Christina Kwauk teaches: Education Solutions to Climate and Their Cascading Benefits
In this deep-dive session into the education sector Christina Kwauk comprehensively examines the key role of education on human development and its impact on global climate solutions.
Session Overview
Education, especially of women and girls, is potentially one of the most impactful climate solutions and, at the same time, one of the least understood and least funded.
In this session Christina Kwauk makes a case for universal education in climate strategies looking at how climate impacts are gendered, how education builds climate resilience and adaptive capacity, and how education can both address social inequalities as well as reduce lifetime carbon emissions significantly.
Learning Goals
Understanding Interconnected Solutions: Participants will learn about the intrinsic link between education, and climate change, understanding how improvements in this sector contribute to overall global sustainability.
Empowerment Through Education: Explore the direct benefits of educating girls and empowering women within the context of climate solutions and broader societal gains.
Equity and Justice in Action: Recognize the importance of equity and social justice in climate solutions, understanding that vulnerable populations often face the most significant impacts.
Policy and Implementation: Discuss the real-world application of education initiatives in climate policy, identifying successful examples and potential barriers.
About Christina Kwauk
Christina Kwauk is a social scientist with an interdisciplinary focus on education for climate action. She is an expert on girls’ education in developing countries, 21st century skills and youth empowerment, and the intersections of gender, education, and climate change.
Kwauk co-edited Curriculum and Learning for Climate Action: Toward an SDG 4.7 Roadmap for Systems Change and co-authored What Works in Girls’ Education: Evidence for the World’s Best Investment. She has published numerous policy papers, including “The New Green Learning Agenda: Approaches to Quality Education for Climate Empowerment,” as well as academic articles on topics in climate change education, gender, health, and international development and education.
Kwauk works as an education consultant and is research director at Unbounded Associates. She also serves on the Cosmos of Stars for RegenIntel, Girl Rising’s Advisory Council, the International Jury for the UNESCO Prize for Girls’ and Women’s Education, and the Judging Academy for the World’s Best School Prizes.
How to Join
Christina Kwauk teaches in our Foundations Course which runs for 15 weeks three or four times a year. This course is designed to turn you into a regenerative climate leader and equip you with practical, science-based regenerative solutions to our climate emergency and polycrisis.
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