Climate Stories Project is “an educational and artistic forum for sharing personal stories about the changing climate” where individuals share their own story of how they are aware of climate change in their location. The idea is to use these stories to build a crowd-sourced inclusive and effective movement to confront the climate crisis.

“Climate change is a challenge that few want to take on, but the price of inaction is so high”. This statement marks part of the speech by Ms. Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, Civil Society Representative from the Marshall Islands, who was selected from over 500 applicants to address the opening of the United Nations Climate Summit in 2014.

A short video featuring participants in Eco UNESCO’s Youth Climate Advocate Programme, who explain what they understand by climate justice. This video can be used to introduce the topic of climate justice and generate responses from students about their own views.  

These sets of resources, aimed at ages 9-11 (primary pack) and 11-16 (secondary pack) respectively each offer ways of bringing climate justice into the context through five interlinked topics.

The topics can be used sequentially or as standalone topics. Each topic comes with a lesson plan, incorporating stories, pictures, film and role play to investigate the human element of the climate crisis in age and curriculum-appropriate ways.

A four-part film and lesson series produced by the Fairtrade Foundation. A teachers’ guide is also available to support teachers and educators to use the film series with primary and secondary classes. 

World champion poet and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Emtithal (Emi) Mahmoud’s wrote the poem, Di Baladna, which means Our Land in Arabic, following a series of discussions with refugees living on the front lines of the climate crisis in Bangladesh, Cameroon, and Jordan.