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.
More than 100 Southeast Asian educators gathered to discuss union strategies to raise awareness on the climate crisis and demand quality climate education for all at the 5th E4SD Climate Justice series last March 2025. The webinar also gave a recap of EIAP’s E4SD activities in Southeast Asia in 2024.
Amidst this year’s record-breaking heatwaves in the Asia-Pacific, educators from the region stressed the critical role that climate education plays in building resilience among students, their communities and beyond during a breakout session at Education International’s 10th World Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina on 26 July to 02 August 2024.
Amidst severe summer heatwaves in Asia, education unionists strategized on union actions demanding effective heat adaptation during Education International Asia-Pacific’s 4th Climate Justice webinar in June.
Women educator-unionists were at the forefront of discussions about the priorities for climate justice in Southeast Asia and the political barriers unions face. In the Philippines, for instance, neoliberal education policies hinder unions in advocating quality climate education for all.
Southeast Asian educators convened to demand climate justice and advance a just transition at a three-day conference hosted by Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) in Bangkok, Thailand on April 17-19, 2024.
Pacific educators led discussions about union perspectives on climate justice and a just transition during the third edition of Education International Asia-Pacific’s (EIAP) Climate Justice series last December 2023.
As part of the Educators for Sustainable Development programme (E4SD), Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) launched its Climate Justice Series in March 2023 with the goal of illuminating upon climate change issues and topics that are relevant to education unions in Asia and the Pacific.
Pacific educators affirmed their commitment to climate justice and to advance a just transition during a conference hosted by Education International Asia-Pacific (EIAP) and the Council of Pacific Educators (COPE) in Lautoka, Fiji on May 23-25, 2023
