Adapting education for climate change: the potential of national adaptation plans

Adaptation planning is at the heart of a country’s response to climate change, forging a path to resilient development to help deal with the setbacks of frequent climate-related hazards.

Key sectors such as infrastructure, water and health are often prioritised in adaptation planning, recognising their key role in climate resilience. Education is also central to a thriving society and is impacted by climate shocks, but has been almost entirely overlooked when it comes to climate adaptation planning.

But that’s changing. The NAP Global Network and Save the Children’s latest research, Education in National Adaptation Plan Processes, explores how countries are starting to prioritise the education sector in their national adaptation plan (NAP) process.

By integrating adaptation into national planning and budgeting systems, the NAP process enables governments to: assess risk; prioritise and implement targeted actions; track, measure and learn from progress; and coordinate climate finance access.

Integrating education within this process is an invaluable opportunity to coordinate, implement and finance climate adaptation across the education sector.

Read the article on the GPE website here.