Increase climate-literate students

THE Department of Education (DepEd) will strengthen the integration of Climate Change Education (CCE) in the curriculum to increase climate-literate students and teachers in the country.

The DepEd stressed that learners should be able to understand the necessary competencies of CCE.

The overall goal is to make the learners and personnel become climate literate and pro-actively leading resilient and sustainable communities. One of the intermediate results is the curriculum integration, the DepEd said.

According to DepEd, teachers should also have increased competency in CCE, and those competencies should also be strengthened in the media.

Schools and offices should also be able to adapt and mitigate climate change through the planned strengthening of CCE integration.

The intermediate result of this outcome is that policies on mitigation and adaptation are institutionalized, while projects related to climate change adaptation and mitigation are funded, the DedEd said.

The DepEd also cited that the policies include measuring and decreasing carbon footprint, and increasing adaptation to impacts of climate change both passed and monitored.

School and community-based research, likewise, should also be supported and considered for planning under the adaptation and mitigation of climate change mentioned earlier.

To recall, DepEd has been conducting the NCCC annually since 2017, targeting students and school personnel to be aware of the climate change condition in the country.