Five Ways That Education Systems Can Support Girls in the Face of Climate Change, Today

Five Ways That Education Systems Can Support Girls in the Face of Climate Change, Today | Center For Global Development (cgdev.org)

In an accompanying blog we argue that girls’ education is unlikely to reduce future emissions, and that we should not think of girls in low-income countries as ‘assets’ to solve a climate crisis. But there is a link between education and climate change—it’s just the other way around. Children’s and young people’s perspectives are largely missing from the international discussion on education-climate links. We draw on qualitative findings from Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE), the largest global study on adolescence, following 18,000 girls and boys in six countries. In a 2020 study, GAGE teams in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, and Jordan conducted interviews with 788 adolescent girls and boys to understand the ways in which their lives are affected by a changing climate. Here are five ways in which climate events are negatively impacting young people, especially girls, and how education systems can help tackle them.