TROP ICSU: Climate Change Education across the Curricula, across the Globe
Together with the International Union for Quaternary Science (INQUA) IUBS is the leading the Climate Change Education project TROP ICSU. The project was funded by the International Science Council (ISC) during the first phase 2017-2019.
Importance
Understanding the dynamics of Earth’s ecosystem and identifying measures to sustain it for the future requires immediate action with multidisciplinary approaches. Research efforts to identify key factors that affect the biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services need to be scaled up substantially and rapidly, requiring a whole new generation of multidisciplinary scientists/policy makers/administrators, whose education should start now. Educating forthcoming generations about the causes and effects of global climate change is also imperative as implementing solutions depends on an informed public. In this context, we need to develop education and science communication modules in such a way that every future citizen would be better equipped to identify appropriate solutions for sustainable and equitable development.
TROP ICSU Collection of Teaching, Learning Resources
TROP ICSU's collection of innovative educational resources, with detailed step-by-step descriptions for use in regular lectures, are designed and packaged so that teachers in schools and colleges/Universities across the world can use them to
- introduce examples and case studies from climate science and climate change while enhancing the conceptual understanding of topics in the Sciences, Mathematics, Social Sciences, and other disciplines
- impart interdisciplinary training that is essential for research on climate change.
These teaching resources are locally rooted in their context, but globally relevant for their science.
Links with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
TROP ICSU maps its goals with SDG4 (Quality Education) and SDG13 (Climate Action).
TROP ICSU also aligns with the Action Plan of UNESCO to promote Education for Sustainable Development.
Websites and Contact :
https://tropicsu.org/ ; https://climatescienceteaching.org/
tropicsu@iubs.org