Climate change and education playbook: Investing in education and skills for climate resilience in Asia and the Pacific

This publication explores how climate change impacts education systems in Asia and the Pacific. Climate change negatively impacts learning outcomes, affecting schools and children that do not have adaptive capacities the most. Making education facilities and operations climate resilient is a growing policy priority in the education sector to prevent learning losses, physical harm to learners and teachers, and damage to school assets that prolong school closures.

Education systems need to holistically adapt to climate risks and the skill needs of low-carbon and climate-resilient economies and societies. They need to become climate-ready by (i) teaching transformative climate literacy and green skills across all education subsectors; (ii) adapting school facilities and operations to climate risks toward climate resilience, including disaster risk preparedness; (iii) operating sustainable and low-carbon school facilities and operations; and (iv) promoting climate-oriented research and development, entrepreneurship, and incubations services. These four points form the key action areas for investing in education for climate resilience in the future.