Climate Literacy Fosters Effective Climate Action

Ensuring people adequately understand climate change solutions is as important as the solutions themselves

Before delving into the importance of improving climate literacy here in the United States and abroad, we first need to understand why climate education isn’t already a core topic in K-12 education and the obstacles that must be overcome for it to become part of mainstream education curricula.

Ever since the New England colonies were first established in the 17th century, we’ve had a public education system in the US. Since then, the public education system has undergone a number of reforms to its structure, inclusiveness, requirements, standards, and emphasis on what skills and knowledge should be taught. Despite such reforms, public education in the US still lags behind many other nations in terms of learning outcomes, as shown in the chart below.

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