As a new international study urged people to start preparing for the possibility of a “climate endgame,” the DepEd said it was eyeing a collaboration with experts to improve climate change education, particularly at the basic education level.
From kindergarten to junior high school, topics on disaster risk reduction and management and climate change action are included in subject areas like health, science, Araling Panlipunan and Edukasyon sa Pagpapakatao.
“Time is of the essence. Climate change is an emergency. The time to act is now,” Ronilda Co, DepEd director for disaster risk reduction and management, said at the completion ceremony which took place last month. The training program consists of three subjects: a core subject on the introduction to climate change, a specialized subject for teaching climate change, and a supplemental course for online learning facilitators.The core subject ends with a “capstone project” of a personal/family/school action plan while teachers are expected to come up with a daily lesson log with climate change integration for the specialized subject.
“There are plenty of reasons to believe climate change could become catastrophic, even at modest levels of warming,” said lead author Luke Kemp. “Climate change has played a role in every mass extinction event… The catastrophic risk is there, but we need a more detailed picture.”
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