awareness of the whole society to adapt to climate change needs to be strengthened. Second, the governance system needs to be improved, and the working system of “climate system observation - impact risk identification - adaptation action - action effect assessment” has not yet been formed. Third, the existing actions are insufficient, and the ability of key areas and regions to adapt to climate change needs to be improved.

The Ministry of Ecology and Environment will focus on the national strategic deployment, adhere to active, scientific, systematic and collaborative adaptation, work with relevant departmentsto further strengthen the overall guidance, communication and coordination, and promote the preparation and implementation of provincial plans for the action of adaptation to climate change. At the same time, China will actively expand international cooperation in adapting to climate change, fully learn from international experience, and improve the country’s ability to adapt to climate change.

China will strive to basically form the policy system and institutional mechanism for adaptation to climate change and effectively improve the level of assessing adverse impacts and risks of climate change by 2025; By 2030, the technical and standard system for adaptation to climate change will be basically formed, and the adaptation to climate change in all fields and regions will be fully carried out; By 2035, the ability of the whole society to adapt to climate change will be significantly improved, and a climate adaptive society will be basically formed.

Sources: news.chengdu.cn

●Cases

About the World

Egypt’s Ministry of Education and Technology Education comprehensively promotes climate change education

Egypt attaches great importance to education on climate change and has carried out a climate change awareness training of 150 people, with the theme of “improving teachers and managers’ cognitive ability to climate change based on the concept of sustainable development”, and designed training packages for teachers and school managers respectively. In addition to training activities, the Ministry of Education has also gradually integrated climate change-related content into the curriculum system and other education and teaching activities. In terms of extracurricular activities, the Ministry of Education encourages students from all provinces to show climate change issues through art works by holding the “National Competition of Art”, and cooperates with the Egyptian National Museum, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Environment to select works and hold exhibitions.

Source: ias.zjnu.edu.cn

UK issues Education Strategy for Sustainable Development and Climate Change

The launch of the Education Strategy for Sustainable Development and Climate Change is an important step in enabling sustainable development through education in Britain. Through education, priority can be given to children and adolescents who are passionate about the natural world, and they can have extensive knowledge and understanding of the importance of nature, sustainable development, and the causes and impacts of climate change, so as to prepare for positive action. At present, more than 16 million children, teenagers and adults in the UK are receiving education. Their enthusiasm is enough to inspire the whole society to work together to achieve sustainable development.

Source: sohu.com

About China

With the participation of all people, Dali makes China more beautiful

Dali has always practiced the concept of green development, and explored the path of green development, building a habitat for wild animals and plants in its true colors.

On June 5, 2022, Dali held a sharing meeting on the theme of “starting from garbage classification to protect the environment”, and released the MV “Make China more beautiful” (Dali version). The video of four minutes and 20 seconds fully shows the beauty of ecology, nature and harmony in Dali, and expresses the beautiful vision of Dali people to protect the ecological environment and pursue a better life.

Li Libiao, director of Dali Prefecture Bureau of Ecology and Environment, said, “Everyone shares a beautiful home, and we all need to participate in the construction of it. We will continue to further promote the prevention and control of pollution, so that the sky in Dali is bluer, the water is clearer, the air is cleaner, and the soil is safer!”

Source: Dalitvnet

“Together for a better city”- youth action on climate change in Shenzhen

A youth action to cope with climate change named “Together for a better city” is sponsored by the Natural Conservancy (TNC) and the Shenzhen Taohuayuan Foundation on Ecological Protection, organized by the DuckGaga Creative Philanthropy Center, and co-organized by the Tencent Volunteer Association and the Shekou Community Foundation of Shenzhen Nanshan District, with the support of the Asian EnvironmentalInnovation Forum (AEIF).

With the theme of “resilient cities adapting to climate change” and combining the three natural resources of Shenzhen, namely“mountain-city-sea”, the project links schools, enterprises, social organizations and community forces, and is available to Shenzhen teenagers in the form of project-based learning (PBL).Through knowledge sharing, field visits, workshops, proposal collection and selection, thematic discussion, and connection to the United Nations Climate Conference site, etc., it aims to encourage young people to find improving methods from around with innovative methods and ideas in response to the global environmental challenges facing mankind, and put forward action practices aimed at accelerating the construction of resilient cities to adapt to climate change.

Source: TNC

●Background

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Initiated by the United Nations

On January 1, 2016, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including 169 targets, of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development — adopted by world leaders in September 2015 at an historic UN Summit — officially came into force. Countries will mobilize efforts to end all forms of poverty, fight inequalities and tackle climate change, while ensuring that no one is left behind.