Executive Summary
Our commitment is to comprehensive, unified, research-informed action to ensure that
all Australian young people receive quality climate change education. We are three
national education associations, and we call for the following five actions:
- Make climate change education explicit and mandatory across the F–12
curriculum to support Australian students to be active, responsible citizens. - Develop a conceptual progression of learning, through the curriculum, that leads
to deep engagement with human-induced climate change across all years of
schooling. - Provide professional learning for pre-service and in-service teachers, school
leaders, and administrators to build knowledge, values, and skills related to
climate change education across disciplines. - Develop a national education action plan that prioritises climate action.
- Fund a coordinated program that enables multiple cross-institutional research
initiatives to inform effective climate change education in schools.
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Citation: Shepherd, M., White, P.J., Kriewaldt, J., Forbes, A., Tytler, R., Gough, L., Pan, R., Caldis, S., & Skamp, K. (2026). Climate Change Education (CCE) position paper: A call to action. See
