EDUCATION TO ACTION—CLIMATE LITERACY COURSE

DESCRIPTION:
Education for Sustainability has been working with schools to improve climate
literacy and foster behaviour change through action projects across Ireland since 2017. Founder Sue
Adams will deliver a webinar for teachers of both primary and post primary schools that will provide
teachers with ideas on how to embed and deliver environmental education into the curriculum and as a
specialized 8 week climate literacy subject. Sue has worked with schools to create sustainability policies
for Principals and she has delivered award winning action projects with students. Drawing from her
experience, working with students and teachers to implement 44 plastic free schools, planting over 2000
trees, winning 7 Young Environmentalist Awards, this webinar will provide teachers with advice to help
deliver effective and impactful climate education and action projects.

Sue Adams founded Education for Sustainability in 2017 as a reflection of the emerging
decline of the natural world. It is her mission to ensure that the young people of today
are educated about the climate crisis and that they have the knowledge, skills and tools
to take action so they can be informed and empowered stakeholders for the future.
With a background working and studying at Dublin Zoo, she was inspired to create
interactive environmental programmes for schools that focus on improving climate
literacy and fostering behavioural change through community action programmes. She
won the Young Environmentalist Awards Eco Leader of the year in 2017 for her work
with primary and secondary schools which lead on to her work with 44 schools supporting them to
become a single-use plastic free campus. Education for Sustainability executes a variety of educational
programmes such as workshops, teacher training and a transition year Sustainable Development 8 - week
module. She is passionate about empowering young people to be the change that they want to see in the
world through education.