Blog
February 27, 2020
On 26 February 2020 I, and forty-six AMAZING students, aged 13 to 26, ran a remarkable event in Parliament to engage our parliamentarians in Teach the Future.
February 27, 2020
The youth-led Teach the Future campaign network in Britain is demanding a new U.K. law that would instruct all schools to teach climate issues.
February 26, 2020
tephen Morgan MP joined a parliamentary climate change event alongside students from across the country, including Portsmouth. The city MP today attended Teach the Future, a parliamentary campaign seeking to urgently reform the education system to focus further on climate change.
February 26, 2020
Students are today taking their education into their own hands and launching a climate emergency education bill in parliament, to call for rapid education reform and with the hopes of gaining support from MPs.
February 26, 2020
I believe that climate and environmental teaching is a vital part of a child’s education. But our education system is not giving students a real understanding of the climate emergency or environmental issues.
February 26, 2020
We are excited to announce the British Youth Council’s support for Teach the Future, a campaign to reform the education system to reflect the severity of the climate crisis and ecological emergency.
February 25, 2020
If radical action to reduce emissions isn’t taken in the next decade or so, many of today’s schoolchildren could live in a world that’s 3℃ or 4℃ hotter by the time they enter their later years. Their working lives would be defined by routine weather extremes, widespread crop failures and catastrophic sea level rise.
February 25, 2020
Joe and Scarlett interviewed on BBC Breakfast ahead of our Parliamentary Reception
February 25, 2020
I have been frustrated by the lack of urgency in the education system. The climate crisis has made it evident that the role of education has never been more important.
February 25, 2020
The climate change protests that swept the world last year, kickstarted by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg, generated huge amounts of coverage and showed that this generation is deeply aware of the ongoing climate crisis.
February 25, 2020
Quakers in Britain have joined education charities, unions and environmental NGOs in signing up to Teach the Future, a youth-led campaign to put the climate crisis at the heart of the education system.
February 24, 2020
"It's educated people who are causing the most damage to the planet," says sixth-former Joe Brindle. Joe, 17, says schools need to put the environment at the heart of education. Ministers agree "it is vital that pupils are taught about climate change" but Joe says schools are failing to prepare them for a climate emergency.