What is Educators for Sustainable Development (E4SD)?
Education unions from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Mongolia reaffirmed their commitment to climate justice and just transition at the ‘Educators Stand for Climate Justice and Just Transition’ conference. The event was organized by Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) in Taipei, Taiwan on April 21 to 22, 2026, as part of the Educators for Sustainable Development (E4SD) program. In its […]
Amidst intensifying heatwaves, cyclones and melting glaciers, Nepalese and Sri Lankan educators are shining a light on social inequalities being exacerbated by climate change through climate justice workshops initiated under EIAP’s Education for Sustainable Development (E4SD) program. In 2025, the Institutional School Teachers Union (ISTU) in Nepal and the All Ceylon Union of Teachers (ACUT) in […]
Delivering quality climate change education for all hinges on governments addressing the persistent challenges besetting education. This means building climate-resilient classrooms, tackling chronic teacher shortages, supplying critical learning resources and providing robust and continuous teacher trainings on climate change—while also upholding teachers’ professional autonomy.
More than 60 South Asian educators gathered at the Educators Stand for Climate Justice and Just Transition conference in Kathmandu, Nepal from April 28 to 30, 2025. The conference facilitated capacity-strengthening and strategizing on national action plans to demand climate justice, a just transition and quality climate education for all.
Across the Asia-Pacific, economic growth continues to be the yardstick of progress and development. Government officials and economists frequently point to a country’s GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the standard measure of the value added created through the production of goods and services in a country during a certain period, to signal its national progress. It […]
Inspired by the “Key Demands for Quality Climate Education for All in Southeast Asia” that was created at the 5th E4SD Climate Justice Series in March 2025, EIAP has published two animated videos tackling the educators’ demands for quality climate education for all and climate justice in the region.
What is heat stress? Heat stress occurs when the body cannot get rid of excess heat. When this happens, the body’s core temperature rises and the heart increases. Symptoms include dizziness, nausea, fainting, confusion, muscle cramps, headaches, heavy sweating and tiredness. Heat can trigger exhaustion or heat stroke and worsen existing conditions such as cardiovascular, […]
The rate of climate change since the mid-20th century is unrivalled in over a millennium. Climate change is the “biggest modern threat that humans have ever faced” (Eckstein et al., 2021). Since 1850, there has been a 1.1°C increase in global average temperatures due to human activities such as burning fossil fuels, deforestation, and the exploitation of natural resources, leaving permanent scars on the planet (IPCC, 2021)
An Advocacy Toolkit on Climate Change Education for Educators and Their Unions
There is a strong consensus that fossil fuel subsidies (FS) obstruct the attainment of multiple sustainable development goals (SDGs) including poverty eradication (SDG1), global health (SDG3), gender equality (SDG5) and transition to affordable, reliable energy (SDG7) and sustainable consumption and production (SDG12).
