Resources

This guide gives an overview of the information that is important for individuals and communities to know and understand about Earth’s climate, the impacts of climate change, and solutions. Principles in the guide can serve as discussion-starters or launching points for learning about the climate crisis and what’s being done to address it across the world.

This guide to transformative skills for climate action expands climate literacy to encompass those inner skills, qualities and capacities that help translate scientific understanding into transformative shifts in the way we do things, individually and collectively. The hope is that this guide will help educators, communicators and practitioners equip the whole of society with these essential resources.

A set of recommendations designed to assist educators in developing and implementing effective programs that focus on climate change, address injustice, and ignite action. The guidelines offer suggestions for creating more inclusive and equitable learning environments that support learners as they make informed decisions and take collective actions to address our changing climate.

The primary goal of the toolkit is to provide support to faculty members and instructors across disciplines within introductory undergraduate courses to facilitate the integration of climate justice content and related instructional approaches into their courses.

This page includes justice-centered resources for climate educators, including tools, webinars, assessments, lesson plans, and research on climate justice teaching methods.

This report by the OECD covers the importance of climate literacy to climate action and education, action at an international level through COP and PISA processes, assessment of climate literacy, and key resources and actors.

The CLEAN Collection offers high-quality, digital resources — including learning activities, visualizations, videos, and short demonstrations and experiments — geared toward educators of students in secondary through undergraduate levels.

This hub is designed to be a library of educational resources for learners from elementary school to college about climate change and intersectional topics. These materials are all available under a copyright license that allows for free sharing and customization.

This five-part video series covers a range of scientific topics related to climate, weather, and earth systems. Each episode is supplemented by two lesson plans designed for students in the fourth through sixth grades.

This engaging, asynchronous e-learning course will help you discover key climate terms and mechanisms, prepare you with essential knowledge about hazards impacting your community and industry, and introduce you to effective adaptation and mitigation strategies at regional, national, and international levels. This 1.5-hour course is tailored to your location and industry and equips you to make a real impact in your field.

NNOCCI offers free resources and synchronous and asynchronous trainings to help people who interact with the public speak confidently about climate change in a positive, civic-minded, and solutions-oriented way.

Discover a range of workforce trainings and webinars designed to equip you with the necessary tools, skills, and knowledge you need to effectively manage your climate-related risks, explore your options, and identify opportunities.

Help find the answer to “what can I do to help address the climate crisis?” by using this Venn diagram and accompanying TED talk!

These resources include a paper on climate grief, an activity guide, and materials for communicating and working through climate grief with different audiences.

The “Yale Climate Opinion Maps” (YCOM) allow users to visualize and explore differences in public opinion about climate change and solutions in the United States at the state, county, and congressional district level.

Explore data from 23 countries to see what message frames worked to accelerate climate action. Zoom in by age, gender, political leaning, and more.

This site includes model legislation and toolkits to support efforts to move climate literacy and climate education policy at the state and federal level in the U.S.

The MECCE Project’s database of global climate change communication and education (CCE) supports international and national policymaker, educator, communication, and civil society sector decision-making.

The CLEAN Network provides professional learning opportunities and a supportive network for building climate literacy through formal and informal education.

ECOS is a coalition of community builders enhancing climate change education, communication, and outreach endeavors of the United Nations Climate Change Secretariat, its member states, and sub-national entities around the world. It fosters collaboration and exchange of transformative knowledge and practices; broadens civic engagement; builds capacity; and shapes policy through a cohesive infrastructure for climate action.

This document outlines a vision for climate empowerment in the U.S., weaving climate action, justice, meaningful involvement, and fair treatment into the social and decision-making fabric. It situates education, workforce development, youth action, and climate justice movements within this theory to provide a pathway towards a thriving society.

This recorded seminar, hosted by the Harvard Human Flourishing Program, introduces theoretical and practical connections between inner development and climate action.

This roadmap outlines the idea of planetary health and identifies key leverage points and opportunities for aligning towards a planetary health approach in governance, education, and business.

Published in 2023, the Fifth National Climate Assessment is the US Government's preeminent report on climate change impacts, risks, and responses. It is a congressionally mandated interagency effort that provides the scientific foundation to support informed decision-making across the United States.

The goal of this site is to summarize the most important lines of evidence for human-caused climate change. It confronts the stickier questions about uncertainty in our projections, engages in a discussion of risk and risk management, and concludes by presenting different options for taking action.