UN CC:Learn Blog Shares Climate Change Learning Impact Stories
The series of blogs feature success stories of people and communities that have been empowered to act on climate change through knowledge and skills development.
1 February 2018, Geneva, Switzerland - UN CC:Learn supports climate change training, education and public awareness-raising through collaborative efforts among of UN agencies and partners. It also supports countries in taking a strategic approach to climate change learning. These efforts are led with the main purpose of achieving results in transformational actions that will hopefully contribute to limiting temperature rise and reducing the vulnerabilities to climate change and its effects.
Since 2011, UN CC:Learn has introduced the topic of climate change to thousands of people by taking innovative digital and face-to-face learning formats on tour around the world. Through the stories posted on the blog, readers will be able to grasp this learning process and know more about how people have become aware of climate change and its effects in different fields, thanks to education.
Upon getting in touch with individuals from the UN CC:Learn network, collecting data, and following their work and initiatives, exemplary stories of leadership are part of the outcome. Each story showcases a unique learning experience and action path, as people are coming from very different contexts and backgrounds.
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About UN CC:Learn
UN CC:Learn is a partnership of more than 30 multilateral organizations supporting countries to design and implement systematic, recurrent and results-oriented climate change learning. At the global level, the partnership supports knowledge-sharing, promotes the development of common climate change learning materials, and coordinates learning interventions through a collaboration of UN agencies and other partners. At the national level, UN CC:Learn supports countries in developing and implementing national climate change learning strategies. Through its engagement at the national and global levels, UN CC:Learn contributes to the implementation of Article 6 of the UNFCCC on training, education and public awareness-raising, and the 2012-2020 Doha Work Programme. Funding for UN CC:Learn is provided by the Swiss Government and UN partners. The Secretariat for UN CC:Learn is hosted by the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR).
Photo 1: A photo from the blog "Behind the Scenes: Filming the first episode of the NAP-Ag MOOC".
Photo 2: A photo from the blog "5 Climate Change e-Courses to Take Today".