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You’re invited: let’s turn classrooms into climate courage hubs – starting 25 June

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You’re invited: let’s turn classrooms into climate courage hubs – starting 25 June

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It's a short one from me this month

I’m writing because the thing we’ve been working towards together finally has a date and a time.

Climate Courage Schools – online launch

Wednesday 25 June · 16:30–18:00 BST
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In that 90 minutes we’ll share stories from the classroom and set out the four shifts we’re asking government to make so every young person can:

  • learn the truth about the world they’re inheriting,
  • have the emotional tools (and teachers who are supported, too) to face it,
  • turn knowledge into hands-on action, and
  • feel they’re in it together – whole school, whole community.

You’ll hear from teachers who’ve see the need for this approach, from young people who are feeling the brunt of the failures of the current system, as well as our advisors Caroline Lucas (the UK’s first Green MP, 2010-2024) and Louise Edgington.

If you’ve been following these updates, signing letters, sending stories: this is where it all lands. We'd love to see you there.

What we're reading

  • This Frontiers in Psychology critique warns that turning climate lessons into “fix-your-own-footprint” checklists heaps guilt on pupils while ignoring the systemic roots of the crisis. It argues schools should nurture a shared ethic of care for Earth and collective action, not police individual behaviour.
  • A Human Ecology study on eco-grief among environmental professionals finds that feelings of loss ease – and often flip into action – when people process them together. Community dialogue and mutual support, not solo fieldwork, are the real drivers of hope and engagement.
  • A new PNAS survey of almost 3,000 U.S. 16- to 24-year-olds finds one in five are afraid to have children because of climate chaos – rising to one in three among those who have lived through severe-weather disasters.

Hope to see you in three weeks' time.

Best,
Josephine

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I'm Josephine Lethbridge, a writer and environmental education campaigner running the Climate Majority Project's Climate Courage campaign. Subscribe to receive monthly stories, the latest evidence and expert opinion on what needs to change in our education systems to allow young people to adapt and thrive in a warming world.

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